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Sheffield Wednesday avoid further points deduction
19/12/2025

Sheffield Wednesday avoid further points deduction

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have avoided a further points deduction after a panel deemed imposing another one would be “unjust.”The Owls have already been docked 18 points this season — 12 upon entering administration in October and a further six by an independent commission over breaches of EFL regul...

World in brief: December 19, 2025
19/12/2025

World in brief: December 19, 2025

WET WARFARE: Pakistan’s deputy prime minister accused neighbouring India today of “weaponising water” by releasing water from Indian dams without warning, saying the move violates a World Bank-brokered water-sharing treaty and threatens peace and stability in the region.Ishaq Dar made the rema...

Protesters storm the offices of leading Bangladesh newspapers
19/12/2025

Protesters storm the offices of leading Bangladesh newspapers

ANGRY protesters stormed the offices of Bangladesh’s two leading newspapers late on Thursday after the death of a prominent activist in last year’s political uprising in Bangladesh.The crowds set fire to the buildings of the dailies, trapping journalists and other staff inside.Hours later, the j...

International Rosa Luxemburg Conference to address the rush to war
19/12/2025

International Rosa Luxemburg Conference to address the rush to war

THE 31st International Rosa Luxemburg Conference will take place on January 10, 2026, at the Wilhelm Studios in Berlin.The annual event, organised by Junge Welt newspaper, will bring together about 4,000 activists and peace campaigners from across the world, under the title Heading into War – Agai...

Theatre Review: When We Are Married (⭑⭑⭑⭑)at Donmar Warehouse, London
19/12/2025

Theatre Review: When We Are Married (⭑⭑⭑⭑)at Donmar Warehouse, London

When We Are MarriedDonmar Warehouse, London⭑⭑⭑⭑☆JB PRIESTLY wrote When We Are Married in the run-up to World War II, but set it in Edwardian times when he was in his teens and living in a suburb of Bradford. When the play premiered in 1938, he was already a celebrated writer of rock star s...

Two in three ambulance workers fear attacks during festive period, survey finds
19/12/2025

Two in three ambulance workers fear attacks during festive period, survey finds

TWO in three ambulance workers fear being attacked while on the job during the festive season, a GMB survey revealed today.More than 40 per cent feared being physically attacked and more than half are worried about verbal abuse.Three in four respondents said they have suffered a negative impact on t...

Boost justice spending by £400m or face ‘unacceptable cuts,’ warn MSPs
19/12/2025

Boost justice spending by £400m or face ‘unacceptable cuts,’ warn MSPs

MSPs have warned of “unacceptable cuts” unless the Scottish government finds an extra £400 million for justice services in next month’s Budget.In a “stark assessment,” Holyrood’s criminal justice committee considered the effects of a flat settlement, maintaining the same funding in cash...

Reform slammed as further attacks on BAME politicians revealed
19/12/2025

Reform slammed as further attacks on BAME politicians revealed

LABOUR slammed Reform UK today amid a deluge of damning evidence against the right-wing party’s mayoral candidate Chris Parry, who said David Lammy should “go home to the Caribbean.”Nigel Farage’s party has faced calls to drop the retired Royal Navy officer as mayoral candidate for Hampshire...

Glasgow cinema workers stage midnight strike
19/12/2025

Glasgow cinema workers stage midnight strike

STRIKING workers at Vue Cinema in Glasgow’s St Enoch’s Centre staged a midnight picket, as they battle for better pay, terms and conditions.The Unite hospitality workers targeted the nationwide premier of the latest Avatar film, due to be screened at 00.01 this morning in an effort to draw atten...

‘Read the book. Feel every word we wrote’JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collecte...
19/12/2025

‘Read the book. Feel every word we wrote’

JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology

We Are Still Here: Voices from Gaza’s Student GenerationZahid Pranjol and Jacob Norris (Editors), Daraja Press, £14.99ON a Zoom call in late December, Mariam, a student in Gaza, uses her phone camera to survey the rubble and devastation that was once her home: “Yes, I’m sitting at the rubble ...

Theatre Review: It Happened to Me (⭑⭑⭑⭑☆) at Old Red Lion – MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into th...
19/12/2025

Theatre Review: It Happened to Me (⭑⭑⭑⭑☆) at Old Red Lion – MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star

It Happened to MeOld Red Lion⭑⭑⭑⭑☆ PETER LAWFORD is the subject of the one-man show currently playing at the Old Red Lion Islington. And if you’re wondering who Peter Lawford is, you can be forgiven. For despite a life of fame, his name seems now assigned to obscurity.

Victor Grossman, communist US soldier who swam the Danube to defect to the Soviets, dies at 97
19/12/2025

Victor Grossman, communist US soldier who swam the Danube to defect to the Soviets, dies at 97

VICTOR GROSSMAN died on Wednesday December 17, aged 97.The US-born communist was famed for his dramatic desertion from the US army while stationed in Germany post-war, when in 1952 he crossed into Austria, then divided into occupation zones, and swam across the Danube to defect to the Soviet bloc.Bo...

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