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Bill Maher Pitches Anthony Weiner to Liberals: – We Need OUR…

Bill Maher rallied the liberal troops Friday night, hoping to generate a little excitement on the left by summoning their own “loudmouth, kick ass New Yorker who is up all night on social media” aka Anthony Weiner or Eliot Spitzer. “If the new normal is a president who has bragged about sexual assault and walking in on naked teenage beauty pageant contestants and who has spoken lustfully about his own daughter and once said of a fifth grader, ‘I’m going to date her in 10 years,’ tell me again why someone like Eliot Spitzer is so terrible,” Maher said on Friday night’s “Real Time.”

Great Yeldham firm plays its part in new ITV crime drama

A prequel to the hit TV drama Prime Suspect gets underway on ITV One tonight and will feature three cars owned by one man well known to many in Haverhill. Called Prime Suspect 1973, the crime drama heads back to the title year and the start of the police career of the central character, Jane Tennison.

Katherine Jackson ‘is refusing to return to Los Angeles’

Katherine Jackson is so afraid of her nephew-in-law Trent Lamar Jackson she is refusing to return home to Los Angeles. The 86-year-old matriarch – who is the mother of the late Michael Jackson – has told a court she is currently “under a doctor’s care” in London, England, “in part because of the stress this situation with Trent is causing me”.

ITV’s Loose Women reported to Ofcom over Linda Robson jibe about ‘poor’ town

The Birds of a Feather star made the comments as the panel were discussing a woman who was prosecuted for pocketing A 20 she found on the floor in Stoke-on-Trent ITV’s Loose Women has been reported to Ofcom after panellist Linda Robson appeared to describe residents of Stoke-on-Trent as “poor”. Birds of a Feather star Linda commented that the One Stop store where the incident occurred looked “poor” and that its customers “didn’t have a lot of money”.

Author Helen Bailey’s partner jailed for 34 years for murder

In this file photo dated July 18, 2016, showing tributes left outside the home of children’s author Helen Bailey in Royston, England, as police investigations continue at the property. The jury found Ian Stewart, the partner of Helen Bailey, guilty of killing her and dumping her body in a cesspool at her home, in a financially motivated murder.

Partner of UK author Helen Bailey convicted of her murder

In this undated image made available Wednesday Feb. 22, 2017, by Hertfordshire Constabulary, showing Ian Stewart who has been found guilty of the murder of children’s author Helen Bailey at St Albans Crown Court, on Wednesday Feb. 22, 2017. The jury found Ian Stewart, the partner of Helen Bailey, guilty of killing her and dumping her body in a cesspool at her home, in a financially motivated murder.

The final – and not-so-final – resting places of the Hollywood greats

Hello again playmates and are you, like me, fed up with this cold weather that causes muscles that you had forgotten you had to ache? Well, I have selected a chosen few readers, and that includes you, to board my private jet so we can do our walk down Memory Lane in the warmth of Los Angeles. Before you know where you are you will be working out with me on Venice Beach and strolling down Sunset Strip.

Study: Most drivers, not just young, are taking risks

28, 2010 file photo shows a stop sign camera at the Top Of Topanga overlook in Topanga, Calif. Well over half of drivers in every age group have texted behind the wheel, run a red light or driven faster than the… Hundreds of people at an emergency shelter watched a broadcast as the sheriff said people could return to their homes because the danger from a damaged dam spillway had lessened.

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Centring around a true story about going through a breakup, Syston’s Rachel Parris is really baring her soul in her latest show, Best Laid Plans, which she’s bringing to the Leicester Comedy Festival tonight. It may be easy to chat about her personal life during gigs in London or Edinburgh but back in the county in which she grew up, where the audience may contain people she was at school with? Well, that’s a challenge.

Star Wars actor’s ‘top secret’ project in Bury St Edmunds is revealed

A ‘top secret’ project involving Star Wars legend Warwick Davis in Bury St Edmunds last year has finally been revealed. The popular actor, who is best known for playing Wicket the Ewok in the sci-fi franchise, was spotted filming at the town’s Athenaeum last May. At the time, he had to keep the nature of the project close to his chest and told the Bury Free Press: “My life is the life of a secret agent, I can’t even tell my family what I’m up to.”

London cheaper than ever

If you’ve never been to London – or if it’s been a while since your last visit – now’s the time to go. The dollar is strong, airfare is cheap and, because it’s winter, the city isn’t filled with tourists.

A-list celebs out in force for anti-Trump women’s marches

If you wondered where many of Hollywood’s A-list celebrities had gone during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, you didn’t have to wonder any longer on Saturday, when scores of them showed up at women’s marches in Washington and other cities to send the new president a pointed message that he was in for a fight – and that, as so many signs said, women’s rights are human rights. Madonna, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson, Cher, Alicia Keys, Emma Watson and Patricia Arquette were just a few of those at the march in Washington, where officials said the crowd could number more than half a million.

A-list celebs out in force for anti-Trump womena s marches

If you wondered where many of Hollywood’s A-list celebrities had gone during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, you didn’t have to wonder any longer on Saturday, when scores of them showed up at women’s marches in Washington and other cities to send the new president a pointed message that he was in for a fight – and that, as so many signs said, women’s rights are human rights. Madonna, Julia Roberts, Scarlett Johansson, Cher, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, Emma Watson, Amy Schumer and Jake Gyllenhaal were just some of those at the march in Washington, where officials said the crowd could number more than half a million.

Royal Navy removes WWII bomb from River Thames in London

A police officer outside Embankment tube station in central London stops pedestrians from using the Hungerford Bridge, as a suspected unexploded World War II bomb has been found in the River Thames, forcing the closure of W… . Shutters close off one of the exits of Charing Cross station in London, as a suspected unexploded World War II bomb was found in the River Thames, forcing the closure of Waterloo and Westminster bridges Thursday Jan. 19, 2017.

Epix to Premiere Documentary Election Day: Lens Across America, 1/17

Premium TV network EPIX announced today that the EPIX Original Documentary ELECTION DAY: LENS ACROSS AMERICA from Emmy and Peabody Award Winning Blumhouse Television and directors Emma Tammi and Henry Jacobson will make its world television premiere on Tuesday, January 17 at 8/7C. The timely documentary weaves together the stories behind the work of seven photographers as they cover one of the most surprising election days in American history, each from a different perspective and location.

Hat-trick of Bafta nominations for film co-directed by former Norwich University of the Arts student

A film co-directed by a former Norwich University of the Arts student has received a hat-trick of Bafta nominations. Notes on Blindness – co-directed by former NUA student Peter Middleton and fellow filmmaker James Spinney who has links to King’s Lynn – is one of five movies in the running for Outstanding British Film in this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards.

Lights, camera, laughs for Maxine Peake’s new role

Funny Cow will star Maxine, who is a former pupil of Westhoughton High School, as a comedienne trying to make it in the all-male world of stand-up clubs in the 1970s and 1980s. Directed by award-winning director Adrian Shergold, the comedy-drama also stars a host of big names including film and television actor Paddy Considine, Boardwalk Empire and This is England’s Stephen Graham, comedian Vic Reeves and pop band Dexys Midnight Runners frontman Kevin Rowland.

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George Michael achieved pop music success, but freedom eluded him

A drawing is left with flowers and tributes outside the Oxfordshire home of British pop singer George Michael on December 26, 2016 in Goring, England. Singer George Michael died on Christmas day in his country home in Oxfordshire at the age of 53 on December 25. A drawing is left with flowers and tributes outside the Oxfordshire home of British pop singer George Michael on December 26, 2016 in Goring, England.

George Michael achieved pop music success, but freedom eluded him

A drawing is left with flowers and tributes outside the Oxfordshire home of British pop singer George Michael on December 26, 2016 in Goring, England. Singer George Michael died on Christmas day in his country home in Oxfordshire at the age of 53 on December 25. A drawing is left with flowers and tributes outside the Oxfordshire home of British pop singer George Michael on December 26, 2016 in Goring, England.

The One Show host Alex Jones: ‘I was a terrible looking child, my…

The One Show host Alex Jones: ‘I was a terrible looking child, my younger self would be chuffed with how I turned out’ Alex Jones attends the After Party dinner for the House of Fraser British Academy Television Awards at The Grosvenor House Hotel on May 10, 2015 in London, England. Alex Jones attends the After Party dinner for the House of Fraser British Academy Television Awards at The Grosvenor House Hotel on May 10, 2015 in London, England.

Zara and Mike Tindall lose their baby

Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall attend an evening reception for the ISPS Handa Mike Tindall 3rd annual celebrity golf classic at The Grove Hotel on May 8, 2015 in Hertford, England. Mike Tindall and Zara Phillips at the 2016 Marks & Spencer Ireland Marie Keating Foundation Celebrity Golf Classic.

Prince William Meets Michael Phelps, Promptly Makes a Dad Joke About Being Dads

Prince William presented Michael Phelps with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year event in Birmingham, England, on Sunday, and took time to joke with the Olympic gold medalist about fatherhood after the ceremony. Michael introduced the prince to his new wife, Nicole Johnson , and revealed that their London trip marked the first they’ve taken without their 7-month-old son , Boomer.

New subway station has public art rarely seen: A gay couple

The sight of two men holding hands is far from uncommon, but a mural of two men doing just that is showing up in an unusual place – on the walls of a new subway station in New York City. “It was like winning the lottery,” Thor Stockman, 60, said of finding out that he and his husband of 3 A1 2 years, Patrick Kellogg, were going to be part of artist Vik Muniz’s “Perfect Strangers,” a series of life-size mosaic portraits of everyday New Yorkers gracing the walls of the new subway station at 72nd Street.