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Georgina Clarke Pride month is the celebration of those who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community. During this time, people come together to show how far gay rights have come and what work must continue to be done to result in full equality globally. ..
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Rowan Gibson is a global business strategist, a bestselling author and an expert on radical innovation. He is also one of world’s most in-demand business speakers. Rowan has just published his latest online column looking at innovating our healthcare systems and rethinking and improving the way things are done.
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Did someone forget to tell shoppers there's a recession on? If you went out shopping this bank holiday weekend, the chances are you were part of a throng - the number of visits to shops is rising at its strongest rate in five years and retail sales are going up, despite mounting unemployment. Over in the housing market, once-desperate estate agents are...
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The BBC Radio 4 panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is to return with Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon sharing the presenter's chair, a year after the death of Humphrey Lyttelton. Recording began in April and the first shows will be broadcast in June. Humphrey Lyttleton died in April 2008, aged 86, he had hosted the show since its beginning in 1972.
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25 year old Helen Skelton has recently completed the Namibian Ultra Marathon hailed as one of the toughest races in the world. Helen had to run all 78 miles, the equivalent of three normal marathons in one day as part of a Blue Peter Challenge. She experienced temperatures of up to 45 degrees centigrade in the race that took her 23 hours and 50 minutes to complete. She is only the second woman ever to complete the race, having only ever taken part in fun runs before she started her training.
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Charles Hazlewood's new series 'The Birth of British Music' starts on BBC2 on 9th May. This four part series, authored and conducted by Charles Hazlewood with his orchestra, Army of Generals tells the stories of four great composers who have shaped the British musical landscape; Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelsohn and asks what does British music say about what it is to be British?
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For the second year running, Harry Hill has taken the coveted best entertainment performance prize at the Bafta TV Awards. Other notable winners included David Attenborough who won the specialist factual programme award for 'Life in Cold Blood' and David Mitchell won the best comedy performance category for 'Peep Show'. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders were presented with the Fellowship, the Academy's highest accolade, in recognition of their popular shows together and their individual programmes such as "The Vicar of Dibley."
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The British and Irish Lions are a sporting phenomenon, an All-Star team combining the best of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland for tours once every four years, going in rotation to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Later this year, Paul O'Connell will lead the team in their tour of South Africa.
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Tonight on Channel 4 Kirstie gets all credit crunchy when she buys a house that's a complete wreck in Devon and invites us to join her as she does it up. So if you can't sell and you can't buy, Kirstie encourages us to renovate renovate, renovate - and she promises you can do it on the cheap!
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We may not be entering another Great Depression, but it's a little early for David Miles to be announcing that the only way is upNear the bottom of the last recession in the autumn of 1991, the chancellor, Norman Lamont, commented that he could see the "green shoots" of economic recovery. Although this proved to be broadly accurate, since the economy...
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Business keynote speaker and entreprenuer, Luke Johnson has been appointed chair of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for 2009.
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There can be no return to the national idyll. It is in all our interests for states to now abandon their nostalgic self-delusionStanding amid the debris of a Europe morally, politically and physically devastated by the second world war, Winston Churchill enthused in 1946: "If Europe were once united ... there would be no limit to the happiness, to the...
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ITV's reality show Hells Kitchen where two celebrity teams of aspiring chefs compete for a final prize begins next week. Claudia Winkleman has taken over from Angus Deayton presenting this years series and the three Michelin-starred chef Pierre Marco White will choose who gets fired from the kitchen in the early rounds......