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Australian entertainer Barry Humphries has died at the age of 89, a spokesman for the hospital where he was being treated has confirmed. During a seven-decade career, the stage and screen veteran entertained generations with satirical characters including Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. Humphries died on Saturday evening, according to David Faktor, a spokesman for St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. He told the PA news agency: “I can

The Government has issued a “blatant threat” by taking legal action over a planned 48-hour strike by nurses in the long-running dispute over pay, a union leader has said. Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members working in the NHS in England at workplaces with a strike mandate are preparing to take industrial action from 8pm or the start of the night shift on April 30 until 8pm or the start

Two Just Stop Oil protesters who scaled a bridge on the Dartford Crossing, causing gridlock when police closed the bridge to traffic, have both been jailed as the judge stressed he wanted others to be deterred from copying them. Morgan Trowland, 40, and 34-year-old Marcus Decker used ropes and other climbing equipment to scale the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which links the M25 in Essex and Kent. Prosecutor Adam King

The world’s fastest marathon runner has said Tower Bridge is his favourite landmark in the London Marathon and that the race “is like my home”. Speaking to children at Cubitt Town Primary School in east London ahead of this year’s event on Sunday, Eliud Kipchoge also said listening to Kelly Clarkson’s hit Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) motivates him to run faster. The 38-year-old Kenyan athlete won the TSA London

England captain Leah Williamson will miss this summer’s World Cup after rupturing her anterior cruciate knee ligament. Arsenal confirmed the worst fears around the injury the 26-year-old suffered during Wednesday’s Women’s Super League defeat by Manchester United. The Gunners said in a statement: “Leah will now begin a period of rehabilitation and is set for an extended spell on the sidelines. She will undergo surgery in due course. “Everyone at