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Bafta TV Award nominations revealed as Adolescence leads field

BBC Entertainment Mar 24, 2026

Adolescence has the most nominations overall with 11, followed by A Thousand Blows with seven.

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Bafta Television Awards 2026: The nominations in full

BBC Entertainment Mar 24, 2026

Find out which shows and stars have been rewarded with nominations for this year's Bafta TV Awards.

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Sheffield Crucible theatre to get £45m revamp and keep snooker championships

BBC Entertainment Mar 24, 2026

The World Snooker Championship will remain at the Crucible in Sheffield until 2045, with the venue set to be refurbished to add up to 500 additional seats.

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Hannah Montana fans celebrate 20 years of 'once in a generation' show

BBC Entertainment Mar 24, 2026

Miley Cyrus stars in a one-off special celebrating the TV show that made her a global star.

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Married at First Sight star Mel Schilling dies at 54

BBC Entertainment Mar 24, 2026

The TV dating coach's husband says she "passed away peacefully today, surrounded by love".

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Dame Shirley Bassey reveals she can no longer reply to fan mail

BBC Entertainment Mar 24, 2026

The singer, 89, said she was 'truly humbled' by the letters she had received during her 70-year career.

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TV's Repair Shop rejects 'inappropriate' Bob Monkhouse joke book

BBC Entertainment Mar 24, 2026

The book "contained many jokes that were not appropriate for a programme", the show's producers say.

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Colorado’s Tamale Act may decide whether home cooks can build a business

Washington Post Mar 24, 2026

An eclectic coalition, including the MAHA call for “food freedom,” gave the law a second chance as backers push for immigrant assistance and entrepreneurship.

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Morning news brief

NPR Mar 24, 2026

Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war in Iran, postponing threatened strikes on its power plants, but Iran denies such talks happened; ICE agents were deployed to U.S. airports Monday.

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Trump takes aim at windmills despite increasing energy costs

NPR Mar 24, 2026

President Trump's mission to fight renewable wind energy comes at a time of rising energy costs.

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At least 66 killed in military plane crash in Colombia, head of armed forces says

NPR Mar 24, 2026

Colombian officials say that a military cargo plane with 128 people on board, most of them soldiers, crashed shortly after taking off Monday in southwestern Colombia.

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UK police probe possible Iran link after Jewish charity ambulances set on fire

NPR Mar 24, 2026

Police in London are investigating a suspected antisemitic hate crime attack after four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service were set on fire.

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Despite state bans and restrictions, the number of abortions in the U.S. holds steady

NPR Mar 24, 2026

The Guttmacher Institute has a new analysis on how many abortions happened in 2025.

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Markwayne Mullin confirmed as the next secretary of Homeland Security

NPR Mar 24, 2026

The Oklahoma Republican comes to the helm in the midst of a shutdown that has left some 100,000 of the department's more than a quarter-million employees working without pay.

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Senate confirms Mullin as Homeland Security secretary

Washington Post Mar 24, 2026

The Oklahoma Republican portrayed himself as an experienced lawmaker ready to restore DHS’s credibility after a surge in immigration enforcement resulted in the killing of two U.S. citizens.

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Jury orders Cosby to pay $19m to ex-waitress after finding he abused her in 1972

BBC Entertainment Mar 23, 2026

Donna Motsinger alleged Cosby gave her wine and a pill that left her incapacitated after picking her up in a limousine in 1972.

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Supreme Court says police officer is immune from misconduct claim by protester

Washington Post Mar 23, 2026

The court, in an unsigned opinion, shielded a Vermont police officer from a claim that he used excessive force on a protester during a 2015 sit-in at the state’s capitol.

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