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This Morning presenter Alison Hammond has returned home from hospital after leaving Friday's show, saying she believes she suffered a panic attack.
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Obituary of John Iliffe, pioneering historian of Africa who died aged 87, whose work including The African Poor: A History (1987) won the African Studies Association's Herskovits prize and centred African testimonies.
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British singer Olivia Dean's record label is being sued over alleged similarities between her song 'I've Seen It' and Bill Withers' classic 'Just The Two of Us'.
Read full story ↗The Oxford English Dictionary has added more than a dozen words long used in Bermuda and across the Caribbean, including 'vex money' and 'bimpert', a Bermudian term for a stupid or foolish person.
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Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood, 68, has been charged with two further offences: indecently assaulting a girl aged 16 or 17 in Hammersmith and Fulham in 1991 and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in 2004. He will appear at Westminster magistrates court on a date to be fixed.
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British rapper Sway, known for hits including Still Speedin' and Level Up, has died aged 44. He was living in Ghana at the time of his death.
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British rapper Sway, who won the Mobo award for best hip-hop act in 2005 as the first unsigned artist to do so, has died aged 44. The Mobo awards announced the news, paying tribute to his legacy and influence on Black British music.
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Olu Jacobs, one of Nigeria's most recognised actors with a career spanning several decades, has died aged 84.
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British-American novelist, playwright and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer has died aged 77 after a brief illness, her husband David Hutchins said. She was a regular on UK current affairs programmes.
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British-American author, playwright and cultural and political commentator Bonnie Greer has died aged 77. Her husband said she died after a brief illness.
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A comment piece by William Pettigrew argues that slavery was central, not marginal, to British history, citing the Register of British Slave Traders as evidence of how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in Britain's politics, economy, institutions and culture.
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