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'Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink, they retain the right to say no' - Judge Bennathan

We are so much stronger together. We can overcome anything. Hate and fear have no place here. Love is winning. The people have spoken. If anyone knows who this is, please let me know so I can tag them. Watch til the end

Wow. This is amazing! The incoming House Oversight Committee chairman @RobertGarcia just outlined the four main investigations that Democrats will be opening when they take back the house in January. It’s about time!!

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a blunt message to Russia: “You cannot bomb Ukrainian cities and then send your junior players to Alberta to play hockey as if you were civilised people. No Russian or Belarusian teams at the World Junior Championship. Not under your flags. Not under any other flags. Period.”

NEW: West Midlands Police has confirmed that a 14-year-old boy has handed himself in after an investigation was launched into yesterday's Bradley Lowery fan taunt at Coventry.

Today at the CBS Arena, as Coventry took on Sunderland, one Coventry fan decided to taunt Sunderland away fans with a picture of the late Bradley Lowery. Absolutely disgusting behaviour, and I really hope Coventry are able to find out who this lad is and ban him for life. All for a bit of banter, taunt the Sunderland fans with a Newcastle badge, or the Nissan logo, but going as low as using young Bradley to try and get at the Sunderland fans is the lowest thing I think I have ever seen at a Premier League stadium. This is absolutely disgusting, and this lad should be ashamed of himself. teapawt.net/RokerReport/status/211…

SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026) Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love. We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway. America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire. His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen. Ian McKellen 29 October 2026 Photo: University of Huddersfield