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Calls for a bank holiday if Lionesses win World Cup final

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was among those lending his voice to the campaign.

The Independent UK

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, as told by its stars: ‘I still get asked – are you Slaggy Lindsay?’

Fifteen years ago, a British comedy about the pressures of being a teenage girl became a generation-defining hit. To celebrate its birthday, Isobel Lewis spoke to director Gurinder Chadha and many of its stars – including Georgia Groome and Eleanor Tomlinson – about on-set crushes, sneaky fag breaks and coming…

The Independent UK

The surprising way Harrison Ford unknowingly helped get Bend It Like Beckham made

Film’s director, Gurinder Chadha, said Ford had a brilliant response when she finally got to thank him at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

The Independent UK

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The surprising way Harrison Ford unknowingly helped get Bend It Like Beckham made

Film’s director, Gurinder Chadha, said Ford had a brilliant response when she finally got to thank him at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

The Independent UK

Keira Knightley says she was ‘mocked’ for starring in Bend it Like Beckham

The actress revealed that people told her starring in the Gurinder Chadha-directed film was ‘embarrassing’

Evening Standard

‘I’ll do for Bury Park what Richard Curtis did for Notting Hill!’: a tour of Luton’s Muslim district

Leading a group of visitors around the neighbourhood I grew up in seemed a good chance for me to build trust between communities. But gut-wrenching memories kept coming back

The Guardian - UK

Gurinder Chadha: ‘I’ve carved out a whole career by celebrating difference’

The film director, 62, tells Michael Segalov about chapatis and jam, having twins in her late 40s, and her three-year struggle to get Bend It Like Beckham green-lit

The Guardian - UK

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Londoner’s Diary: £100,000 needed to save Dame Judi Dench’s theatre roof

In Today’s Diary: Dame Judi’s leaky roof / Truss’s focus all on No 10 / TfL to celebrate Mornington Crescent game / Bend it Like Beckham director celebrates Lionesses win

Evening Standard

Bend It Like Beckham: 20 Years On review – this lighthearted doc made me rewatch the film (and weep)

In 2002 I felt the movie had nothing to say to British Asians like me, or my football-mad mum. This engaging doc shows how much, and how little, has changed

The Guardian - UK

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