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Letter: Patricia Greene obituary

Sean O’Connor writes: She was thrilled, then completely stunned to be offered the lead role in the film

The Guardian - UK · Jul 16

‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock

‘A potential US distributor,’ recalls director Peter Weir, ‘supposedly threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of the film, saying, “So whodunnit?” He felt he’d wasted a couple of hours’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2025

Those early Zoom meetings got people fired up for Harris. Now they're trying to get them to vote

Kamala Harris' candidacy generated a burst of enthusiasm through Zoom meetings this summer

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2024

A view of the Kentucky legislative future from lawmakers leaving the House and Senate Chambers

The 2024 Kentucky General Assembly session will mark the end of public service, at least for now, for a number of senators and representatives. Several members of both chambers have opted to not seek re-election when their term concludes this year.

WEKU · Jan 3, 2024

Shirley Anne Field: a smart and seductive key player in the British New Wave

Appearing in many of the landmark gritty dramas of the era, the actor, who has died aged 87, stood out for portraying vulnerability combined with a canny intelligence

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2023

Unions and teachers call Rishi Sunak’s new education plan ‘a misdirected fantasy’

Scrapping A-levels and making English and Maths compulsory to 18 said to be unworkable due to recruitment crisis in subject areas

The Guardian - UK · Oct 8, 2023

Schools across England face unprecedented struggle to hire English teachers as recruitment crisis grows

Headteachers say situation is critical as they try to fill vacancies for September

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2023

‘I like to go on solo adventures’: Guardian readers on single life

The Church of England recently pointed out Jesus was single in a report calling for single people to be more valued by society

The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2023

Abortion bills gain no ground in Kentucky with ban in place

Abortion-rights supporters in Republican-leaning Kentucky thought they had finally achieved a breakthrough when voters in November defeated a measure aimed at denying any constitutional protections for abortion

The Independent UK · Apr 3, 2023

Last-minute move revives ban on gender-affirming care for Kentucky youth. House OKs it

FRANKFORT, Ky. — In a last-minute switch Thursday, Republicans revived an omnibus anti-LGBTQ bill, which includes a ban on gender-affirming health care for Kentucky’s transgender youth.

Tribune News Service · Mar 16, 2023