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Ali Jalilvand, who has died aged 66 after a short illness, was a highly popular Iranian-Irish fish merchant and Galway ...

Making a statement on the events at Cook’s trial, George Harding, one of Bingham Baring’s men, said that Cook’s sledge-hammer fell on the brim of Baring’s hat and then landed on his “collar” and ...

Janine said: "If you live in a tourist hotspot like the French Riviera, English is fairly widely spoken and in ... Janine is ...

The Lord of the Rings, an epic tale of good and evil, was published in 1954, when ‘good’ as a noun was used 0.00416% of the time – a rate almost twice that of 2022. Mr. Tolkien’s worldview was very ...

When Daniel Mercier treats himself to a nice dinner while his wife and children are out of town, he finds himself sat next to ...

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Williams said, “As an artist, who was literally born and raised in the shadow, where the African diaspora expanded into the ...

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