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Keeping Up Appearances actor Clive Swift dies aged 82
Actor Clive Swift, best known for his role in BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died at the age of 82.
Clive – who played Richard Bucket, the downtrodden husband of the indomitable snob Hyacinth – died on Friday, his agent Roxane Vaca confirmed.
She said: “After a short illness, Clive died peacefully at home this morning surrounded by his family.”
Gay porn star fined £1,000 for threesome on busy tube
A porn star who filmed himself having a threesome with two other men on a tube train in front of passengers has been fined £1,000.
George Mason, 35, Nicholas Mullan, 24 and a third man who has not been identified, had sex on a Northern Line train between Leicester Square and Waterloo stations in July 2017.
The two named men admitted to the charges of outraging public decency at an earlier hearing and both were handed a community order on top of Mason’s fine.
Mother becomes UK’s first person to be convicted of female genital mutilation
A mother of a three-year-old girl has become the first person in the UK to be found guilty of female genital mutilation.
The 37-year-old Ugandan woman from East London was convicted of FGM following a trial at the Old Bailey, after telling the court that her daughter “fell on metal and it’s ripped her private parts” as she had climbed on to a surface to get a biscuit.
The trial heard that ‘spells and curses’ – intended to ward off police and social workers from investigating – were found at the woman’s home. She will be sentenced on 8 March.
Brits would rather live next to Aldi or Lidl than Waitrose or M&S
British people would rather live by a budget supermarket like Aldi or Lidl than expensive rivals like Waitrose and Marks & Spencer, according to a new survey.
Research by property buyer Good Move has revealed that nearly two in five (39%) UK adults said it is desirable to live near an Aldi or Lidl, while less than a third (32%) said they’d prefer to live within walking distance of a high-end store.
