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FRESH from her Emmys success, the Fleabag creator, right, has signed a three-year deal with Amazon reported to be worth £50m to make and produce new shows exclusively for Amazon Prime Video.
THE big-screen outing for ITV’s period drama beat both Brad Pitt’s Ad Astra and Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo: Last Blood at the US box office in its opening weekend. The movie raked in around £25m in America in the first three days.
A URINE test which can diagnose one of the most deadly forms of cancer has been developed by scientists at Queen Mary University, London. It could increase survival rates for those diagnosed while their tumour is still small to 60%.
FOLLOWING its decision that Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was ‘unlawful’, the 74-year-old leader fo the Supreme Court, who delivered the ruling, became a social media star.
The Leeds-born judge has been called the ‘Beyoncé of the legal world’ and spider brooches are now a fashion must-have. THIS week saw music fans flock to Detroit to mark the 60th anniversary of the legendary Motown label.
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Featuring classic hits from Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine, to Diana Ross’ Ain’t No Mountain High Enough and The Temptations’ Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone, it is available at Amazon now priced £4.90. THE Metropolitan Opera this week ended its 51-year relationship with the worldfamous tenor following multiple allegations of sexual harassment from women. The singer denies all of the claims.
THE Marine Stewardship Council is to strip the cod’s ‘blue tick’ approval rating as a sustainable food – which it only awarded in 2017 – as stocks plummet to worrying levels once more.
AS BRITAIN’S oldest travel agency collapsed this week, it was revealed directors at the travel agency received £50m in pay and perks in the past 10 years, leading to calls for them to pay back their bonuses. An estimated 160,000 Brits were left stranded abroad after the firm’s demise. A STUDY has found that delicates cycles on washing machines release more harmful plastic micro-fibres than other settings. The tiny pieces of fabric drain out and can end up in the sea where they can be ingested by marine life.