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Trisha’s ice days end
TRISHA Goddard has been eliminated from Dancing On Ice. The TV star and her professional partner Lukasz Rozycki received their marching orders from the ITV competition after a dance-off against Lucrezia Millarini and her partner Brendyn Hatfield.
Goddard told hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield she had done what she had set out to do, although she would have loved to have achieved more.
Knife crime repeats
ALMOST half of people charged with knife killings in London over the past three years had previously committed an offence involving a blade, new figures suggest.
Scotland Yard charged a total of 379 suspects with knife crime homicides between the start of November 2016 and the end of last October.
Some 173 of those charged in that period, or 46%, had previously committed a knife offence.
‘Brexit’s racist core’
LABOUR leadership outsider Clive Lewis has said the campaign to take Britain out of the EU had “racism at its heart”.
The shadow treasury minister, who is struggling to secure the support of MPs, said politicians like Nigel Farage had used Brexit to “divide our communities”, he told Sky News yesterday.
Mr Lewis also suggested the Duchess of Sussex had been the victim of “structural racism” in the media.
Begbie back again?
ROBERT CARLYLE has said he would “love to do” a third Trainspotting film, but it depends upon director Danny Boyle.
The actor, left, played Begbie in the 1996 film, and a 2017 sequel. He said there was “space” for a return due to original writer Irvine Welsh’s book The Blade Artist.
Apples for teachers
A HEADTEACHER has urged others to follow her school’s example and go paperless.
Kathy Crewe-Read, headmistress of the £14,000a-year Wolverhampton Grammar School, said exercise books are “old fashioned”. Children need to be “prepared for the future, not for the past”, Mrs Crewe-Read told The Sunday Telegraph.
Her pupils aged from nine to 14 use iPads rather than books in all lessons, ready for a future where “writing and reading might be a thing of the past”.