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PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Ant McPartlin is getting married for the second time to Anne-Marie Corbett, his former personal assistant, after a romantic Christmas proposal over cream teas
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Ant McPartlin is getting married - and he s already planning his outfit for the big day if these pictures are anything to go by.
Christopher Eccleston is returning to
Doctor Who. Though the Ninth Doctor actor has traditionally distanced himself from the sci-fi show since he vacated the TARDIS after one season in 2005, he’s now back to voice the role in an ongoing audio drama series for Big Finish Productions, who also work with the likes of Tom Baker, Paul McGann and David Tennant. And ahead of the release of the first volume of
The Ninth Doctor Adventures this month, a new clip from the boxset has been revealed.
Subtitled
Ravagers, the first set contains three stories written by Big Finish’s Creative Director Nicholas Briggs, who likewise voices the Daleks on the TV series. The minute-long clip comes from the opening episode, “Sphere of Freedom,” and takes the form of a very classic
Assisted dying may be exceptional at first, but that s what they said about abortion
Policies which empower people to end life are based on naive assumptions about humanity
3 May 2021 • 6:30am
Inevitable because that’s our direction of travel since the Sixties, towards full bodily autonomy; because we’re living longer, suffering and want a dignified end; and because religious conservatism has all but collapsed in Parliament. There are MPs who have qualms about legalisation, Danny Kruger wrote intelligently against it in this paper recently, but they know they’re in a tiny minority - and that they’ll be up against a chorus of emotional rhetoric. Those who are alive and suffering can have a voice. Those who have taken their own life under pressure never do. There is no lobby for the dead.
10 Insane Decisions That Nearly Ruined Pop Culture Classics
Making an enduring slice of pop culture is harder than it looks. About a billion different things have to come together in exactly the right way. If just one of those elements is slightly wrong, you go from having a classic like
Avengers Assemble to a not-so-classic like
Avengers: Age of Ultron.
But some decisions wouldn’t have given us lesser versions of the movies, shows, and games we love today. They would have ruined them completely.
Warning: A ridiculous number of spoilers for old films are below.
Featured image credit: Pixar via YouTube
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Researchers Caitlin Neuwelt-Kearns and Dr Tom Baker from the University of Auckland’s School of Environment interviewed 15 people who had run online campaigns on NZ’s crowdfunding site ‘Givealittle’.
Of the 15 campaigners interviewed, eight were running campaigns for people with cancer, while others included neurological diseases, paraplegia and anorexia nervosa.
The difference in success between the campaigns was significant: amounts raised ranged from $1,000 to $90,000, but most fell into the $10,000 to $30,000 range. Just two raised more than $50,000.
A majority of people running campaigns – 9 – said the money raised largely came from ‘friends/family’ rather than strangers.
“Our research shows that it’s difficult getting people to donate money for someone they don’t actually know. Funders are often not a faceless crowd at all they are family, friends and acquaintances,” Dr Baker says.