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on to have an incredibly successful career both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians, including aretha franklin and sir elton john. he sold 100 million albums and had 11 uk number ones. we were having breakfast in la, anti tummy had taken the decision he was going to leave his present manager and go solo. i was astonished, wham with the biggest p0p group astonished, wham with the biggest pop group in the world and could have continued for many years. he was adamant and it s plain to me it was adamant and it s plain to me it was about what he wanted to do musically. he was feeling trapped by the type of music that wham fans expected. earlier, i spoke to the music and film producer martin lewis who was with george when he was making the decision to go solo. russia is holding a day of national mourning for the 92 people killed when a military plane crashed in the black sea. authorities in russia say they ve located the site where the plane came down y ....
withdraw a controversial initiative to strip an independent ethics committee of its powers. and, going full circle. how vinyl is making a comeback, hitting a 25 year high. the uk s most senior diplomat to the european union has quit, just weeks after warning it could take a decade to reach a trade deal with the european union following brexit. sir ivan rogers resignation comes less than three months before the government expects to start formal talks on leaving the eu. his comments put him at the centre of a political row, with leave campaigners accusing him of being unduly pessimistic on brexit, while others argue he was simply reporting the mood in brussels. here s our political correspondent carole walker. voiceover: behind the darkened windows, at the prime minister s side, as she arrived at last month s eu summit, sir ivan rogers tried to keep a low profile. but his warning that it could take the uk ten years to get a new eu trade deal overshadowed what was alread ....
and my guest today is in that club and has been for more than two decades. patricia cornwell can lay claim to have invented the whole genre of crime scene forensic detective fiction. her investigator, kay scarpetta, has featured in two dozen novels and inspired a host of imitators. the author herself talks of her determination to confront and control her fears. do her books tell us what she is frightened of? patricia cornwell, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. i ve heard i do the same thing you do. what s that? autopsies. well, this isn t going to be an autopsy, but it is going to be a dissection of what you do. i want to begin by asking you, when did you first realise you had a gift for telling stories with an edge of darkness to them? truth is, i realised it at a young age, because i was always making up stories, you know, and the kids loved to hear my stories. i realised very early on that i could tell stories in a very frightening way. one day i was holding forth in a ....
some who don t receive the care they need to get washed, even some who ve fallen and not been found for days. a&e staff recognise the problems too. i think the pressures on the nhs, and especially in emergency care, are particularly intense at the moment. but what is more concerning is the number of patients who have been managed within four hours, and then the delays to admission into the hospital bed base, which unfortunately are very, very significant, and our staff are working under some pretty intolerable conditions at times trying to manage. and sometimes they just can t manage. figures from nhs england show that overflowing a&e departments had to close their doors to new patients more than 140 times over the last month. compare that with the same month in 2015 it s up more than 60%. the suspicion is that it s a combination of the cuts that we ve seen in social care, in community services run by the nhs, and very heavy pressure in general practice. so is the str ....
joseph fiennes, to playjackson, has proved controversial. the programme prompted criticism from the late pop star s daughter, an online petition and, today, sky decided to drop the show as our arts correspondent, colin paterson reports. i sensed danger. this is all that audiences are going to see ofjoseph fiennes playing michaeljackson two clips from a trailer for a new sky show, urban myths. today, sky announced they will no longer be broadcasting the episode. the reason: concerns expressed by michaeljackson‘s immediate family, adding that they never intended to cause any offence, and thatjoseph fiennes fully supports the decision. michael jackson s daughter paris was asked on twitter what she made of a white actor taking on the role of her black father. she said she was incredibly offended, and it made her want to vomit. the scottish actor brian cox plays marlon brando in the show, and thinks the decision for it to be dropped is ridiculous, it is ridiculous. it ....