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A collection of letters written on behalf of the Duke of Windsor that are to be sold at auction show parallels with today's public and press fascination with the royal family, the auctioneer says.The private secretary to the duke, who signs his name as G. Bedford, wrote the 14 letters on behalf of the duke, who was known as Edward VIII until his abdication in 1936, from the period June 1937 to December 1939.

A man who murdered his partner and tried to cover it up has been sentenced to at least 21 years in jail.Garry Bennett, 37, killed 30-year-old Madison Wright as she tried to leave him, then sent a message on her phone to suggest she had gone away.Her body was found in Wat Tyler Country Park in Pitsea, Essex, on 30 July last year, eight days after she was last seen.

A family has warned about the dangers of railway lines after a teenage girl was found dead near tracks in Dorset.Officers were called to train lines in Weymouth at 2.25am on Thursday, where they found 15-year-old Roxy Phillips unresponsive.Despite treatment from paramedics, she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Good morning.It's Monday.We'll look at Mayor Eric Adams's recent comments dismissing the separation of church and state.Image Credit...Benjamin Norman for The New York Times I turned to my colleague Dana Rubinstein, who covers politics in New York, to discuss the mayor's thinking.The mayor told the interfaith breakfast that his trajectory to City Hall had been divinely ordained.

A boy lays a flower at the scene of a helicopter crash crash in Brovary, Ukraine, where at least 14 people died, including Ukraine's interior affairs minister Denys Monastyrsky.Ed Ram/Getty Images BROVARY, Ukraine Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and a child are among at least 14 people who died in a helicopter crash Wednesday morning, after the aircraft slammed into an area holding a kindergarten and its playground in Brovary, an eastern suburb of Kyiv.

The disparity between men and women honoured by the London blue plaques scheme is so great that it would take 300 years, at current rates, to reach equality between the sexes, English Heritage has said, as it called for people to continue nominating more women.Despite significant progress having been made in recent years in recognising more notable women from history, Anna Eavis, the charity's curatorial director, said the scheme would welcome many more diverse nominations, to fully recognise the capital's extraordinarily rich history.

Is there any pageant of state more chockablock with symbolism than a royal coronation?Almost every detail, from the crown itself to the bracelets of sincerity and wisdom presented to the new monarch, is redolent of meaning.So it really shouldn't be a surprise that the clothes of the ceremony's stars, as well as many of the guests, were equally considered, down to the tiniest detail.

At over 150 lbs, a half-keg of beer is strenuous to handle.That's why more than 20 years ago, the D.G. Yuengling and Son, Inc. brewery - known as America's oldest - made its first foray into automation when it incorporated industrial robots on its keg-filling lines.Fast forward to the present, and Yuengling recently replaced those original robots with new state-of-the-art models.

Linda Pastan, whose elegantly simple poems found beauty and, sometimes, pain in the ordinary sights and moments of life, died on Jan. 30 at her home in Chevy Chase, Md.She was 90.Her daughter, the novelist Rachel Pastan, said the cause was complications after cancer surgery.Ms. Pastan published 15 volumes of poetry, beginning in 1971 with A Perfect Circle of Sun.

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Officials on Tuesday cut the ceremonial ribbon on the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital, the city's first new public hospital since 1982.The hospital - a part of what is now known as NYC Health + Hospital/South Brooklyn Health, but was formerly known as Coney Island Hospital - was built with withstanding in mind, and includes a storm-resilient design, a flood-proof Emergency Department, private patient rooms and state-of-the-art equipment.

A nine-year-old author hopes that her book will encourage others to live in the power of their name and celebrate being unique.Isis Damali, who was just seven when she began writing her book called Isis Meets Isis, told the PA news agency that she wanted to write a book that would pay homage to her name, which has roots in Ancient Egypt.

"Our approach reflects our years of working on this issue, and it's so much broader.It's so much more comprehensive," Collins said in a joint interview with Shaheen, the moderate Mainer's longtime partner on bills ranging from broadband expansion to post-Jan.6 reform.Shaheen observed that "our proposal is better than theirs" before taking a more diplomatic tack: "It's more comprehensive.

Brooklynites pulled together to raise thousands of dollars for the victims of a fatal Bensonhurst car crash last Monday, which killed two people and left several others injured.Stancho Stanchev and Yuet Leung were both named as the victims of the bloody incident, which occurred just before 1 p.m. at the intersection of 64 Street and 18 Avenue on March 20.

From Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II, visiting British monarchs have received a warm welcome in Paris over the past 170 years.Thawed relations In August 1855, Queen Victoria made a state visit to Paris, the first by a British monarch in 400 years.After spending centuries at war Britain and France were fighting together against the Russian Empire in Crimea.

Florence Pugh, left, and Morgan Freeman in "A Good Person."(Jeong Park/Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures)StarOutline StarOutline (1.5 stars) Taking on such hot topics as distracted driving, substance abuse and teen pregnancy, "A Good Person" plays like a two-hour public service announcement.

Realtor.comThe innovative former owner of the Blantyre luxury resort in Lenox, MA, has purchased a Gilded Age estate in the Berkshires.Originally built for Emily Vanderbilt and husband William D. Sloane in 1886, the spectacular mansion on 89 acres is the largest shingled-style residence in the country.

A father-of-three crushed to death by a pop-up urinal in the West End has been pictured for the first time.Kevin Holding, 60, from Beckenham in south east London, was killed by the public toilet outside the Palace Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue on January 27.An inquest heard Thursday that the grandfather was crushed as the toilet he was repairing fell quite suddenly.

Kevin Holding, 60, from south-east London, was killed by the public toilet outside the Palace Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue on January 27.Mr Holding was pronounced dead at 3.40pm more than two hours after becoming trapped as he neared completion of his repair work.He was identified by his Oyster card.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A D-Day veteran and his great-grandson share a birthday a century apart.Ken Hobbs celebrated his 100th birthday on Sunday February 12 at the Blind Veterans UK wellbeing centre in Brighton, East Sussex, surrounded by his friends and family except his granddaughter, Stephanie Baldwin.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The aristocrat father whose estranged daughter disappeared with her sex offender partner and baby last month made an emotional plea for her to return - but it was ignored.Now Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon have been arrested in Brighton but her baby is still missing.

One of two dogs belonging to a Keyham shooting victim ran home to alert his family, an inquest heard.Poppy, a husky cross, returned home after Stephen Washington, 59, was shot dead by Jake Davison, 22, in Plymouth on the afternoon of August 12 2021.Sheila Washington was immediately worried because her husband of nearly 40 years was missing with their other dog, a husky called Drift.

STILL PICTURES: On Photography and Memory, by Janet Malcolm The field is all but clear now, and it seems safe to say that the two most important long-form journalists this country produced in the second half of the last century were Joan Didion and Janet Malcolm.Their differences are more evident than their similarities: the cold Los Angeles burn of Didion's work, the measured New York ambiguity of Malcolm's.

Anita Pointer, who has died from cancer aged 74, was a member of the Pointer Sisters from their formation in 1969 until illness forced her to step down in 2015.They achieved immediate success with their debut album, The Pointer Sisters, in 1973, which reached No 13 on the US chart, and their first single, the Allen Toussaint composition Yes We Can Can, went to No 11.

Oscar White Muscarella, an archaeologist who argued vociferously that antiquities collectors and museums  including his longtime employer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art  were fueling a market in forgeries and encouraging the plundering of archaeological sites, died on Nov. 27 at his home in Philadelphia.

The White House Menorah can be seen in Cross Hall and is part of this year's "We The People"-themed holiday display.The Bidens will add the menorah to the permanent White House collection at a Hanukkah reception Monday evening, The White House This year, to celebrate the ancient Jewish festival of lights, the White House added a menorah to its holiday lineup for the first time.

Local The artist said they wanted to spark conversation about the meaning of Christmas.Some New Bedford residents were surprised to see a quirky new addition to the city's holiday display in Clasky Common Park the morning of Dec. 11.Where once stood a Frosty the Snowman ice fishing shack, a colorful Baphomet - a gnostic deity recognized by pagans and occultists - was painted on plywood looking over the wooden snowmen skating in front of it.