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‘Over the top and fun:’ TGI Fridays boss insists time is right for a UK revival
Ray Blanchette admits he may be a ‘little crazy’ as he outlines chain’s hopes of building 1,000 outlets globally“I am a little crazy maybe,” admits Ray Blanchette, a former TGI Fridays kitchen manager who has taken on the revival of the bar-restaurant chain’s UK business in the face of blasting industry headwinds.Blanchette’s family investment firm, Sugarloaf, rescued the Dallas-based parent business from administration in 2025. He then went on to pick up its UK arm in January after the local fr...
قوه قضاییه از اعدام ابوالحسن منتظر و وحید بنیعامریان، دو زندانی سیاسی، خبر داد
قوه قضاییه از اعدام ابوالحسن منتظر و وحید بنیعامریان، دو زندانی سیاسی، خبر داد. این دو زندانی سیاسی به اتهاماتی، از جمله بغی از طریق مشارکت در اقداماتی با هدایت سازمان مجاهدین خلق به اعدام محکوم شده بودند.
Manifattura Tabacchi: 'I bought in Florence's mini-Kings Cross factory conversion — here's what it's like'
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An insider’s very comprehensive guide to Mumbai
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How to watch Man City vs Liverpool: TV channel and live stream for FA Cup today
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Illegal migrant convicted of posing as an Uber driver to kidnap women before raping them at knifepoint
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Hurvin Anderson at Tate Britain: The beautiful is political
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As a state visit looms … can the king tame Trump?
Royal visitors have long been popular in the US, and Charles has decades of diplomacy under his belt. But can soft power save the special relationship?What’s the worst that could happen when King Charles visits Donald Trump in Washington at the end of this month? And what will be the best outcome from Keir Starmer’s point of view, since it is the prime minister who directed the visit to go ahead in the hope of improving our battered, supposedly special relationship? While the relationship is sti...
From early birds to emerging butterflies: UK shows signs of earliest spring on record
Citizen science data reveals early flowering, nesting and insect activity as global heating accelerate seasonal changeBluebells are flowering, swallows are returning and orange-tip butterflies are flying in what could become Britain’s earliest recorded spring.Records for early spring occurrences are being smashed as 2026 looks to be the earliest this century for frogspawn laying, blackbirds nesting, brimstone butterflies emerging and hazel flowering, according to Nature’s Calendar, which has log...
Malaysian bookshop hits on novel idea to bring back readers addicted to ‘brain rot’ clips
“You don’t even have to look for it,” nine-year-old Anaqi said of the short videos he watches online. “It just shows up automatically, and it’s super interesting.” That instinctive pull is familiar to his father, Firdaus Omar. The 39-year-old Malaysian civil servant said his two children – Anaqi and his six-year-old brother – could spend hours watching the kind of short, noisy, endlessly recommended clips now commonly dismissed online as “brain rot”. He is worried about the effect of such...
'I'm an American in the UK and I hadn't realised how much 1 difference would affect me'
'I'm an American in the UK and I hadn't realised how much 1 difference would affect me'It's fair to say life in California is very different to here in the UK. One woman who moved to London from America's sunny west coast has opened up about one thing she wasn't expectingCommentsNewsIan Craig Social Newsdesk Content Editor06:00, 04 Apr 2026View ImageIf you're not from the UK, there are a few things about life here which might catch you by surprise (stock i...
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 'visited by one Royal Family member' for 'quiet word'
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 'visited by one Royal Family member' for 'quiet word'A friend of Andrew's has claimed a single member of the Royal Family visited him at his new home in exile after planning to stay at his Sandringham property over EasterNewsLiam Doyle06:00, 04 Apr 2026View 3 ImagesOne royal has visited Andrew at his home in exile(Image: Tom Maddick SWNS)One member of the Royal Family has visited Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor following his move to a new permanent...
Last moments of woman walking in dark boatyard before vanishing 4 weeks ago
Last moments of woman walking in dark boatyard before vanishing 4 weeks agoEssex Police have called on members of the public who may have seen psychologist Vitoria Figueiredo Barreto, who went missing in Brightlingsea, to come forwardNewsLiam Doyle06:00, 04 Apr 2026View 4 ImagesCCTV footage of a person, believed to be Ms Barreto, at Brightlingsea boatyard(Image: PA)Police have traced the last movements of a Brazilian psychologist who vanished four weeks ago while she was walking alone in a dark...
Tragic final moments of frail gran left alone with son-in-law's killer XL bullies
A grandmother was left at home with 10 XL bullies as her son-in-law went out to 'meet a lady friend'. With no training, the frail woman had no chance of defending herself from the beasts who killed her
Victoria police arrest two people as part of Dezi Freeman investigation
Man and woman to be interviewed by police after arrests at separate properties in state’s north-east on Saturday morningTwo people have been arrested as part of the investigation into how Porepunkah fugitive Dezi Freeman was able to survive on the run for seven months before he was shot dead last week.A man and a woman were arrested at separate properties in north-east Victoria on Saturday morning around 7am. Continue reading...
Security forces kill 8 terrorists in North Waziristan IBO
Security forces have identified eight terrorists killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) on April 1 in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan. with officials confirming that two of the deceased were Afghan nationals, security sources said on Saturday. According to security sources, "The first terrorist has been identified as Amir Hamza Haqyar, son of Abdul Karim, while the second was named Amir Abdul Rahim, son of Zaroli, a resident of Paktia, Afghanistan"....
Hong Kong Hospital Authority apologises for data breach involving 56,000 patients
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog and police are investigating a large-scale data leak involving over 56,000 patients served by the Hospital Authority, which reported the unauthorised retrieval of a variety of information. The authority on Saturday apologised to affected victims – patients of hospitals in Kowloon East – for the breach that compromised their names, identity card numbers, genders, dates of birth, dates of hospital visits and details of surgical procedures, among other information. The....
Probe launched after Hospital Authority data breach involving 56,0000 patients
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog and police are investigating a large-scale data leak involving over 56,000 patients served by the Hospital Authority, which reported the unauthorised retrieval of a variety of information. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said on Saturday that it received a report from the authority on Friday, noting that patients’ names, identity card numbers, genders, dates of birth, dates of hospital visits and health information had been leaked. The health...
Dubai: Buildings damaged as debris falls from sky after drones intercepted
Dubai: Buildings damaged as debris falls from sky after drones interceptedAuthorities have confirmed that debris came from an 'aerial interception' overhead which then fell on the Oracle building in Dubai Internet City causing some damageCommentsNewsPeter Hennessy UK & World News Editor05:54, 04 Apr 2026View 2 ImagesA smoke plume rises from an ongoing fire near Dubai International Airport in Dubai last month [file image]Two buildings have been damaged in Dubai after debris fell fro...
Women's March Madness championship odds: South Carolina favored over UCLA after upsetting UConn
The women’s March Madness championship is set: The SEC versus the (new) Big Ten. After a chalky run through the bracket, the South Carolina Gamecocks and the UCLA Bruins will face off in Sunday’s championship game. It’s one team’s first visit to the NCAA final. The Bruins are aiming for their first March Madness championship in program history, and Dawn Staley and her squad are going for their fourth in 10 years.Advertisement