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Emmy stolen in LA fires looting as nine charged over thefts in Palisades and Eaton

Jan 14, 2025 | independent.co.uk | Holly Williams

Three suspects were arrested stealing $200,000 worth of valuables from one property during mandatory evacuationsHolly WilliamsNine people have been charged with looting in connection with the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles, the district attorney has said. Nathan Hochmann told reporters that among the stolen property was an Emmy award, which was taken from a resident’s home in Altadena by four individuals who were quickly apprehended.
“For me to return to elected office would require the most extraordinary circumstances,” he told the PA news agency

Oct 13, 2024 | newsletter.co.uk | Holly Williams

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowFormer minister Steve Baker has ruled out returning to frontline politics except in the most “extraordinary circumstances” as he makes his comeback in the private sector after a “bruising” 14 years as a Conservative MP.
Just Eat ad featuring McDonald’s burgers banned over targeting of under-16s

Aug 20, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Holly Williams

Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth. Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. A Just Eat advertisement on Facebook featuring MacDonald’s burgers has been banned for failing to take enough care to ensure the promotion was not aimed at children aged under 16.
65 bodies pulled from rubble after Israeli operation in Gaza City

Jul 12, 2024 | aol.com | Holly Williams |Omar Abdulkader

July 12, 2024 at 8:58 AMTel Aviv — A civil defense worker in Gaza City tells CBS News that 65 bodies were found under the rubble in just one neighborhood of the Palestinian city decimated by the latest Israeli assault. It had been Gaza's biggest city, before the war sparked by the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel by the territory's Hamas rulers. Israel's military told everyone in Gaza City to evacuate again this week — for the second time since the war started.
Deadly Israeli strike on a Gaza school knocks hope for a cease-fire

Jul 10, 2024 | yahoo.com | Holly Williams |Omar Abdulkader

Holly Williams, Omar AbdulkaderJuly 10, 2024 at 6:29 AM·4 min readTel Aviv — A surge of hope for a breakthrough in Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks drew CIA Director William Burns back to the Middle East this week, but the hopes have been tempered by a blistering Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza. The attack killed at least 29 people at the Al Awda school in Khan Younis, according to an official at the nearby al-Nasser Hospital.
King Charles returns to public work with visit to London cancer center

Apr 30, 2024 | aol.com | Holly Williams

April 30, 2024 at 7:40 AMLondon — Britain's King Charles III returned to his official public duties Tuesday for the first time since he started undergoing treatment for cancer in February. Charles and Queen Camilla visited a hospital and specialist cancer treatment center to lend their to support to the staff and patients there.
Charity boss accuses Israel of "direct attack" on Gaza aid convoy

Apr 4, 2024 | yahoo.com | Holly Williams |Erin Lyall

Tel Aviv — Chef José Andrés says his World Central Kitchen charity's team in the Gaza Strip appears to have been deliberately targeted by the Israeli military with deadly airstrikes that killed seven staffers on Monday, including a young American father.
World kitchen charity ID's U.S. worker killed by Israeli strike in Gaza

Apr 3, 2024 | yahoo.com | Holly Williams |Erin Lyall

Tel Aviv — World Central Kitchen, the food charity founded by Spanish-American celebrity chef José Andrés, has named U.S.-Canadian dual national Jacob Flickinger, 33, as one of the seven members of its team killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza late Monday night. The other WCK staff members killed in the attack, which Israel's military has called a "grave mistake," have been identified as Palestinian, British, Polish and Australian nationals.
Pubs ‘raise glass' to Chancellor's small firms boost

Nov 22, 2023 | irishnews.com | Holly Williams

Britain’s publicans and brewers will be “raising a glass to the Chancellor” after measures were unveiled in the autumn statement to help small firms by slashing business rate bills across the sector. But trade groups criticised Jeremy Hunt for failing to do more to help large retail and hospitality businesses. Experts estimated that independent pubs, small shops and restaurants will save between £11,728 and £16,507 each on average in business rates next April thanks to the announcements.
a mouthwatering kitchen drama from one of America's finest

Oct 25, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Marianka Swain |Kirsten Grant |Holly Williams |Stuart Husband

London is having a love affair with Pulitzer-winner Lynn Nottage. We've already seen two works from her this year ( The Secret Life of Bees and Mlima's Tale), and another follows in the spring (Michael Jackson musical MJ). Now the Donmar hosts her 2021 play Clyde's, a loose sequel to Sweat, which was also brilliantly staged here by Lynette Linton in 2018. Set in working-class Pennsylvania, Sweat depicted the Rust Belt disillusionment that contributed to Trump's shock victory.