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I never really understood Mardi Grass. Why do they show their breasts and do you get a necklace only if you flash?

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Meals should be based on potatoes, bread, rice, pasta or other starchy carbohydrates, ideally wholegrain, according to the NHS

Eat at least 5 portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables every day. All fresh, frozen, dried and canned fruit and vegetables count.

Base meals on potatoes, bread, rice, pasta or other starchy carbohydrates, ideally wholegrain

30 grams of fibre a day: This is the same as eating all of the following: 5 portions of fruit and vegetables, 2 whole-wheat cereal biscuits, 2 thick slices of wholemeal bread and large baked potato with the skin on

Have some dairy or dairy alternatives (such as soya drinks) choosing lower-fat and lower-sugar options

Eat some beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat and other proteins (including 2 portions of fish every week, one of which should be oily)

Choose unsaturated oils and spreads and consuming in small amounts

Drink 6-8 cups/glasses of water a day

Adults should have less than 6g of salt and 20g of saturated fat for women or 30g for men a day

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Theatre bosses staging the latest revival of My Fair Lady were so concerned it may upset some members of the audience that they attached a trigger warning to the show.

The charming Lerner and Loewe musical, including a string of timeless hit songs, tells the story of how Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle is given speech lessons by Professor Henry Higgins so she may pass as a society lady.
But anyone looking to buy a ticket online for the production at the Leeds Playhouse is warned:

'My Fair Lady is set in Edwardian London and true to Lerner and Loewe's book includes depictions of high society Britain, classism and sexism.'

The warning comes under a section entitled 'Triggers and Advisories.'

The Opera North and Leeds Playhouse production later this year is the latest example of a number of controversial theatre 'trigger warnings' that have attracted widespread criticism.

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The New Censorship is being conducted by people with no sense of irony, or of subtlety, so that they don't grasp that it would be pretty difficult to satirize without depicting.   

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A couple was forced to rescue a trapped driving instructor from 4ft of floodwater while firefighters stood by because they were 'only allowed to go in waist-high'.

Jamie Price and his partner Danielle waded into the deep water because the motorist 'looked like he was drowning' when they arrived at the scene in Ingatestone, Essex, yesterday.

Two Essex fire and rescue crews, an ambulance and a police car were parked near the stricken vehicle, but Mr Price said he was shocked to see the emergency services were not doing more to help.

Essex Fire and Rescue Service said in a statement that: 'Crews who arrived at the incident at Buttsbury Wash found a car stuck in over 1.2m of flood water.

'Because of the depth, these crews requested additional support from our specialist water team while they remained at the scene to ensure the driver was safe.

 'I noticed the driver was still in there and I thought, "Why is there a fireman standing beside him on the radio leaning up against the fence?"

'I'm thinking, "Why are they telling him to stay there, why are they not helping him?" So I asked him and that's when they said they were waiting for other crews to come because they're only wader trained, and it's too high for them for their training and what they're allowed to do.'

Mr Price said that they feared the specialised crews would not arrive in time because they were coming from Colchester, which is why they decided to take action themselves.

 

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Body is found in the hunt for Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi:

NEW The Afghan-born asylum seeker was wanted for a brutal attack on a mother and her children in Clapham where he doused them in alkaline. Scotland Yard has said at 4pm yesterday the crew of a passing boat reported they had seen a body in the water at Tower Pier in east London. He was last seen several miles away in Chelsea. The body was recovered by the Met's Marine Policing Unit and has been viewed by detectives working on the investigation. Commander Jon Savell said: 'Based on the distinctive clothing he was wearing at the time of the attack and property found on his body, we strongly believe we have recovered the body of Ezedi'.

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Eyes shining with excitement, the nine-year-old English boy in a dark Parka jacket holds up a certificate showing he has just converted to Islam.
'You're a Muslim, Rudi!' cheers the imam as he hugs the child, whose hand he has held throughout a short ceremony at a Lancashire mosque.
In his piping voice, the youngster has just recited the words of the Shahada, a strict Islamic creed pledging that there is 'nothing worthy of worship but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger'. \

The mantra means he must now wash before praying five times a day, never eat pork and - when he is grown up - shun Western habits including drinking alcohol or sex, except with his own equally devout Muslim wife.

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Bad news! Red wine really ISN'T good for your heart, experts trash 30 years of research on benefits, saying it's 'hugely flawed'

A growing body of research has put the cork in the belief that red wine has health benefits pointing out that, contrary to the prevailing belief, it could actually increase the risk of heart issues .

I love it, drink a few glasses every day.

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Fury over plans to house asylum seekers in tiny Cumbrian town in grips of homes shortage:

Bid to put migrants in eight rundown properties sparks anger - with police increasing patrols after accommodation is vandalized.

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California court is shown horrific photo of exploded bottom as mother and daughter 'plastic surgeons' appear in court charged with murdering aspiring porn star who came to them for backside lift with silicone shots.

Libby Adame, 53, and her daughter Alicia Galaz are facing murder charges for allegedly causing the death of their client, Karissa Rajpaul, 26, in October 2019, with a 'toxic' butt-lift.

An aspiring porn star, Rajpaul had moved from South Africa to California for her work, and had previously shared a clip of herself during one of the operations.

An image of the earlier procedure was produced in court Tuesday, showing a smiling Rajpaul laying on an operating table while four women, allegedly including Adame and Galaz, and a man stood around her, none of whom were wearing surgical clothing.

She suffered from acute cardiopulmonary dysfunction while on the operating table for the third time, and the mother and daughter then allegedly fled the scene while Rajpaul was rushed to hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.

When the two were ordered to stand trial in March 2023, Deputy District Attorney Lee Cernok said: 'This is something that's being done by two people without a medical license... To say this is clandestine is an understatement.'

Grisly images of another fatal procedure allegedly carried out by the pair was also shown to the court - although they were not charged in that case, it was likely raised as investigators feared there were other victims of the lawless procedures.

At the time of their arrest, Detective Bob Dinlocker said chemicals found in the illegal materials they were injecting aren't even intended to be used in humans and can attack your heart, brain or kidneys.

'As we looked into this investigation, we did find that it is occurring a lot,' he said.

'The internet is filled with these horror stories where they're cutting the medical grade silicone with the stuff that you would caulk your windows with.

He claimed Adame and Galaz would take supplies to private houses with no regard to typical standards and practices.

If anything went wrong, Dinlocker alleged that the suspects would disappear, leaving paramedics to arrive to an unknown medical emergency - in the same manner that prosecutors said they left Rajpaul.

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ISIS bride Shamima Begum to find out this week if she has won bid to overturn decision to remove her British citizenship

At the age of just 15 the 'straight A student' married a jihadi and began life inside one of the most savage terror groups in history but is battling to return home.

ISIS bride Shamima Begum will find out this week whether she has won a Court of Appeal bid over the removal of her British citizenship.

Begum travelled to Syria via Istanbul, Turkey, from Gatwick Airport to join ISIS in 2015 with her close friends at Bethnal Green Academy - Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15.

At the age of just 15 the 'straight A student' married a jihadi and began life inside one of the most savage terror groups in history.

But after being discovered in a refugee camp in Syria in February 2019 the schoolgirl turned ISIS bride had her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds by then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid.

Since then she has been locked in a legal battle with the British government to return home.