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Three Little Birds: cast, plot, first looks and everything we know

Three Little Birds is set in 1957 and follows three young women leaving Jamaica for a new life in Britain.

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Tour de France 2023: Cycling experts unveil five most challenging routes in Great Britain

How you can make a yellow jersey-worthy effort on your home turf

Evening Standard

Hiking interest rates isn’t working. That leaves us all poorer – and Rishi Sunak carrying the can

Britain is facing a new economic era that will hurt those already struggling, and could radicalise even the previously comfortable, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Windrush Day: How should we commemorate the generation’s arrival 75 years on?

The Windrush generation courageously came to Britain to take on skilled jobs. The Caribbean migrants, many of whom had served Britain during the war, worked in coal and iron production, kept public transport running by driving buses and trains, and staffed the newly established National Health Service.

Evening Standard

Prince William hails Windrush generation as he meets one of first arrivals 75 years ago

Marking the anniversary of the Empire Windrush docking at Tilbury, the hour-long programme will tell the story of those who left the Caribbean for a new life in Britain

Wales Online

Andrew Treagus obituary

One of Britain’s leading theatrical general managers responsible for the transfer of big Broadway musicals to the West End

The Guardian - UK

King Charles attends service marking 75th anniversary of Windrush arrival

Caribbean arrivals made ‘profound and immeasurable’ contribution to UK, the King said

Evening Standard

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Invasion of the cool-girl ceiling-smashers: why I love the revamped National Portrait Gallery

From Tracey Emin to Jann ‘Sgt Pepper’ Haworth, this London landmark’s new additions are game-changers. The result is a thrilling, uplifting gallery that reflects a Britain I am proud to be part of

The Guardian - UK

Bank of England delivers big rate hike

LONDON: The Bank of England (BoE) rattled markets by raising interest rates by half a percentage point — twice the amount expected — on Thursday, after it said there had been “significant” news suggesting British inflation would take longer to fall.

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King attends service marking 75th anniversary of Windrush arrival

Hundreds gathered at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle to remember the pioneering voyagers.

The Independent UK

‘It’s a badge of honour’: Windrush grandchildren discuss its legacy

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s ‘first professional Jewish panto’ to be staged in north London

Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Pig will open during Hanukah in December at culture centre JW3

The Guardian - UK

Windrush 75: “A chip on my shoulder? No. It’s a log”

Seventy-five years ago the HMT Empire Windrush brought the first passengers from the Caribbean looking for a new life in Britain. Kemi Alemoru meets some of the early arrivals

Evening Standard

Windrush is part of a bigger global story – one that is giving me hope for the future

The knock-on effects of those 500 people’s arrival transformed Britain, leading to the multiracial society we live in today, says Onyekachi Wambu, editor of the anthology Empire Windrush

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Manchester Evening News

Prince William hails 'extraordinary contribution' to Britain of Windrush generation

The Prince of Wales said the contribution of those who came to the UK from the Caribbean 'cannot be overstated'

The Independent UK

Exhibition shines light on Caribbean's 'barrel children' left behind by Windrush migrants to UK

For scores of children who grew up in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean in the 1950s and 60s, barrels of gifts that arrived at Christmastime were the only connection they had with their parents, who were thousands of miles away in Britain in search of better work opportunities

Evening Standard

Marcus Ryder on how the Windrush generation shaped modern Britain

The impact of the passengers arriving at Tilbury Docks 75 years ago today was transformative — culture, food, humour, the very infrastructure of society was changed forever, says Marcus Ryder

Daily Mirror

Windrush changemakers who paved the way for others and still fight for justice today

The Windrush generation rebuilt Britain's workforce in a post-war world, but the abhorrent racism and prejudice they faced continues to impact families to this day. We look back on the figures who made transformative change

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Daily Mirror

'I hide my true self most of the time but on Windrush Day, I can be unashamedly ethnic'

Catherine Ross, a member of the Windrush generation who travelled to Britain from the Caribbean when she was just seven, has explained why celebrating Windrush Day is so important

Daily Mirror

'Windrush gen paved way for me to become NHS nurse - but history can't repeat itself'

Child of the Windrush generation, Estephanie Dunn, calls for the doctors and nurses who arrived 75 years ago to help Britain to be honoured by creating real change now

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh grandson of first Windrush passenger recounts racism faced by new arrivals

It is 75 years today since the first Caribbean arrivals disembarked from the Windrush. Luke Samuels says that his grandfather and the Windrush generation as a whole have had to overcome many obstacles.

The Independent UK

Prince of Wales ‘forever grateful’ to Windrush generation and descendants

June 22 marks the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush first docking in England.

The Guardian - UK

‘We’ll play until our teeth drop out!’ The long, remarkable lives of Britain’s Windrush-era musicians

Now in their 80s and 90s, having faced down racism and neglect, musicians of Caribbean heritage are still centre stage in the adopted country where they’ve enriched music in so many ways

The Independent UK

Search for Windrush boat anchor lost after shipwreck

Funds will be used to locate the wreck and the 1.5 tonne anchor will then be lifted and brought back to the UK to go on permanent display

The Independent UK

Dancehall legend Tippa Irie on Windrush: ‘Black Britons are still not accepted’

Exclusive: Speaking to The Independent for Windrush 75, the musician born Anthony Henry speaks with Nadine White about staying successful over a four-decade career, racism in Britain and his new biography Stick To My Roots

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