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Helen Pankhurst: I think it’s sad the way that Meghan has been treated

The gender equality activist has launched a podcast ahead of International Women’s Day.

The Independent UK

Helen Pankhurst: How Meghan has been treated is sad

The activist is launching a new podcast with singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor for International Women’s Day.

The Independent UK

From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians

Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks.

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Beverley Knight calls Suella Braverman a ‘risible character’ after ‘disgusting’ Windrush reform reversal

Singer and actor expressed her disgust at recent governemental decisions about Windrush reform

The Independent UK

Beverley Knight: ‘Prince encouraged me to be bold’

The singer and musical star on her role as suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in a hip-hop stage show, her contempt for the home secretary and her ambition to play Aretha Franklin

The Guardian - UK

Sylvia review – storming show sets suffragettes to soul, funk and hip-hop

Historical characters bust contemporary dance moves while the troubled relationship between Sylvia Pankhurst and her mother Emmeline is laid bare

The Guardian - UK

Activists gather to support 'Barclays 7' women who broke windows at bank’s headquarters

Climate activists want to draw attention to Barclays’ role as the UK and Europe’s largest fossil fuel investor – and their tactics were inspired by the suffragettes’ window smashing protests of 1911 and 1912

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More than 100 writers sign letter in solidarity with jailed UK climate activists

Ben Okri, Simon Schama, Helen Pankhurst and AL Kennedy among those saying they ‘stand with’ protesters

The Guardian - UK

From the wheelchair-using Black Panther to the ‘cripple suffragette’ – 10 heroes of the disabled rights movement

Brad Lomax in the US, Rosa May Billinghurst in the UK, Javed Abid in India … these are the men and women I wish I had known about as a disabled child

The Guardian - UK

The new Manchester hotel in an "amazing location" with rooms from £75 a night

"It was a joy to peek out of the window"

Manchester Evening News

Mum's anguish as baby twin died in womb and sibling was born with no heartbeat

Helen Hudson hopes to raise awareness for World Prematurity Day after losing on of her twins due to complications

Manchester Evening News

World Prematurity Day: Family of baby born without heartbeat celebrates first birthday

Helen Hudson gave birth to twins Beatrice and Emmeline in 2021

Wales Online

Mother’s agony as baby dies from rare ‘twin to twin transfusion’ syndrome

Helen Hudson, 40, gave birth to twins Beatrice and Emmeline in 2021, only the latter of whom survived

The Independent UK

My suffragette grandmothers are now seen as heroes. Today’s climate protesters will be too

Whether or not you agree with their tactics, activists blocking roads and stopping traffic are on the right side of history, says Care International adviser Dr Helen Pankhurst

The Guardian - UK

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Protests at art museums are nothing new. Here are 3 famous examples from history

Climate groups like Just Stop Oil are making headlines for targeting famous works of art in their fossil fuel protests. It's a tactic that other individuals and groups have used over the last century.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Rishi Sunak becomes UK’s PM after meeting the king

Ex-chancellor is third Tory prime minister in less than two months and fifth in six years. Plus, the history of radical art protest by women

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women

‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus

Evening Standard

Eco-warriors attack Van Gogh’s Sunflowers with Heinz soup – here are the other famous acts of art vandalism

What is it about art that activists (love to) hate so much?

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The Guardian - UK

Let’s sing the praises of Sylvia Pankhurst – and honour her with a statue

Letter: Philippa Clark on the musical about the socialist campaigner and the campaign for a statue of her

The Guardian - UK

Beverley Knight: Suffragettes’ struggle still relevant today

The soul singer plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia, a hip-hop musical returning to the Old Vic

The Independent UK

Beverley Knight to star as suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in musical

The musical returns for a limited run from January 27 to April 1 2023.

Edinburgh Live

We saw the Edinburgh Fringe show championing brilliant women and it packed a punch

The cast put on a phenomenal performance packed full of energy and passion that was maintained all the way throughout the powerful and captivating show

The National (Scotland)

Fantastically great women take to the stage at the Fringe

WHEN Kate Pankhurst discovered that celebrated suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst was a distant cousin, she had recently graduated from an illustration…

Daily Mirror

Hollyoaks' Richard Blackwood threatened with knife - and son has weapon pulled on him too

Hollyoaks star Richard Blackwood said he was just a teenager when he was robbed at knifepoint in London. Sickeningly, his son Keaun had a similar experience when he was aged just 11

Glasgow Live

Fascinating footage explores creepy abandoned Paisley hospital plagued by vandalism

Since the old Royal Alexandra Infirmary building was closed in 1987, some of the wings were refurbished and repurposed - though others have been left to the elements.

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