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Brit holidaymaker dies after 'trying to drink all 21 cocktails on hotel bar menu'

An inquest into the death of Timothy Southern, from Lichfield, Staffordshire, heard that the 53-year-old died after taking part in a marathon drinking contest at his hotel in Jamaica

Daily Mirror

Windrush generation brought iconic jazz and reggae to UK and changed British music forever

The Windrush generation brought with them their jazz, reggae, soca and all styles of music to Britain. Here are some of the top songs that inspired generations long after, and still influences Britain's music scene

Daily Mirror

Beloved grandparents murdered just weeks after discovering their life savings stolen

Grandparents Charlie and Gayle Anderson, 71 and 74, were found brutally murdered in their home in Jamaica a year after moving back to the island from the UK in 2018

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Why Folarin Balogun didn't play for USMNT v Jamaica as Arsenal star set to miss pre-season start

Arsenal transfer news: Folarin Balogun didn't feature for USMNT in the CONCACAF Gold Cup with Matt Turner the hero as future decisions set to be made.

Football London

Chelsea announce third summer transfer in blow to Newcastle

Chelsea transfer news: The Blues have announced the signing of Jamaican striker Dujuan 'Whisper' Richards

Football London

The week in audio: Windrush: A Family Divided; Janey Godley: The C Bomb; The Skewer; Sport’s Strangest Crimes – review

To stay or return to Jamaica: 75 years after Windrush; a comedian with true confidence and charisma; Jon Holmes’s brilliant news mashup; and Hugh Dennis on his private passion

The Guardian - UK

Demarai Gray makes Everton goal admission as he looks to fulfil Sean Dyche's demands

Demarai Gray has admitted he needs to improve his scoring output for Everton ahead of his international debut for Jamaica

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Windrush legacy: the lasting impact of Caribbean migration on Britain and beyond

While many who came to the UK suffered injustice, migration also altered the sociology of the islands they left behind

The Guardian - UK

Murdered after their bank accounts were drained of every penny - the tragedy of devoted Charlie and Gayle

Charlie and Gayle Anderson, 71 and 74, were brutally murdered in Jamaica, just a few weeks after discovering their life savings had been stolen. No-one has ever been arrested over their deaths

Manchester Evening News

Former Lanarkshire beauty therapist ordained as Church of Scotland minister

Rev Kaye Gardiner, who came to her faith following a chance conversation with a waitress in Jamaica, has been inducted into Kenmure Parish Church in Bishopbriggs.

Daily Record

'Windrush Day is no celebration in the Caribbean - it has been plundered forever'

After decades picking up the pieces of the seduction, followed by the betrayal of West Indians by the British government, there is little appetite to mirror the festivities in England

Daily Mirror

Windrush pioneers share stories of racism and freezing cold on 75th anniversary

Windrush generation tell of initial struggles to settle in an uncertain Britain on 75th anniversary of arrival of first wave of Caribbean migrants

Daily Mirror

The Mancunian Way: Windrush 75

The vast contributions the Windrush generation made to Manchester AND The scars left by a government scandal that devastated so many

Manchester Evening News

Help Windrush children explore their shared history

Letters: Making links with the home country of your parents and grandparents is important for identity formation, writes Andrew P Smith, while Robin Cameron recommends the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool

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Daily Mirror

Windrush Day: Arsenal legend opens up on mother's 'difficulties' after settling in UK

In his book, Paul Davis: Arsenal And After, the Gunners legend details his mother's journey from Jamaica to England on the 75th anniversary of Windrush Day

The Guardian - UK

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

Football London

'History was being rewritten' - Former Arsenal star Paul Davis on 75th anniversary of Windrush

Paul Davis spent 15 years at Arsenal, playing 447 times for the Gunners in the 1980s and 1990s and he has spoken about his mum's experience of coming over to the UK and working here on the anniversary of Windrush

Daily Mirror

Windrush man forced to sleep on park benches still battling Home Office for compensation

Jamaican-born Delroy Foster grew up in London and yet the Home Office refused him entry to the UK after wrongly accusing him of not being British - years later Mr Foster is still battling to get compensation

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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

Daily Mirror

'I've only felt unsafe in my country once and realised how fragile my Britishness is'

Aged just four, my dad followed his own father from a small town in the west of Jamaica to the UK along with his family, making a life for us all - before it felt like the government might try and take it all away

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 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

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

Daily Mirror

Faces of Windrush generation immortalised by portraits as King Charles lauds 'pioneers'

Marking the 75th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush docking in Essex, a BBC documentary will follow the project, which King Charles III has commemorated in a book

Daily Mirror

'As a Windrush descendant, I'm inspired by Caribbean influence on English cricket history'

On the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush ship arriving in London from Jamaica, Mirror Sport's chief cricket writer Dean Wilson looks at the lasting impact the Caribbean has had on the national pastime

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