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NATALIE Cassidy has played Sonia Fowler on EastEnders for over 30 years. The actress made the decision to quit the long-running BBC One soap in a dramatic move. Over the years, the 41-year-old ...

NOT that she’d ever wish to blow her own trumpet, but Natalie Cassidy is EastEnders’ most popular star. And following The Sun’s exclusive story on Thursday revealing the actress’s departure from ...

A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother, and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood ...

This was a defeat far more damaging than any of the last-gasp anguishes of last year for England. There were no ifs or buts or maybes about this one as Ireland opened the defence of their Six Nations ...

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Robert de Niro stars in Netflix political thriller Zero Day, The White Lotus takes us to Thailand, and Bear Grylls hunts down ...

Bossier Parish organizations say their new recycling compactor is now open and ready to use, exclusively for paper and ...

But Italy, who fought back from 22-10 down to defeat the Scots 31-29 in Rome last March, once again produced a spirited ...

President Donald Trump ratcheted up his administration’s reversal of transgender rights on Tuesday with an executive order that seeks to intervene in parents’ medical decisions by prohibiting governme ...