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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is an early exploration of ‘romance fraud’

Shrinking into her yellowing wedding gown with the decay of her wedding breakfast around her, Miss Havisham, from Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel, Great Expectations, is one of the best-known characters in English literature.

The Conversation

Circle of Wonders by Kathryn Heyman review – solace and healing in an acid-etched portrait of a dysfunctional family

Heyman’s story about women struggling to put aside their hurts and do right by one another is all about rage, vulnerability, forgiveness and a bit of woo-woo

The Guardian - AU

Love Lane by Patrick Gale review – a homecoming tale with echoes of Brokeback Mountain

This kindly and companionable story of a man returning to 50s England after living in Canada offers a colourful evocation of the times

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Why Sarah Ferguson would have been wrong to clone the Queen’s corgis

IN FOCUS: For grieving dog owners desperate to bring their pet back, cloning may feel like the answer for their broken heart. But it could be bad for us and our dogs, writes Louise Glazebrook

The Independent UK

Government gives update on Pip review as claimants reach record high

Disabled people have been urged to share their views on the future of the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), Britain’s most-claimed health and disability benefit, as the review into the payment continues.

The Independent UK

One Debate Involving Michael Jordan And Scottie Pippen That Fellow NBA Legend Reggie Miller Just Settled

He has a good point.

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Amid Michael Jordan And Scottie Pippen’s Feud, A Former Teammate Weighed In On Their Skills

This sounds like a balanced take.

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‘The perfect place for people like me’: how one couple started UK’s first women’s sports bar

Lucy and Pippa Tallant have opened the Crossbar, in Brighton, to create a place for women to feel comfortable watching all sport

The Guardian - UK

Pussies galore! David Baddiel’s Cat Man is purr-fect TV

He gets bitten by a grumpy moggy, bathes with lions and visits a home for disabled felines. This heartfelt, hilarious three-part homage to kitties is pure comfort viewing

The Guardian - UK

Éanna Hardwicke: ‘A lot of TV fetishises people who do appalling things’

RISING STARS: The Irish rising star tells Tom Murray about playing one of football’s hardest men, Roy Keane, in ‘Saipan’, the perils of acting opposite one of his heroes, Steve Coogan, and the state of true crime TV

The Independent UK

I’m a dog expert – here’s why I’d never get my dead dog cloned like Tom Brady did

FIRST PERSON: For a grieving dog owner desperate to bring their pet back, cloning may feel like the answer to a broken heart. But it could be bad for us and our dogs, writes Louise Glazebrook

The Independent UK

Scottie Pippen Is Still Being Asked About Michael Jordan Amid Their Feud, And He Didn’t Hold Back About Getting So Many Questions

The six-time NBA champion is getting real.

Cinemablend

The Cast Of The Golden Bachelor Has Dropped & Holy Shit Is That Abbie Chatfield’s Mother?

The official cast for Australia's first-ever The Golden Bachelor has dropped, and Abbie Chatfield's mother, Laura, is set to find love.

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What Will It Take For Michael Jordan And Scottie Pippen To Reconcile? One Of Their Former Bulls Teammates Weighs In

Is there hope for these two NBA icons?

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Sally Phillips: ‘I saw Hugh Grant and I screamed. I was surprised he was human-size’

The comedian and actor on what she has learned at clown school, showing her Austin costar Michael Theo around London and the weirdest thing she has done for love

Evening Standard

Ministers ‘pushed ahead too fast’ on welfare reform, says Phillipson

The Government warned there would be financial consequences to the decision not to reform personal independence payment as planned.

Evening Standard

Starmer vows to press on with welfare reform as he takes blame for U-turn

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer acknowledged his Government did not ‘get the process right’.

Evening Standard

Welfare cuts chaos: Tax rises loom within months after Starmer's 'shambolic' benefit reforms 'saved nothing'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves now faces a £5 billion hole in her tax and spending plans

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The Labour welfare rebels are right. This hounding of disabled people will damage the party for years to come

Opposition is mounting and No 10 is preparing a raft of concessions. But whatever happens next, the moral stain will remain, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Evening Standard

Pip claimants at record 3.7 million as welfare reforms loom

Sir Keir Starmer’s Government is facing a possible rebellion among his own MPs who are unhappy about proposed changes to the system.

The Guardian - UK

‘Labour has made me feel like a scrounger’: disabled people urge welfare cuts rethink

People who rely on personal independence payments tell how cuts will affect them as chancellor rules out U-turn

Marie Claire

Princess Kate and Pippa Middleton’s Surprising Childhood Nicknames Are Going Viral

The Guardian - UK

Herbert Pocket is far from a minor character in Great Expectations

Letters: Readers take issue with Herbert Pocket being deemed a ‘nobody’ in an article by Zoe Williams

AAP

'Your Pippa is still alive': mum's health reform plea

The family of a two-year-old girl who died in hospital after multiple mistakes is seeking change to stop other people's loved ones meeting a similar fate.

AAP

Much-loved 'Boonie' hailed by cricket after last Test

Australian favourite David Boon has stepped down after 14 years as an international match referee that's been hailed as a "benchmark" career in cricket.

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