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Even from 2,000 miles away, Shamima Begum continues to stoke controversy. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that she could not return to Britain to challenge the Government’s decision to strip her of her citizenship. Yesterday, The Telegraph’s Campbell MacDiarmid tracked down Ms Begum and found a woman physically transformed from her days as an Islamic State bride. You can see the photographs and read Campbell’s excellent report here.
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March 23 will mark a full year since the United Kingdom entered its first lockdown. Ahead of the anniversary, The Telegraph is publishing a week-long series on the decisions made early in the pandemic. In the essential first entry, Gordon Rayner explores the fateful choice by Boris Johnson to delay the lockdown. In this piece, Gordon also looks at 10 key reasons why Britain has one of the world's worst per-capita death tolls.
Legendary commentators are so often revered, but few voices have become so interwoven with the sport they have covered as Murray Walker and Formula One. Walker was not just popular with audiences, however, he was also a favourite of the drivers and teams themselves. Damon Hill, the subject of perhaps Walker’s most famous line, writes in this touching piece about what the broadcaster meant to him and to motorsport as a whole.
Finally, Line of Duty will make a welcome return to television screens for the last few weeks of lockdown. The programme has brought Adrian Dunbar greater fame than he ever expected and made him an unlikely pin-up. Ahead of the new series beginning this weekend, he talked to Katie Glass about that status, how the pandemic-induced pause affected the show and coping with the dozens of police acronyms in the script.
Chris
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