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The creator, who is partially deaf, discusses her crime thriller series, starring Rose Ayling-Ellis, Charlotte Ritchie, Andrew Buchan and Kieron Moore, for ITV and BritBox. By Georg Szalai Global ...

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The Midweek Read which comes tomorrow at 2 pm, was one of the most haunting and mysterious freelance stories we have printed. The author, Richard Smith, seems to have been in his early 20s when he ...

I was surprised that The Oregonian/OregonLive allowed a wine writer with no evident medical training to question the U.S. surgeon general’s widely supported opinion that alcohol should have cancer ...