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The Irish comedian and actress Aisling Bea has announced that she is expecting her first child.The 40-year-old shared the news on Instagram, posting a series of photos showing her performing as a backing dancer for Sheryl Crow at a charity event in Kansas City – with her bump very much front and centre. A short video showed her dancing on stage at Big Slick ’24 alongside American comedian Seth Herzog, with both concealing their faces while dancing with their bare stomachs out, with cartoon faces drawn on in black pen.A host of other celebrities appeared with Bea in the snaps,…

Going on holiday is always a cause for celebration – and many travellers will toast the occasion with an alcoholic beverage before taking a nap on the plane.But according to a new study – holidaymakers may want to reconsider this ritual. German scientists have found the combination of in-flight alcohol and cabin pressure at cruising altitude may put strain on sleeping passengers’ hearts.They discovered that when people fall asleep after drinking alcohol at the low air pressures typically experienced during flights, blood oxygen levels drop and heart rates increase – even in those who are healthy and young.”We were surprised…

Janis Paige, a popular Hollywood and Broadway actress who danced with Fred Astaire, has died aged 101.Paige also toured with US comedy giant Bob Hope during her career which continued into her 80s. She died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles on Sunday, her long-time friend Stuart Lampert said on Monday.Paige made her Broadway debut opposite Jackie Cooper in mystery comedy Remains To Be Seen in 1951, and appeared with John Raitt in smash hit musical The Pajama Game three years later.In 1957 she appeared opposite iconic dancer Astaire in the film Silk Stockings. The movie is…

A 91-year-old man has become the first person in England to be fitted with a ground-breaking artificial cornea.Cecil ‘John’ Farley, 91, said his sight was now improving thanks to the procedure, which he underwent after 15 years of suffering from problems with his eyes. The cornea is the clear outer layer at the front of the eyeball – and is described by the NHS as the “window to the eye”.A person can suffer from vision problems and pain if the thin transparent covering is damaged by disease or injury – with those affected often left facing a long wait for…

Reality TV star Joey Essex has entered the Love Island villa as the show’s first ever celebrity contestant.The 33-year-old, who rose to fame on The Only Way Is Essex, has said he is taking part in the show because he is “extremely single right now” and hopes to leave the island “hand in hand with the love of my life”. The ITV dating series returned on Monday, introducing more contestants to the villa in Majorca, Spain, with host Maya Jama making an entrance in a white dress.Jama told the contestants: “Well it’s good to see you’re all settled in, as…

The founder of Getir, the grocery delivery app which is exiting the UK with the loss of hundreds of jobs, is at odds with investors over a rescue plan to keep the company afloat.Sky News has learnt that Getir is just weeks away from running out of cash amid shareholder demands to overhaul the governance and leadership of the company. Sources said on Monday that a tranche of funding worth tens of millions of pounds needed to restructure Getir’s Turkish business would not be handed over unless Nazim Salur, the company’s founder, implemented previously agreed changes.These would include him stepping…

The Chinese fast fashion giant Shein appears to be moving towards London, rather than New York, for its planned stock market listing.On the face of it, this would be an enormous fillip for London, especially given the soul-searching last year over its attractiveness after a clutch of big UK and Irish companies moved their main stock market listing to New York. Money blog: Rolex increases prices – here’s how much one will set you backThere will doubtless be some degree of cynicism about Shein’s decision to list in London, rather than New York. It will be suggested, for example, that…

The stock market influencer behind the so-called meme stock frenzy of 2021 has triggered a fresh surge in shares of GameStop, the struggling US videogame retailer.Keith Gill, who goes by the name Roaring Kitty online, revealed a $116m (£90.8m) position in GameStop on Sunday. Gill told his followers he controlled 1.8% of GameStop’s available stock – a holding of five million shares – plus call options that gave him the right to buy more later this month.Money latest:HSBC announces mortgage rate increasesA return to his Reddit account last month, for the first time in three years, was credited then for…

What are your rights if you’ve returned an item by post and the company says they never received it? Or if your delivery never turned up in the first place?Money blog reader Lee asked: “I purchased two pairs of shorts from Nike a year ago. I shortly after returned them for a refund as they didn’t suit me. Nike are saying I can’t be refunded due to them not receiving the returned items. Even though I have supplied the Royal Mail proof of postage.” We asked consumer rights champion Scott Dixon, also known as The Complaints Resolver, to answer this…

Wholesale costs for natural gas have hit their highest levels across Europe since December last year after key Norwegian export operations were shut down due to a cracked pipe.The damage, discovered aboard the Sleipner Riser platform, prompted wider energy infrastructure to be halted including the Nyhamna processing plant which exports gas to the UK, pipeline operator Gassco said. Alfred Hansen, the company’s head of pipeline system operations, told the Reuters news agency: “This has big consequences from a supply perspective.”Money latest:First direct flight to Vegas from the North launchesHe added that while there were options for bypassing Sleipner, they were…