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“I think in many ways it probably saved my life,” says Alex George, of the antidepressant medication he started taking following his younger brother’s suicide in 2020. “I think it’s important for people to understand that sometimes, you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do to get through.”George, or “Dr Alex” as he is best known, is the medic who enjoyed an unlikely rise to fame on Love Island in 2018. Since then, he has used his considerable platform – almost two million followers on Instagram alone – to become a campaigner for mental health awareness and education. More…

American fashion icon and businesswoman Iris Apfel has died at her home in Palm Beach, Florida, aged 102.The news was confirmed on her social media accounts in the early hours of Saturday morning and by her agent, who called her “extraordinary” and said she was the personification of style. No cause of death was given. She was last pictured celebrating the Leap Year on Thursday. Instagram This content is provided by Instagram, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend…

London’s Tube and train fares will be cut on Fridays as the capital’s mayor tries to lure more people on to public transport.Sadiq Khan hopes that increasing the number of workers going to offices on Fridays will raise extra money for the hospitality sector through additional spending on lunches, after-work drinks and evening entertainment. Those using contactless and Oyster cards will be charged off-peak fares all day on Friday under the £24m trial, which runs from 8 March until the end of May.Someone travelling on the Tube from Zone 6 in outer London into Zone 1 at peak time currently…

The Royal Mail will raise the price of stamps again next month as the company struggles with a decline in the number of letters being posted.The price of a first class and second class stamp will increase by 10p to £1.35 and 85p respectively from 2 April. It comes after Royal Mail raised the cost of stamps twice in 2023.A year ago, a first class stamp cost 95p before being hiked to £1.10 in April. The price was increased again to £1.25 six months later.Chief commercial officer Nick Landon said: “We always consider price changes very carefully but we face…

The assistant director of Rust has told a court he missed a final safety check on the gun that killed the film’s cinematographer – as footage of Alec Baldwin firing blanks before the fatal shooting was shown.Hannah Gutierrez, the armourer responsible for the weapons on the set, is currently on trial in New Mexico and has pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence. Baldwin, the star and co-producer of the western film, denies involuntary manslaughter and faces a separate trial in July. He has maintained that he never pulled the gun’s trigger. Image: Alec Baldwin…

The producers of a West End show are “carefully considering” plans to hold evenings aimed at black-only audiences following criticism from Downing Street.Slave Play, which features Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington among the cast, will run from 29 June to 21 September at the Noel Coward Theatre in London. It is set to include two performances aimed at an “all-black-identifying audience” that is “free from the white gaze”.Similar “Black Out” nights were held during the show’s run on Broadway in New York in 2019, with organisers describing them as “private, invitation-only events”. Image: Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington…

A Scottish skatepark that Tony Hawk once described as a “legendary place” has been given protected status by heritage bosses.Livingston “Livi” Skatepark in West Lothian opened in 1981 and achieved international recognition due to its scale, ambition and quality. It is known for its deep bowl and attracted skaters far and wide.American professional skateboarder Tony Hawk visited the park in 1991 and described it as a “legendary place”.Historic Environment Scotland (HES) said it is the oldest surviving purpose-built skatepark in the country and has now designated it as a listed structure at category B, meaning it is an architecturally or…

Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire owner of Tesla and X, is suing artificial intelligence company OpenAI, accusing the firm of prioritising profit over developing AI for the public good. Mr Musk is bringing the suit against OpenAI, which he co-founded, and its chief executive, Sam Altman, for breaching a contract by reneging on its pledge to develop AI carefully and make the tech widely available. The company behind the ground-breaking generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, has “been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company, Microsoft”, a court filing said.Read more:How the chaos at ChatGPT maker OpenAI has…

It’s not often Mark Zuckerberg and Ivanka Trump join Bollywood stars and Indian cricketers to watch Rihanna perform. But it is also not every day that Asia’s richest man throws a lavish pre-wedding bash for his son. For the next three days, the Indian city of Jamnagar will host some of the world’s wealthiest and most famous people, who have jetted in for extravagant celebrations hosted by billionaire Mukesh Ambani.Mr Ambani’s son Anant Ambani, 28, will marry his long-time girlfriend Radhika Merchant in July, and this weekend’s festivities are a glimpse into what will follow at their nuptials.The nearly 1,200-strong…

Tide, the business banking services platform, is closing in on a share sale that will put it within touching distance of becoming the latest British fintech to attain a $1bn valuation.Sky News has learnt that Tide, which is chaired by the City grandee Sir Donald Brydon, is arranging the sale of a chunk of existing shares at a roughly 30% premium to its most recent funding round in 2021. Sources said the secondary share sale was at an advanced stage and could be finalised imminently.Tide, which launched in 2015, has amassed 575,000 small and medium-sized business customers, with a further…