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AMANDA PLATELL: Police close the Stephen Lawrence murder case, but I pray this isn’t the end

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Had he not been stabbed to death by racist thugs at a bus stop on April 22, 1993, Stephen Lawrence would now be 45 years old. This talented teenager would probably have kids and a career. He might have been an architect: aged 18, that was his dream. How heartbreaking, then, that after 27 years, … Read more

AMANDA PLATELL: How Wills turned into a right royal Goon on the Big Night In – and we loved it! 

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Who’d ever have thought it? The most reliable, and dare I say wooden, member of the younger royals stole the show with a comic turn on the BBC’s fundraiser The Big Night In. Yes, there was Prince William in a Blackadder sketch with Stephen Fry joking he wasn’t wearing any trousers! His Goon-loving dad Charles … Read more

AMANDA PLATELL: Mums need us more than ever on Mother’s Day this year amid the coronavirus crisis

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For mums across the land tomorrow, Mothering Sunday will be perhaps the most poignant — and unnerving — they’ve ever experienced.  So many elderly parents will be kept away, in self-isolation, from those they care for most. There will be no parties for them, no flowers hand-delivered to mother by those who once depended on … Read more