Coronation Street’s Kevin Kennedy looks back: ‘I collapsed after going two days without alcohol. I knew I’d die if I carried on’ | Life and style

Actor Kevin Kennedy in 2002, as Curly Watts in UK soap opera Coronation Street, and recreating the role in 2025Kevin Kennedy in 2002 and 2025. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Grooming: Alice Theobald at Artlington Artists using Huda Beauty and got2b. Archive photograph: ITV/Shutterstock Born in 1961 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, Kevin Kennedy…

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No passes, but perfect answers

Niners John Lynch provides update on negotiations with quarterback Brock Purdy 49ers general manager John Lynch reveals at NFL Combine that the team is in negotiations with Purdy’s folks to secure him as their quarterback for the future. INDIANAPOLIS – So many eyes have been on trained on Cam Ward lately – those of NFL…

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Labour must target deprived areas or lose out to Reform, says former minister | Poverty

Keir Starmer’s government must strictly target the delivery of its core “missions” at areas of maximum deprivation or lose huge numbers of votes to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, an independent commission led by a former Labour cabinet minister will suggest this week. The Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods (ICON), chaired by Labour peer Hilary Armstrong, a…

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