Jill Lawless, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

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Kate, Princess of Wales, reveals she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy

by Brian Melley Associated Press, and Jill Lawless Associated PressMarch 22, 2024

LONDON — Kate, the Princess of Wales, has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy, she revealed Friday in a stunning announcement that followed weeks of speculation about her health and whereabouts.The princess disclosed her condition in a video message…

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Pogues singer Shane MacGowan, a laureate of booze and beauty, dies at 65

by Jill Lawless Associated Press, and Dave Bryan Associated PressNovember 30, 2023

A protestor with a megaphone shouts slogans in front of Big Ben as nurses of the nearby St. Thomas' Hospital protest in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance staff are walking off the job in the U.K. in what unions called the biggest strike in the history of the country's public health system. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

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UK nurses, ambulance crews strike, straining health system

by Jill Lawless Associated PressFebruary 6, 2023

Britain’s Prince Harry, 18, punches the air as he leaves Eton College on his last day at the school on June 12, 2003.

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Prince Harry’s book exposes grief, war, drugs, family rifts

by Jill Lawless Associated PressJanuary 6, 2023

Office workers in London, watch the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's controversial documentary being aired on Netflix Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Britain’s monarchy is bracing for more bombshells to be lobbed over the palace gates as Netflix releases the first three episodes of a new series. The show “Harry & Meghan” promises to tell the “full truth” about Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s estrangement from the royal family. The series debuted Thursday. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

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Harry and Meghan slam British tabloids in new Netflix series

by Danica Kirka Associated Press, and Jill Lawless Associated PressDecember 8, 2022

Liz Barham, senior conservator of the Museum of London Archaeology, displays an early medieval gold and gemstone necklace during a photo call, in London, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Archaeologists say a 1,300-year-old gold and gemstone necklace found during construction of a housing development marks the grave of a powerful woman who may have been an Anglo-Saxon aristocrat or early Christian religious leader in Britain. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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Dig at UK housing site yields major 7th century treasures

by Jill Lawless Associated PressDecember 6, 2022

Rishi Sunak outside his home in London, following the resignation of Liz Truss as Prime Minister, Friday Oct. 21, 2022. British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned Thursday, bowing to the inevitable after a tumultuous, short-lived term in which her policies triggered turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party that obliterated her authority. (Beresford Hodge/PA via AP)

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Johnson, ousted by scandal, eyes comeback in UK

by Jill Lawless Associated PressOctober 21, 2022

Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss addresses the media in Downing Street in London, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. Truss says she resigns as leader of UK Conservative Party. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

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Truss quits, but UK’s political and economic turmoil persist

by Jill Lawless Associated PressOctober 20, 2022

Jeremy Hunt leaves 10 Downing Street in London after he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer following the resignation of Kwasi Kwarteng, Friday Oct. 14, 2022. Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng said he has accepted Prime Minister Liz Truss' request he "stand aside" as Chancellor, paying the price for the chaos unleashed by his mini-budget. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

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UK leader in peril after Treasury chief axes ‘Trussonomics’

by Jill Lawless Associated Press, and Danica Kirka Associated PressOctober 17, 2022

French author Annie Ernaux leaves her home in Cergy-Pontoise, outside Paris, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. The 82-year-old was cited for "the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory," the Nobel committee said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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France’s Ernaux wins Nobel in literature

by Jeffrey Schaeffer Associated Press, David Keyton Associated Press, and Jill Lawless Associated PressOctober 6, 2022