Alfie Packham
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‘I find myself weeping after almost every scene’: how seminal show 7 Up has touched your lives - AOL (opens the original)
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ITV’s landmark 7 Up documentary series has launched its final outing after 63 years. The show started following the lives of 10 boys and four girls in England when they were seven years old, and has returned every seven years since. Related: ‘It’s the Bayeux tapestry of TV!’ After six decades, the seminal series bows out with 70 Up As the final season 70 Up reaches its conclusion, seven people tell us what it has meant to them over the decades – along with pictures of themselves contrasting thei
‘You’re fired!’ The TV shows you can’t stomach any more - AOL (opens the original)
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We loved this show for the first four or five seasons. It had a really good mix of candidates, different ages and walks of life. I think it was after season nine that we started to feel the programme was losing its authenticity. Contestants started to look like homogenous Love Islanders, all the same demographic – 20-30 age bracket, highly polished body image, eye on a post-show influencer career, etc. It lost its uniqueness and became just another reality show. Ngaire Vine, 56, Derbyshire Relat
‘Baggage reclaim was pandemonium’: passengers hit by airport IT chaos in UK recount their ordeals - AOL (opens the original)
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More than 2,000 flights have been cancelled after an air traffic control system failure that has thrown airports across the UK into chaos. Nats, the air traffic control provider, fixed the problem within hours on Tuesday, but hundreds of thousands of passengers were hit by further delays and cancellations on Wednesday. Martin Rolfe, the chief executive of Nats, has been given a week to report back on the reasons for the technical failure. People affected by the disruption talked about their frus
‘It destroyed me’ – your top true-crime TV shows of all time - AOL (opens the original)
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I watched the BBC’s Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared when it came out and Damien Nettles, its subject, still pops up in my mind sometimes. It’s a comprehensive, empathetic and gripping investigation into a case I had never heard of. The Serial/Making a Murderer-style approach of showing the investigation, rather than just presenting information, gives the series a much more human angle. I thought it might turn up new evidence; that level of faith in the work being shown is a testament to how th
‘I don’t think I’ll ever retire’: the workers struggling to save for old age - AOL (opens the original)
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“I am 35 and have essentially nothing saved for my future, which is a huge concern.” Sarah* works in library services in Oxford – full-time at one library and part-time at another. She has saved £5,000 into her pension. After finishing her PhD in 2020, she said she had “good intentions of contributing to pension schemes. But because I then had a succession of part-time jobs, I never started. I never thought, this is a job I’ll be doing for long enough.” Sarah is part of a growing cohort in Brita
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