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25 years on from Wannabe and we still really, really, really wanna look like Spice Girls.
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04/07/2021 05:00am BST
It’s 25 years since the Spice Girls ‘zigazig ah-d’ their way into our hearts with the release of Wannabe – and the fabulous five are still influencing us today.
‘Girl Power’ – though dismissed by some as a frivolous attempt at feminism – really did introduce a generation of girls to the concept of sisterhood. Mel C proved girls could wear football shirts. Mel B refused to be quiet. Geri refused to be well-behaved. Emma and Posh, while more traditionally sweet and stylish, showed you can be both of those things
by Tessa Boase (Aurum £9.99, 320 pp)
Sitting in a London church in 1887, a young woman gazed over the congregation and the sea of elegant ladies’ hats.
In her notebook, she jotted down the names of the birds whose feathers decorated those hats swallows, robins, blue tits, chaffinches, hummingbirds and even eagles and herons. Just as she did every week, she would write to each of the hat wearers, calmly describing the slaughter of the birds who had ended up as their fashion accessories.
Today, her name is almost entirely forgotten. Yet, as this beguiling book shows, Etta Lemon is one of the great heroines of British nature conservation. Her long and doughty campaign against ‘murderous millinery’ led to the founding of the Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds (RSPB) and saved millions of birds.
Sydney police fine 2 nude men for violating COVID-19 lockdown rules
AUSTRALIA Two men sunbathing nude at a park beach in June ran into the bushland after being scared by an aggressive deer, causing them to get lost and need emergency rescue, according to the LGBTQ publication Star Observer.
The two men called emergency services, and police sent a helicopter, an ambulance and searchers to the gay nude beach area 25 miles south of Sydney to locate the unclothed 30- and 49-year-old men.
Police fined the two men $1,000 each and issued citations to 42 others for breaching public health orders. Sydney is under a lockdown until July 9 as health officials try to stem a new COVID-19 outbreak. Travel outside of Sydney is prohibited.
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