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This World Heart Day, the British Heart Foundation has teamed up with world renowned photographer Rankin to launch an international art project with creatives from around the world, to raise awareness of the global fight against heart disease.

‘Heart for a Heart’ has seen celebrated artists, celebrities, photographers, and brands from around the world unite against heart disease by creating unique heart-themed artwork and uploading them to social media in celebration of World Heart Day.

The social media movement aims to raise awareness of heart and circulatory disease – the leading cause of death worldwide. In the UK alone, nearly 160,000 lives are lost to these devastating conditions each year, one every three minutes. Globally it causes an estimated 17.7 million deaths a year.

Among those taking part include actors Simon Pegg, Carey Mulligan, Anna Friel, Nicholas Hoult, Gillian Anderson, Sadie Frost, Ashley Margolis, Max Beesley, Noel Anthony Clarke, and Emma Pierson; TV personalities Holly Willoughby,...

Glenda Jackson: Actress and former Labour MP. Two-time Oscar winner and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson returns to acting Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson set aside her acting career after becoming a Labour Party MP in 1992. Four years ago, Jackson, who represented the Greater London constituency of Hampstead and Highgate, announced that she would stand down the 2015 general election – which, somewhat controversially, was won by right-wing prime minister David Cameron's Conservative party.[1] The silver lining: following a two-decade-plus break, Glenda Jackson is returning to acting. Now, Jackson isn't – for the time being – returning to acting in front of the camera. The 79-year-old is to be featured in the Radio 4 series Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money, described on their website as a “mash-up” adaptation of 20 Emile Zola novels collectively known as "Les Rougon-Macquart."[2] Part 1 of the three-part Radio 4 series will be broadcast daily during an...

Hollyoaks star Ashley Margolis has announced that he will not be leaving the soap after all. Back in May, the actor confirmed that he was to bow out from his role as Ricky Campbell alongside his on-screen best friend Dean Aspen, who plays Duncan Button. However, writing on Twitter last night, Margolis revealed that there has been a change of plan following fresh meetings with show bosses. Margolis told his online followers: "So.. to answer one of your questions that keeps coming up.. I am not leaving the Oaks now.. staying! There are lots of things coming up that makes it hard to turn down.. so enjoy Ricky! He's going nowhere yet!!" He added: "Dean is still leaving.. I wonder what it will (more)...

Hollyoaks will bid farewell to a trio of male characters in the coming months as three actors have decided to leave the soap, Digital Spy can exclusively reveal. Show bosses have confirmed that Alex Carter is to bow out from the teen drama after nearly a year back on screen as Lee Hunter, while Dean Aspen and Ashley Margolis have also chosen to depart their roles as double act Duncan Button and Ricky Campbell. After spending a decade in soapland while starring in Hollyoaks and Emmerdale, 28-year-old Carter is now hoping to pursue other opportunities. Speaking of his decision, the actor told Digital Spy: "After ten years in soap, it feels like the right time to find out what else is out there." He laughed: "I'm so grateful to Hollyoaks for giving me my first break and I'll be gutted to leave behind some really good (more)...

Ashley Margolis has revealed that he feels privileged to be part of his challenging new Hollyoaks storyline. In Friday's episode of the soap, it will be revealed that Margolis's character Ricky Campbell is a carer for his father Martin (Grant Masters), who suffers from Ms. Discussing the new plot, Margolis told Pa: "I was so grateful I was given the opportunity to do it. Having done research on it, about what young carers have to go through every day, [you realise] it's a hard life. "It's brilliant what they do and hopefully this storyline will get (more)...