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Heartbeat and Blackadder actor Peter Benson diesHeartbeat actor Peter Benson, who played Bernie Scripps in the popular ITV series for 18 years, has died, his manager said.Benson died aged 75 on Thursday after a short illness.In the police drama set in the 1960s, he played a funeral director who got into disastrous money-making schemes. He appeared in all 18 series from 1992.Benson also played Henry VII in BBC comedy Blackadder, and appeared more recently in hospital drama, Casualty.
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Greek PM promises relief measures after years of austerityAlexis Tsipras pledges to raise wages, cut taxes and boost welfare spendingGreek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has announced a raft of relief measures “to mend wounds” created during Greece’s prolonged economic crisis, as he attempts to recover the popularity he has lost since enforcing contentious austerity measures.
Greece will not cut pensions or raise taxes, Tsipras saysPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras, seeking re-election next year, said yesterday/Sunday that Greece would not need to cut pensions or raise taxes as planned because it was beating the budget targets agreed with its lenders.Tsipras, a leftist elected in 2015 but trailing badly in opinion polls, also pledged not to row back on those targets now that Greece has emerged from almost a decade of financial bailouts and enforced austerity. Tsipras used a trade fair in Thessaloniki to announce sweeping tax breaks in the next few years, as well as ruling out an early election.
