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Gadd’s smash hit “Baby Reindeer” hadn’t premiered when the nine-month, five-round search for young Niall and Ruben started, with the success of Gadd’s Emmy-winning Netflix series contributing to various postponements on “Half Man.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said she thinks scheduled local elections should go ahead this May and has dismissed Conservative councils who have asked for postponements as local government is reorganised as "outliers".

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

The case has been closely monitored by human rights groups including Amal Clooney's Clooney Foundation for Justice, which in October questioned the lengthy detainment, citing "repeated postponements and slow progress".

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

Despite the attempt to keep services going, patients like Colette Houlihan, 68, have still had to face postponements.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

The other war, the bloody one of twenty years, did not cause them as much damage as the corrosive war of eternal postponements.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez