26 m. ago Mice and rats 'stay away' from your home for good with one natural item they 'hate'

Households across London are being told about a few natural items that will repel rats and mice from an area as experts predict a surge in the pests entering homes

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2 h. ago Christy review – Sydney Sweeney fights a losing battle in cliched boxing biopic

Toronto film festival: The rising star makes for a convincing boxer inside the ring in David Michôd’s by-the-numbers drama but flounders when outsideEven before Sydney Sweeney became better known for being in the centre of an increasingly absurd culture war, the unavoidable campaign to make her Hollywood’s Next Big Thing was showing signs of fatigue. The Euphoria grad, who gave a resonant performance in Reality, scored a sleeper hit with glossed up romcom Anyone But You but audiences were more impressed than critics, including myself (I found her performance strangely stilted). There was little interest from either side in her nun horror Immaculate, and earlier this summer her incredulously plotted Apple movie Echo Valley went the way of many Apple movies (no one knows it exists).Post-thinkpieces, two of her festival duds (Eden and Americana) disappeared at the box office and she now arrives at Toronto in need of a win. And what better way to achieve that by going for an old-fashion...

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2 h. ago Steve review – Cillian Murphy is outstanding in ferocious reform school drama

Toronto film festival: adapted by Max Porter from his novella Shy and co-starring Little Simz, Emily Watson and Tracey Ullman this brutal but ultimately hopeful story is fiercely affectingProducer-star Cillian Murphy and director Tim Mielants last collaborated on a superlative adaptation of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These, and their new project together could hardly be more different: a drama suffused with gonzo energy and the death-metal chaos of emotional pain, cut with slashes of bizarre black humour. Max Porter has adapted his own 2023 novella Shy for the screen and Murphy himself gives one of his most uninhibited and demonstrative performances.Murphy is Steve, a stressed, troubled but passionately committed headteacher with a secret alcohol and substance abuse problem, in charge of a residential reform school for delinquent teenage boys some time in the mid-90s. With his staff – deputy (Tracey Ullman), therapist-counsellor (Emily Watson) and a new teacher (Little Simz) ...

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3 h. ago NYC Mayor Eric Adams says he won't quit the race and is the only one who can beat Mamdani

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said again that he won’t end his reelection campaign

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4 h. ago Keir's nightmare on Downing Street: Angela Rayner's resignation sparks chaotic reshuffle and a civil war for the soul of Labour as Yvette Cooper and David Lammy both lose their jobs

The beleaguered Deputy Prime Minister finally had to quit after a sleaze inquiry found she had failed to pay up to £40,000 tax owed on a luxury seaside apartment.

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4 h. ago Cabinet reshuffle live: Harman claims ‘there is a way back’ for Rayner after resignation in tax scandal

Keir Starmer’s major cabinet reshuffle saw a dozen cabinet positions change, including the foreign minister and home secretary

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5 h. ago Cabinet reshuffle live: Harman says ‘there is a way back’ for Rayner after resignation in tax scandal

Keir Starmer’s major cabinet reshuffle saw a dozen cabinet positions change, including the foreign minister and home secretary

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6 h. ago The Paper review – this spinoff of the US Office is dated, mediocre TV

Domhnall Gleeson stars as a clueless local newspaper editor in the mockumentary comedy’s latest creation. His talents can’t outdo the one-note dialogue and lack of hilarityTwo years after the British version concluded with a second brilliantly mortifying Christmas special in 2003, American viewers got their own take on The Office. Set at the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, it was very much in the spirit of the original, at least initially: a deadpan mockumentary centred on a megalomaniac manager (Steve Carrell’s Michael Scott), who like Ricky Gervais’s David Brent before him was “a friend first, and a boss second and probably an entertainer third”. The Office: An American Workplace ran for nine seasons, setting aside some of the original’s cringe comedy aspects in favour of something with a little more heart. By the time it ended in 2013, it was an award-winning sitcom juggernaut in its own right – hugely popular but bearing little resemblance to its Slough-b...

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6 h. ago FCC taking steps that would allow US prisons to jam prisoners' cellphone signals

Federal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates

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6 h. ago Keir Starmer makes David Lammy deputy PM as Angela Rayner resignation sparks major cabinet reshuffle

Reshuffle takes place on tumultuous day at the top of Government as Rayner forced to quit over stamp duty scandal

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7 h. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We decide if we should keep our distance from body horror 'Together'

Icky effects mix with cutting barbs for an uncomfortable exploration of a troubled relationship.

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7 h. ago 'Masterpiece' Jennifer Lawrence film has 'twisted' hidden message you won't spot

One of Jennifer Lawrence's most iconic films has left cinemagoers in awe after many are only just realising the double meaning of the movie's unsettling plot

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8 h. ago Cabinet reshuffle: All the new appointments in Sir Keir Starmer’s top team

The Prime Minister has carried out a root and branch reshuffle of the Cabinet.

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8 h. ago Starmer launches sweeping cabinet reshuffle after Rayner resigns in tax scandal

Yvette Cooper moves to Foreign Office while David Lammy becomes deputy PM and Shabana Mahmood home secretary

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8 h. ago David Mitchell talks 'desperately embarrassing' love life before 'odd' meeting with wife

David Mitchell’s luck in love turned around in 2007 when fellow comedian David Baddiel introduced him to his future wife, Victoria Coren Mitchell

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8 h. ago Keir Starmer reshuffles Cabinet after Angela Rayner quits over tax error

Keir Starmer promoted Shabana Mahmood to Home Secretary as he shuffled his pack, making David Lammy deputy PM and moving Yvette Cooper to head the Foreign Office

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9 h. ago David Tennant's wife Georgia reveals horrifying death threat with reward for her murder

Georgia Tennant has shared a terrifying message she was sent from a social media user calling for her to be murdered as she issued a plea to Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg

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9 h. ago Keir's Cabinet bloodbath: David Lammy's face says it all as he leaves No 10 after being ousted as Foreign Secretary

Keir Starmer effectively went back to the drawing board after a dismal first year in power and torrid summer of migration protests.

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10 h. ago David Lammy is the new Deputy PM: Tottenham MP and unlikely fishing buddy of JD Vance becomes UK's veep in Starmer's seismic reshuffle

On Tuesday David Lammy greeted Angela Rayner with a kiss in front of the cameras in Downing Street as she arrived for a cabinet meeting. Days later he has taken her job.

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10 h. ago Keir Starmer completes major cabinet reshuffle after Angela Rayner resigns over stamp duty scandal

Shabana Mahmood is the new Home Secretary, David Lammy will take over a Deputy Prime Minister and Steve Reed becomes Housing Secretary

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