22 minutes ago Day of the Jackal FRAUD: How novel and film led dozens of criminals to copy method of identity theft outlined by author Frederick Forsyth (who admitted he illegally tested it too)

It was a method of identity theft used by the KGB, the IRA, a disgraced MP and even the very man who showed ordinary people how to do it.

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54 minutes ago Wicked’s green skin trigger warning may feel silly – but not as silly as those crying woke

As BBFC’s Wicked warning leaves usual suspects green with anger, is a polite notice on a website really worth frothing about? Wicked has faced more than its fair share of controversies since it was first announced; from the uproar over recasting the play’s leads, to fan-made posters going viral for the wrong reasons, to the debate over people singing along to it in cinemas and ruining it for everyone.As such, Wicked does not wish to cause any more upset, which is why it has gone out of its way to cut any new controversy off at the pass. Exhibit A: the BBFC has slapped a warning on the film, alerting viewers that it features scenes of discrimination against those with green skin. Continue reading...

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67 minutes ago The Scottish castle with winter walks and charming Christmas market this weekend

For the Daily Record's latest Walk of the Week, we have chosen a historic castle in in Dumfries and Galloway that is hosting a special Christmas Fair this weekend.

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74 minutes ago Castle Douglas hair and beauty salon celebrates after being named best in Scotland

Blackburns Hair and Beauty scooped the accolade of Hair and Beauty Salon of the Year at the Scottish Beauty Industry Awards

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1 hour ago Kate Middleton breaks silence on Liz Hatton after 'brave and humble' photographer, 17, dies

The Princess of Wales, who met Liz Hatton at Windsor Castle on October 2, has paid tribute to the inspirational budding photographer who died in the early hours of Wednesday

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1 hour ago Astonishment as missing Canadian hiker emerges after weeks in wilderness

Sam Benastick, 20, discovered shivering and unsteady by two oil workers after getting lost in British Columbia wildHe returned as a ghostly apparition on a forestry road in western Canada, moving slowly and unsteadily with the help of a walking stick in each frostbitten hand. A cut-up sleeping bag was wrapped around his legs, shielding them from the bitter cold.The two oil and gas workers, who had spent the previous week surveying the trail, stared dumbfounded. When they took the sticks from his hands to help him into their truck, he nearly collapsed. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Stereophonics' drummer Jamie Morrison on 'craziest day ever' as he gives health update

Stereophonics and 86TVs drummer Jamie Morrison has given a health update from his hospital bed after falling ill moments before he was set to take to the stage

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1 hour ago Robbie Williams' ex Nicole Appleton supports him at premiere of movie depicting their rocky romance

Nicole Appleton reunited with her ex-boyfriend Robbie Williams at the premiere of his new film, Better Man, which features a dramatisation of their relationship

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1 hour ago Outlander's Sam Heughan addresses 'intense' time on show that led to a 'dark place'

Outlander actor Sam Heughan has admitted he was in a 'dark place' after an an intense period of filming on the hit show, with the second part of series seven beginning last week

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1 hour ago ‘Holding space’: Wicked has made the term famous. But what does it mean?

In the earnest press tour for the film, actor Cynthia Erivo was in tears at the idea that fans were ‘holding space’ for the song Defying Gravity. But is it more self-help jargon or something more powerful?The journalist Tracy E Gilchrist had just four minutes with the Wicked actors Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande – and she had to make them count. She just didn’t bargain on becoming part of one of the year’s most-used memes as a result of saying the phrase “holding space”. “I just went in and did my job, which was to try to get an authentic answer to a question in a very short amount of time,” she says. “It felt like the right term for what I was trying to get across to Cynthia, which is the idea that you can interact with a work of art like Defying Gravity and feel something within your...

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