42 m. ago Taggart star and 'mother of Scottish film' Paddy Higson dies aged 83

Her children Michael, Chris and Frances announced the news in a Facebook post on Monday, revealing she was 'surrounded by love' in her final hours.

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49 m. ago Britain's biggest family The Radfords face nightmare start to their US holiday as they're refused entry onto the plane

Sue and Noel Radford , from Morecambe, Lancashire, had booked for their large brood to go abroad to America, flying out together on Sunday from Gatwick Airport. But it didn't go to plan.

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49 m. ago Kate Garraway calls herself by first husband's name after revealing emotional Derek story

Kate Garraway was left red faced during this morning's Lorraine as she accidentally called herself by her first husband's name live on air

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56 m. ago Larry Lamb says he ‘suggested’ Gavin And Stacey film idea to Tim Davie

Lamb told fans to ‘keep watching’ about the possibility of a film being made.

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56 m. ago Harry Potter fans say 'spot on' as major stars confirmed in cast for TV reboot

With the hit film series set to be developed into a hit TV show for American channel HBO, fans have praised bosses' casting of who will be taking on some of the series' major roles

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64 m. ago Home Alone 2 director says he fears he will be deported if he cuts Trump cameo

Chris Columbus calls cameo ‘an albatross’ but worries he’d ‘have to go back to Italy or something’Film-maker Chris Columbus says he has come to regard Donald Trump’s cameo in his movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as “an albatross” that he wishes to remove.But, Columbus added, he fears the president’s administration would deport him if he followed through with nixing the scene from more than 30 years ago. Continue reading...

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64 m. ago ‘The grief takes your breath away’: how death transformed a loving family – and shaped a remarkable film

Nik and Maria Payne were raising their ‘wild and free’ children in the Norwegian countryside when cancer turned their lives upside down. The reluctant stars of A New Kind of Wilderness talk about a world without MariaPeace hangs over a farm in rural Norway. The last of the melting snow lingers in hummocks and bikes are strewn outside the Payne family’s small rented cottage. Nik Payne materialises from behind the barn where he has been feeding the cows. One of his three children, Falk, 12, is lying on the sofa with a fever and a Biggles novel; later, Freja, 15, and Ulv, nine (known as Wolf or Wolfie), return from school. Their home is as warm and chaotic as any family’s – boots and coats strewn in the hallway, a fridge covered in photos, shelves of books – but with a few differences: there is no television and behind the living room door is an unobtrusive, very personal shrine.The Paynes find themselves the reluctant stars of a film, A New Kind of Wilderness, which has won awards at ...

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89 m. ago Indonesia dismisses report Russia seeking to base aircraft in country as ‘simply not true’, Australia says

Australian defence minister Richard Marles says he has spoken to Indonesian counterpart about report Moscow filed official request over military aircraftIndonesia’s defence minister has said reports Russia is seeking to base military aircraft in the country “are simply not true”, according to the Australian government, after Canberra made urgent calls to Jakarta.The report from defence and security news website Janes said Moscow had filed an official request with Jakarta for permission for Russian aerospace forces (VKS) aircraft, including several long-range aircraft, to be based at a facility in Biak. Continue reading...

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95 m. ago What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sanchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde

The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberishWell, I watched every second of the buildup, flight and aftermath of the first Blue Origin all-female space trip. You’ve heard of one small step for man? This was one giant leap backwards for womankind. I’m kidding, I’m kidding! What could be more empowering or something than watching Lauren Sánchez make going to space sound like brunch with the girrrrrls. Sally Ride could never.Anyway, if you missed this, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee took an 11-minute trip to the edge of space on one of his Blue Origin craft on Monday, alongside some all-female passengers – sorry, “crew” – who included CBS anchor Gayle King and pop star Katy Perry. So yes: the Woman’s World video is no longer the most plastic feminist thing Katy’s done.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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95 m. ago Can you help us boost flight tracking at London Heathrow Airport?

Can you help us boost flight tracking at London Heathrow Airport?  Flightradar24

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1 hour ago Meghan Markle makes heartbreaking miscarriage admission as new podcast airs

The second episode in Meghan Markle's new podcast series Confessions of a Female Founder has been released - and it sees the Duchess of Sussex chat to Reshma Saujani, a lawyer and politician who founded 'Girls Who Code'

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1 hour ago New British airline opens first transatlantic flight sale – here’s how much tickets cost

Exclusive: Inaugural tickets from Glasgow to New York are 88% more expensive than corresponding flights from Edinburgh on the same dates

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1 hour ago Pontins owner charged with corporate manslaughter after nan killed by falling air conditioning duct

Grandmother Wendy Jones, 68, spent the final six months of her life in hospital before she died from the injuries she sustained when an air conditioning duct fell on her at Pontins

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1 hour ago Tortillas in New Mexico, steak in Oregon... Bigfoot in California? Why US states are adopting new symbols

Legislating isn’t always about taxes, tariffs and other serious issues. Lawmakers sometimes yearn for levity and the rare chance to find common ground

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1 hour ago CBB star says Mickey Rourke's most offensive behaviour 'could not be broadcast'

Mickey Rourke was removed from the Celebrity Big Brother house at the weekend after 'further use of inappropriate language' and it has been claimed some of what he said was too offensive to air

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2 h. ago At least 1800 hospitalised in Iraq as sandstorm halts flights and triggers power outages

Airports in Najaf and Basra temporarily shut as visibility impaired due to the sandstorm deemed to be the biggest this year

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2 h. ago Chosen Family review – fluid directing by Heather Graham ballasts enjoyable romcom

Graham denounces her toxic family and begins a new relationship, before discovering her beau’s preteen daughter to be a tiny psychopath in a tutuFor younger readers not well versed in last-century cinema, Heather Graham was one of the hottest ingenues in Hollywood throughout the 1990s; her greatest performance was arguably as Rollergirl in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights. Recently, she’s taken up writer-director duties (she made her debut in 2018 with a comedy called Half Magic) while continuing to star as well, and this sophomore effort impresses with its mildly acidic observations of contemporary mores. There aren’t exactly belly laughs in this tale of single yoga instructor Ann (Graham), but quite a few of zingers and bits that stick the landing nicely thanks to fluent direction and good comic timing from Graham and her excellent supporting cast, which is filled out by cracking actors who might not often be given as much spotlight as they get here.That’s entirely fitting giv...

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2 h. ago Netflix snaps up dystopian BBC drama dubbed 'breathtaking tour de force of television'

The science-fiction show was first aired as a limited series by the broadcaster back in 2019 and it's perfect for Black Mirror fans.

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2 h. ago Scots Health Secretary Neil Gray praises staff during visit to NHS Lanarkshire’s Flow Navigation Centre Plus

Mr Gray, who is also MSP for Airdrie & Shotts, recently visited the FNC+ hub in Bothwell to mark the launch of the Scottish Government’s Operational Improvement Plan.

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2 h. ago Meet Lesley Paterson, the triathlete who wrote Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front

Paterson competed with broken bones to get her Oscar-winning film made: ‘I find meaning through suffering’

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