6 d. ago ‘A momentous day’: families of Britons killed in 1980 oil rig disaster finally win compensation

Norway will set up state payment scheme for families of 123 men killed in Kielland disaster, but some feel it comes too late“I think we all feel like we’ve had a bit of a weight lifted off our shoulders,” said Laura Fleming after an important milestone in one of Europe’s longest-running industrial disaster sagas. “It is just 45 years too late.”Fleming’s father, Michael, was one of 123 men who were killed when the Alexander L Kielland accommodation rig capsized during a fierce storm in the Norwegian North Sea oilfields on 27 March 1980. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Adolescence star Stephen Graham had 'emergency surgery' performed on plane

The actor is being tipped for awards' success for his Netflix show

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8 d. ago Stephen Graham has emergency surgery on a plane after realising 'something didn't feel right'

The Adolescence star, 51, had the operation in the lounge area between the economy and first class sections

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9 d. ago Netflix Adolescence star Owen Cooper takes swipe at 'just terrible' American icons

The 15-year-old rising star Owen Cooper - who shot to fame after staring in Netflix's Adolescence - appeared on The Tonight Show speaking to Jimmy Fallon and shocked the host with his comments.

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9 d. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper shocks Jimmy Fallon as he calls American icons 'nonsense'

Owen Cooper, the breakout star of hit Netflix drama Adolescence, took aim at a staple of American culture as he revealed a video message he received from Leonardo DiCaprio

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9 d. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper makes blunt jibe about 'just terrible' US icons

Owen Cooper, the 15-year-old who was lauded for his leading role in Netflix drama Adolescence, appeared on The Tonight Show on Tuesday - and shocked Jimmy Fallon

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9 d. ago Adolescence star Owen Cooper, 15, shocks The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon as he reveals what he hates about America

Adolescence star Owen Cooper shocked Jimmy Fallon as he revealed what he hates about being in America during his appearance on The Tonight Show on Tuesday.

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1 week ago Adolescence breakout star Owen Cooper reacts to winning first big award for hit show

Teenager had never booked an acting job before filming the hit Netflix show

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1 week ago Adolescence star, 15, wins big at Gotham TV Awards after getting the day off school

Cooper, who was allowed to extend his half-term holidays from school so he could attend the glamorous event, tied for the award with Dying of Sex star Jenny Slate, 43.

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2 w. ago Adolescence star Ashley Walters says show changed the way he parents his children

Actor revealed extent of how the hit show affected his home life

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2 w. ago Adolescence star Ashley Walters admits Netflix show taught him he's been 'too liberal and easy

The four-part series received critical acclaim when it hit the streaming service in March, and centres on a 13-year-old boy accused of murdering a schoolgirl.

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3 w. ago 2 books celebrating New York City culture and community win the Gotham Prize

This year’s winners of the Gotham Book Prize celebrate New York City as experienced on foot, bus and train

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3 w. ago ‘Her need to make is off the scale’: why Nnena Kalu’s Turner prize nomination is a watershed moment for art

The Glasgow-born artist makes huge cocoon-like sculptures out of found fabric and videotape. We meet the team who helped her become the first learning-disabled person to make the award shortlistOne day, out of the blue, everything changed for Nnena Kalu. For more than a decade, she’d been making a certain kind of drawing, in a certain kind of way – repeated shapes, clusters of colour, all organised in rows. “Then, in 2013, she just suddenly started to go whoosh,” says Charlotte Hollinshead, Kalu’s studio manager and artistic facilitator, making big, swirling, circular hand gestures. “Everybody in the studio just stopped. She was somebody who had such a set way of working, for years and years and years, repeated over and over. For this to suddenly change was really quite shocking.” It was a shock that would set Kalu on the path to becoming the first learning-disabled artist to be nominated for the Turner prize, as she was last month.Her drawings are incredible: vast, hypnotic, swirli...

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3 w. ago Yorkshire restaurant ‘honoured’ as Bruce Springsteen and Stephen Graham drop in for lunch

The ‘Adolescence’ star plays Springsteen’s late father in an upcoming biopic

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