90 m. ago Olivia Attwood reveals truth about her marriage to Bradley Dack

Olivia Attwood has opened up about her relationship with Bradley Dack as she states "we’re not perfect people, we don’t have a perfect relationship"

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2 h. ago Adam Wharton injury timeline revealed as Crystal Palace star turns down England call

The Eagles’ midfield metronome could miss the club’s first Conference League group stage outing

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2 h. ago Hamilton and East Kilbride performers set for stage show with Minerva theatre group

The group are getting set for their production of musical 9 to 5 later this month

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2 h. ago Man United decision 'made' after Grimsby fine, EFL statement and replay question

Manchester United were knocked out of the Carabao Cup last week following a 12-11 penalty shootout defeat to League Two Grimsby Town

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3 h. ago Helen Flanagan transforms into the evil stepmother ahead of her pantomime debut in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs in Liverpool

Helen Flanagan transformed into the evil stepmother ahead of her pantomime debut in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs in Liverpool this Christmas.

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3 h. ago Why trans art matters more than ever: ‘It reflects how people live and love’

After the controversy over Amy Sherald’s portrait of a trans Statue of Liberty, trans artists speak about why their work speaks to an important momentPart of the magic of portraiture is how it renders so much of the human experience accessible to us, things we might never see otherwise. This has been very much on Black artist Amy Sherald’s mind. When I spoke to her in advance of the debut of her exhibition American Sublime, she told me that Black representation was foundational to her practice: “I developed this idea that, when I look at art history, for the most part I don’t see portraits of people that look like me. So it started there.”That exhibition’s curator, Sarah Roberts, also spoke about Sherald’s passion for representing the LGBTQ+ community: “Amy has thought a lot about her role as an artist and the need for representation, and she has long been a champion of LGBTQ+ rights. This work is thinking about who gets depicted as being American.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Jonas Vingegaard reclaims Vuelta a Espana lead as Jay Vine wins second stage

The Australian doubled up after winning stage six on an otherwise complicated day for his UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad

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3 h. ago A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonationKathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests narrative forms and thinkability levels. Maybe this is why we prefer to see it as something for absurdism and satire – a way of not staring into the sun – to remember Kubrick’s (brilliant) black comedy Dr Strangelove, with no fighting in the war room etc, rather than Lumet’s deadly serious Fail Safe. Bigelow, with screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, broaches one of the most frightening thoughts of all: that a nuclear war could or rather will start with no one knowing who started it or who ended it. I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.Th...

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3 h. ago A House of Dynamite, Venice review – The most entertaining movie about mass destruction since Dr Strangelove

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris and Tracy Letts are among the many recognisable names adding gravitas to this punchy Netflix thriller

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3 h. ago Markram smashes South Africa to big first ODI victory after England collapse

England 131; South Africa 137-3; SA win by seven wicketsSonny Baker endures nightmare debut with ballThey say that if you fail to prepare you should prepare to fail, and it turns out that is what England were doing across the two understaffed days of training with which they launched themselves into this series. They proceeded to get bowled out for 131 in 24.3 overs, losing their last seven wickets for just 29 runs, before Aiden Markram humbled their bowlers in propelling South Africa towards victory by seven wickets, sealed with 175 balls to spare.A week ahead of this match Temba Bavuma’s team were in the middle of a convoluted, lengthy journey from Queensland to Yorkshire via Sydney, Singapore and London. But it was England who looked jetlagged by the less long-distance but more recent whiplash turnaround from the Hundred, in which several squad members, if only two of those selected for this series opener, were engaged 48 hours earlier. In their absence the team’s first training ...

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3 h. ago Sonny Baker endures nightmare debut as South Africa dominate first ODI

England 131; South Africa 137-3; SA win by seven wicketsMarkram smashes 55-ball 86 after England collapseThey say that if you fail to prepare you should prepare to fail, and it turns out that is what England were doing across the two understaffed days of training with which they launched themselves into this series.England proceeded to get bowled out for 131 in 24.3 overs before Aiden Markram humbled their bowlers – picking on the debutant Sonny Baker – and propelled South Africa towards victory by seven wickets, sealed with 175 balls to spare. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Sonny Baker endures nightmare debut as sorry England crushed by South Africa

Baker served up seven wicketless overs for 76.

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4 h. ago England thrashed by South Africa with 175 balls to spare: first men’s one

England are skittled for 131 at HeadingleyBaker set for debut as Overton takes ‘indefinite break’1st over: England 8-0 (Duckett 0, Smith 8) Burger with the first over. Tall, broad, left arm, a shadow of a moustache, a doormat of a goatee, and Smith plays the first three balls watchfully away. Balls five and six however, go for four, one sent away at 27 minutes past the hour, one at 27 minutes to.Our man on the ground, Simon Burnton, reports a ground half full and filling up quickly, as the players prepare to walk through a welcoming committee of flag-waving women over 40. Just add that to our skill set. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago 3 men deported by US are being held in an African prison without charge, lawyers say

Three men deported by the U.S. to Eswatini in July have been held in a maximum-security prison without charge for seven weeks

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4 h. ago Emmerdale's Bradley Riches admits it's 'a lot' as he reaches soap milestone

The Lewis Barton actor arrived in the Dales four months ago, and celebrated his first soap debut on social media

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4 h. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

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4 h. ago Rudy Giuliani leaves the hospital after being injured in a car crash in New Hampshire

Rudy Giuliani has been released from the hospital after being injured in a car accident in New Hampshire

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4 h. ago Man jailed for murder of former Manchester Grammar School teacher to have conviction reviewed

Benjamin Field was jailed in October 2019 after being convicted of the murder of Peter Farquhar

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5 h. ago Trump administration restrictions on Palestinian visa applicants means nearly all would be refused

The Trump administration is piling new restrictions on Palestinian visa applicants, making it nearly impossible for anyone holding a Palestinian Authority passport from receiving travel documents to visit the U.S. for business, work, pleasure or educational purposes

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5 h. ago Alexander Isak releases statement to Newcastle fans after ‘unforgettable years’

Isak has thanked the club for “three unforgettable years” following his move to Liverpool

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