49 m. ago Royal Exchange Theatre bosses apologise after review finds 'significant failures' over play cancellation

'The Board takes full responsibility for these failings and have commenced a long-term action plan in response to the report’s recommendations'

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50 m. ago Huge bag of cocaine found stashed in box of cornflakes after police burst into home

Around £6,500 worth of cocaine was found along with a Rolex watch and nitrous oxide cannisters

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64 m. ago Former Wall Street rainmaker leads purge of US chips subsidies agency

Elon Musk ally Michael Grimes has overseen shake-up of office doling out billions of dollars in semiconductor subsidies

Events

2 h. ago Mhairi Black reveals she is being tested for autism as she opens up on mental health battles

The former SNP MP said she feared she was ‘losing it’ while at Westminster

Society

2 h. ago Government should be able to order football regulator to review decisions – MP

Tory Luke Evans said unhappiness over the end of FA Cup replays could be avoided if ministers can ask a new governing body to ‘look again’.

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2 h. ago ‘One of the most bingeable comedies ever’ now streaming described as ‘charming chaos’

A brand new comedy on Disney+ is being considered one of the most binge-worthy shows of the year

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2 h. ago From Ripley to Ragnarok: Cate Blanchett’s 20 best film performances – ranked!

Ahead of her starring role in Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Black Bag, and as her London stage run in The Seagull continues, we look at the screen queen’s most commanding rolesCate Blanchett played a pretty generic “wife” role in this interesting, somewhat forgotten US comedy about air traffic controllers from director Mike Newell, whose title is their slang for guiding planes. It was saddled with a terrible ending by its screenwriters, Glen and Les Charles (creators of TV’s Cheers), and blitzed at the box office by The Matrix. Its genesis is amusingly described by its producer, Art Linson, in his memoir What Just Happened? Blanchett plays the wife of hotshot young air traffic controller John Cusack, who has an affair with Angelina Jolie – who is married to Cusack’s workplace rival, Billy Bob Thornton. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Mother admits killing baby found dumped in bin bag in woodland

Baby Callum was found close to Gulliver’s World theme park in Warrington, Cheshire, on March 14 1998

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3 h. ago Cop who arrested Justin Timberlake in the Hamptons named ‘Officer of the Year’

Justin Timberlake was caught swerving recklessly on the road in June 2024 – he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge months later

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3 h. ago Forget NuFace’s £385 microcurrent device, this £39 tool is seriously sculpting

My crow’s feet are significantly less pronounced than this time six months ago

Economics

3 h. ago Amanda Holden fans swoon over 'fabulous' skirt that's great for spring

The Britain's Got Talent judge wore a voluminous black Odd Muse skirt paired with a blue and white striped Essentiel Antwerp shirt that fans thought were 'beautiful'

Sport

3 h. ago Tributes to tragic girl, 10, killed on rugby pitch who 'was too good for this world'

Poppy Atkinson, 10, died on Wednesday after a black BMW crashed through a perimeter fence separating the pitches at Kendal Rugby Club in Cumbria

Events

3 h. ago Broncos fire assistant coach after he allegedly punched police officer in face

Michael Wilhoite to appear in court this monthAlleged incident occurred at a Denver airportThe Denver Broncos have fired one of their assistant coaches after he was accused of punching a police officer in the face.Michael Wilhoite, who played for the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks before moving into coaching, was involved in a confrontation with a police officer at Denver International Airport in February. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Lorraine Kelly hits back at viewers as she's accused of having 'filler' after injury

Lorraine Kelly has denied having 'fillers' after she was left with a swollen face and black eye following an injury

Events

3 h. ago Moment mother of baby Callum is arrested by police at her family home 27 years after killing the newborn and dumping his body in a bin bag

Bodycam footage, filmed by police officers, shows Joanne Sharkey appear unsurprised when she is told she is suspected of murdering the child, known as Callum, in July 2023.

Events

4 h. ago Hollywood actor clears £1m of debt for 900 people with his own money in heartwarming gesture

The actor 55, who has been making headlines for his kind gestures recently, started a debt acquisition company to help people in south Wales.

Economics

4 h. ago Lady Gaga lost her edge – her new album needs to bring it back

The star has spent a decade in a jazz and soft-rock haze, her newer pop efforts oddly anonymous for an artist once so electrifying. Her new album ‘Mayhem’ does feel like a return to form – but it’s her recent comments on her regained confidence as an artist that sound most promising, writes Adam White

Politics

4 h. ago Steven Soderbergh’s new thriller Black Bag about married spies is brilliant, sexy, and as tight as a drum

Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett’s espionage aces share a marital bed – but not state secrets – in this immensely pleasurable new genre outing

Politics

4 h. ago Trump is suspending aid to Ukraine – but he’s rolling over for Israel

The president’s hardball negotiating tactics are nowhere to be seen as he sends billions in new weapons to NetanyahuIn his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, Donald Trump barely mentioned Gaza or the wider Middle East, making only a passing reference to bringing back US hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza. He didn’t even expound on his plan for the US to take over the devastated territory and turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East”, while expelling 2 million Palestinians to neighboring Arab countries.But Trump is already going down the same failed path as his predecessor, Joe Biden, who sent Israel a virtually unlimited supply of weapons – and failed to use US political cover at the United Nations and billions of dollars in arms as leverage to stop Israel’s war on Gaza. On 1 March, the Trump administration announced it had approved $4bn in new weapons to Israel under emergency authorities, meaning the deal would bypass even a perfunctory review in Congr...

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4 h. ago Black Bag review – Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett intrigue in marital espionage

Steven Soderbergh’s spy comedy sends two married agents after a mole, who might turn out to be one of themThe months and years drag on with no new James Bond, no clear indication of how he is to be repurposed as IP. Into this vacuum has rushed a new generation of spy stories on streaming television: action-intelligence office procedurals such as Black Doves, The Day of the Jackal, Slow Horses and indeed The Agency, starring Michael Fassbender, remade from the French show Le Bureau Des Légendes. These are secret agent dramas that give us the violence and the tech, juxtaposing suspected treason and infidelity in the traditional way, but with a new kind of workaday realist sexiness, and more elaborately about showing up for work: much emphasis on ID badges of various security-clearance levels that beep on card readers and can be worn round your neck on lanyards.Steven Soderbergh’s downbeat, affectless tongue-in-cheek spy comedy (“caper” isn’t quite right) is in this new mode, though ta...

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