19 m. ago Jennifer Abbott: Woman charged with murder of filmmaker in Camden flat

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26 m. ago Pensioner, 69, is charged with the murder of film director Jennifer Abbott in her Camden house

A 69-year-old woman has been charged with the murder of award-winning film director Jennifer Abbot in her Camden flat.

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36 m. ago North Kensington fire: Nine rescued and dozens evacuated as blaze erupts at block of flats

Trapped residents were rescued from windows and baconies

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49 m. ago The 'hellhole' London estate taken over by drug dealers: How area where film director 'was murdered for her Rolex' is overrun by homeless addicts

Jennifer Abbott, 69, was stabbed to death in her council flat in Camden on Friday just days after she was last seen by neighbours walking her pet corgi Prince.

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71 m. ago Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon review – love lights melodies through the fuzz

(Third Man Records)Will Anderson opens up on the NYC group’s third album, revealing an expansive articulacy to his take on 90s indie-rockThe third album by these New York-based indie-rockers rings some crucial changes. First, bandleader Will Anderson is in love, which alleviates some of the gloom that pervaded earlier records. And while the lyrics don’t amount to much on the page, when sung in unaffected deadpan and robed in artfully embellished shoegazey noise, Anderson’s elliptical poetics carry a compelling weight.Second, and more importantly, Anderson invited his bandmates into the studio to record Raspberry Moon. Where previous albums had been one-man affairs, with Anderson overdubbing layer upon layer of guitar and synth on his lonesome, the presence of other musicians in the room has shaken up the paradigm. Their trademark walls of fuzz remain, but Raspberry Moon also fields tracks such as Break Right, on which the happy/sad melodies flourish with space to breathe, and the lu...

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1 hour ago Flames tear through Edinburgh flat as dozens of firefighters battle blaze

Terrifying footage shows a firefighter being elevated up to the third floor while battling the ferocious blaze which had engulfed a flat.

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1 hour ago Arson, sex shops, livestreamed funerals: Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman on the wild stories in her southern gothic rock

Wednesday’s picaresque yarns have resulted in the alt-rock album of the year. At home in North Carolina, their leader explains why she likes things ‘a little bit scary’ – and what’s next after her split from bandmate MJ LendermanTo step into Karly Hartzman’s home is to see the contents of her brain shaken out. There is a fireplace mantel covered in dolls and figurines; a wooden rack filled with cassette tapes; an old doll’s house filled to the brim with fabric scraps; a few overflowing bookshelves. As the 28-year-old leader of the indie-rock band Wednesday greets me at the door, she realises a few new additions have just landed through the letterbox, some books about the history of hardcore and punk: she has been listening to both a lot and is eager to educate herself.Hartzman is a collector by nature, a habit that is also at the heart of her songwriting. Equally inspired by the southern rockers Drive-By Truckers and the shoegaze greats Swirlies, Wednesday’s sound combines heartfelt...

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1 hour ago ‘No one is immune to grief’: the team turning A Single Man into a sexy, grimy, heartbreaking ballet

Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he’s put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins’s new dance adaptation“I can’t believe that somehow I was able to make it all the way to the age of 55 without having read that book!” says American singer-songwriter John Grant. “It’s a transformative book. I was just completely blown away by it; I’ve been trying to get everybody that I’ve ever met to read it.”The book Grant is telling me about, enthusing from his sofa at home in Reykjavík, is Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man, published in 1964, turned into 2009’s most stylish film by first-time director Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth, and now about to be a ballet, premiering at this year’s Manchester international festival. Grant, the former Czars frontman and now an acclaimed solo artist (with albums including Pale Green Ghosts and his latest, The Art of...

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1 hour ago Friday’s Royal Ascot Day 4 tips: Back the favourites in two Group 1 contests

Read the latest odds and tips ahead of day four at the famed British flat racing festival

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1 hour ago 'Loving father' shot dead in suspected case of mistaken identity as Met police launch appeal

Mahad Abdi Mohamed was a ‘loving father’ who was planning to get married in the summer

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2 h. ago Heatwave shoppers 'ditch' fans for 'more effective' air conditioning unit reduced to £39 from £150

One way of keeping your home cool during a heatwave is to invest in an air conditioning unit, but this can sometimes be an expensive solution

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3 h. ago Boy, 11, killed in case of mistaken identity as gang open fire on family car

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A family of four were leaving a sporting event when two gang members opened fire at their car, killing an 11-year-old boy and leaving his cousin paralyzed

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4 h. ago How true populists should think about Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’

There is a position between the old Republican guard and budget fairyland

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4 h. ago Family of innocent 'loving father' shot dead in case of suspected mistaken identity issue desperate plea

The investigation so far has led police officers to believe whoever killed Mahad Abdi Mohamed set out to hurt someone else in a pre-meditated and targeted attack

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4 h. ago Family of 'loving father' shot dead in case of 'mistaken identity' issue desperate plea

The investigation so far has led police officers to believe whoever killed Mahad Abdi Mohamed set out to hurt someone else in a pre-meditated and targeted attack

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5 h. ago Dear Coleen: 'My friend makes me feel like a lodger in my own flat'

'She often brings people home without asking me, so I end up feeling like a lodger in my own flat.'

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5 h. ago Beautiful Spanish city with £35 flights is cheaper than Barcelona and Madrid

It's cheaper than Barcelona and Madrid, but with all of the history and charm of the more better known cities. Immensely walkable, and full of delicious food and drink - I would argue Seville is Spain's best weekend city break.

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8 h. ago Boarding school gave me PTSD but I locked it away until my daughter started to board. Then it triggered a breakdown that saw me sectioned: DR CATHY WIELD

I had just dropped my daughter off at the Royal Ballet School, where she was to be a boarder. But the trauma of my own boarding experience brought the dread and horror flooding back to me.

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8 h. ago The hellhole London estate where film director was 'murdered for her Rolex': Families say area where 69

Jennifer Abbott, 69, was stabbed to death in her council flat in Camden on Friday just days after she was last seen by neighbours walking her pet corgi Prince.

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9 h. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Lady Sally Aspinall, aunt of Prince Harry's ex Cressida Bonas, dies aged 80

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: The extraordinary life of the beautiful, twice-widowed Lady Sally Aspinall, daughter of Le Mans-winning 5th Earl Howe, ended this week at the age of 80

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