6 h. ago ‘Death is complicated and kaleidoscopically beautiful’: Jerskin Fendrix on his emotional new album – and life after Oscar success

The British composer broke into Hollywood as Yorgos Lanthimos’s go-to guy on Poor Things and more. But his heart remains in Shropshire – the backdrop to his ambitious, grief-stricken latest recordThe sun is shining, birds are tweeting and a river gently flows just yards away as Jerskin Fendrix tells me about his love of growing up in Shropshire. “It was so gorgeous and majestic,” he says, sitting in the garden of a friend’s house where he spent a lot of time in his youth. “It was nature, forests and hills and then just normal teenage life. The combination of this numinous, big landscape and getting wasted in a cornfield with your mates listening to Kanye West on a Bluetooth speaker while seeing a massive sunset.”Such vivid scenes fill his latest album, Once Upon a Time in Shropshire. The opening track, Beth’s Farm, captures an idyllic scene where animals roam and rural teens party. “I thought it was a really nice symbol of this naive innocence,” he says. “Trying to get across how bu...

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35 h. ago Inside Kaleb Cooper's life in stunning market town with average house price of £380k

Kaleb Cooper is known for his role on Amazon Prime's Clarkson's Farm, where he works with Jeremy Clarkson at Diddly Squat farm - but at home, he leads a rather normal life.

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54 h. ago California man escaped from prison 30 years ago and vanished. Cops just found him living a normal life 150 miles away

Ronald Keith Harvey escaped from FCI Dublin in 1994 while serving time for running a large-scale illegal marijuana operation

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3 d. ago ‘I don’t want my boy to be positive’: pregnant women face sky

As the withdrawal of US funding disrupts treatment and halts crucial research in South Africa, clinics fear the resurgence of mother-to-child transmission of the virusPhotographs by Chris de Beer-ProcterAphelele Mafilika was born HIV positive in 2004. Put on antiretrovirals (ARVs) as a baby, she has been on the life-saving medication ever since and has lived a normal life. No longer. “Now, I have a problem,” she says.For most of her life her viral load (the amount of HIV in her blood) has been undetectable. “When I went for my February clinic visit, I didn’t get my pills. They told me ‘shortage of staff’ and ‘come back another day’. I came back a few times, but it was the same story.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ‘No Kings’ protests live updates: Cops use tear gas to disperse anti

Day of action comes after week-long protests in Los Angeles against Trump’s hard-line immigration policies and ICE raids on immigrants

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4 d. ago ‘No Kings’ protests live updates: Cops use smoke and gas to disperse crowd in Los Angeles

Day of action comes after week-long protests in Los Angeles against Trump’s hard-line immigration policies and ICE raids on immigrants

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5 d. ago Liverpool cops release new statement after arrest of 'gangland' shooting suspect

The arrest is in connection with the fatal shooting of Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr in Monaghans, Fuengirola on May 31.

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7 d. ago Air India Ahmedabad Plane Crash Live Updates: Ahmedabad top cop says 'it appears there are no survivors'

Air India Ahmedabad Plane Crash Live Updates: Ahmedabad top cop says 'it appears there are no survivors'  Times of India

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1 week ago The six million skeletons hidden in over 150 miles of tunnels under Paris' streets

From the Eiffel Tower to the Louvre, Paris' top tourist attractions draw around 50 million visitors to the French capital every year. But many travellers miss one of the city's more curious landmarks...

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1 week ago Anthea Turner admits to having Botox and fillers to cope with the pressures of being on TV

Former Blue Peter star Anthea Turner said she had Botox and fillers to help cope with the demands of appearing on live TV and the 'pressure to look a certain way'

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2 w. ago Skepta admits he 'hates being famous' and 'dreams of going back to his normal life' as he teases his next album will be 'best he's ever made'

Since bursting on the scene with his debut album in 2007, the grime star, 42, has gone on to win the Mercury Prize and conquered the worlds of music, fashion, modelling and film.

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2 w. ago Netflix star suffers 'mangled' injury that left him needing surgery

Skins star Sebastian de Souza - who has also appeared in shows like Normal People and more recently the Netflix film the Life List - has shared that he needed surgery last month

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2 w. ago 'I was a child star in ET and after the film my life was never normal again'

Henry Thomas, now 53, shot to fame at the age of 10 when he was cast as Elliot in Steven Spielberg's iconic 1982 film

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2 w. ago Jamie Carragher has Liverpool transfer theory with Arne Slot blocked from copying Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool have come flying out of the blocks in this summer's transfer window, but Jamie Carragher is not convinced Arne Slot will have the same power as Jurgen Klopp

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann Portugal search Live as disgraced cop shares sick theory

Disgraced former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral has branded the new Madeleine McCann searches over the top and wheeled out a sick theory about her disappearance

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann search LIVE: Cops seen at abandoned farmhouse as sick theory shared

Disgraced former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral has branded the new Madeleine McCann searches over the top and wheeled out a sick theory about her disappearance

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann: where the family are now, from Kate's moving memoir to the brother tipped for the Olympics

Gerry and Kate McCann recently said they and their twin children were grateful to be able to “live a relatively normal and enjoyable life now”, with Maddie’s siblings studying at university and Gerry working as a heart specialist. Katie Strick reports

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2 w. ago Unseen Liverpool parade images raise more questions as cop 'couldn't believe' his eyes

Attendees of Liverpool FC's Premier League victory parade reported chaotic scenes along the 15km route, with vehicles - including heavy goods lorries - sharing roads with dense crowds

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3 w. ago Liverpool parade crash driver charged as cops release name of 'normal dad'

The man arrested on Monday after a vehicle crashed into fans celebrating Liverpool's Premier League victory on Monday has been named as Paul Doyle, 53 of West Derby

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3 w. ago LIVE: Liverpool Parade crash cops charge Paul Doyle, 53, over incident

The force will provide an update at 5pm after 79 people were injured in the collision in the city centre on Monday (May 26)

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