54 m. ago Celebrity Big Brother review: It’s time to put this bleak show out of its misery

Expectations weren’t high for the latest season of ‘Big Brother’s starry spin-off, but this launch still manages to disappoint

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58 m. ago Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash have new blazing row as he spends night in hotel

Exclusive: Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash are left close to breaking point as he tells her ‘I’m done’ after accusing Stacey of huge “over reaction”

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72 m. ago The King of Kings review – Charles Dickens retelling of the Jesus story does a serviceable job

The famous author tells his son and their cat the story of Jesus in this mixed-bag family animation, voiced by an impressive cast This syrupy cartoon account of the life of Jesus (voiced by Oscar Isaac) is narrated, with consummate weirdness, by Charles Dickens (Kenneth Branagh). It’s in fact based on a story Dickens wrote for his children (and wasn’t published until 1934, decades after his death). The idea is that Dickens is telling the story of the New Testament to his young son Walter (Roman Griffin Davis) and Walter’s impish cat, explaining to the King Arthur-obsessed Walter how Jesus was the real King of Kings and all that. And so we see Walter and Charles, in their mid-19th-century garb, wandering through scenes of JC’s life nearly two thousand years earlier, from the nativity to the crucifixion – much like Scrooge and his spectral buddies in A Christmas Carol as they wander through past, present and future Christmases. It rather drags out what is already a pretty long running...

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72 m. ago Love and Fury: The Extraordinary Life, Death and Legacy of Joe Meek by Darryl W Bullock – review

This richly detailed and exhaustive biography of the maverick 60s British music producer reveals a sonic visionary whose brilliance concealed a tragically violent temperJoe Meek first tasted success as a record producer when he created the eerie backdrop for John Leyton’s gothic teen melodrama, Johnny Remember Me, which reached No 1 in the British pop charts in the summer of 1961. A mere six years later, on 3 February 1967, Meek’s name entered the mainstream consciousness in the most darkly dramatic way imaginable, when the news broke that he had killed his landlady, the elderly Violet Shenton, before turning the shotgun on himself.In the time between, as Darryl Bullock notes with characteristic understatement in his richly detailed biography Love and Fury, the producer’s chaotic, but hugely creative, life was “directed by his passions and obsessions”. Continue reading...

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73 m. ago Stacey Solomon devastated for heartbroken son Zach amid fears for future

In tonight's episode of Stacey & Joe, Stacey Solomon's eldest son Zach gets some bad results which change everything for him

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2 h. ago Scholarships for child care are drying up. Now families are paying the price

Many parents need child care scholarships to work

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3 h. ago Emmerdale's Caleb Miligan star Will Ash sparks missing body riddle in shock murder twist

As Caleb grows suspicious of kidney thief Joe, another mystery is set to haunt the Emmerdale businessman when his daughter, Steph, finds out Anthony Fox's supposed grave is empty.

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3 h. ago Emmerdale's Caleb Miligan star Will Ash teases missing body twist as Steph spirals

As Steph Miligan grows increasingly suspicious of Joe Tate in Emmerdale, her father Caleb is also consumed by the fear of Jai Sharma discovering the truth about Anthony Fox's murder

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3 h. ago ‘Everyone is breathing this’: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest city

In Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, coal fires heat almost every home. But as extreme weather drives families off the steppes into the city the air is becoming more deadlySteppes and the city: how smog has become part of Mongolians’ way of life – in picturesThe eldest child was away training for the army when his family died in their sleep. All six of them, two adults and four children, were poisoned by carbon monoxide gas seeping out from their coal-fired stove into their home in Ulaanbaatar in January, the coldest month in the world’s coldest capital city.Mongolians were touched by the tragedy but there was anger a month later when, during a two-day parliamentary hearing forced by a public petition against pollution levels, the government released figures showing there had been 779 deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning in the country in the past seven years. By 19 February, when a couple in their 40s were found lifeless in their bed, that number had risen to 811. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ITV Emmerdale's Will Ash warns Caleb's feud with Joe could turn deadly in huge spoiler

After surviving an apparent stabbing, Emmerdale's Caleb is set to become suspicious of kidney thief Joe Tate - and the feud has the potential to leave one of them at death's door.

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3 h. ago ITV Emmerdale star Will Ash warns Joe Tate's kidney theft from Caleb could turn deadly

Emmerdale's Caleb Miligan is set to become increasingly suspicious of Joe Tate, but his real enemy is closer to home as his daughter Steph's mental health reaches breaking point.

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3 h. ago Taylor Ward's husband Riyad Mahrez drops bombshell as he wants a 'football team' of kids

The couple said 'I do' for the third and final time in a lavish ceremony at Lake Como and, though they already share children, Riyad is ready to welcome more babies with Taylor.

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6 h. ago Belgian prince loses legal battle to receive social security benefits on top of royal allowance

Prince Laurent had argued that his work entitled him to the same benefits as independent entrepreneurs but a court in Brussels disagreedA Belgian prince has lost a legal battle to claim social security benefits on top of his royal allowance, with a court ruling his claim – the first of its kind in the country’s nearly 200-year history – “unfounded”.Prince Laurent, the youngest of three children of the former king and queen, had argued that his work entitled him to the coverage granted to independent entrepreneurs – and that he was acting out of “principle” rather than for money. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Prince Harry's 'concern' over Meghan Markle's 'key' decision involving Archie and Lilibet

Prince Harry has been "reluctant" to show his children to the public in the past, with both he and his wife Meghan Markle speaking about their desire to keep Archie and Lilibet out of the spotlight

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7 h. ago Matildas in ‘limbo’ as Football Australia’s coach search drags on

Steph Catley admits ‘it’s hard’ to play amid uncertainty over coachLyon coach Joe Montemurro is front runner for permanent roleMatildas star Steph Catley says she hopes Football Australia finds a permanent coach “sooner rather than later”, admitting players are “in limbo”. The Matildas have been without a full-time coach for eight months since Tony Gustavsson’s official departure on August 1 after the Paris Olympics.In their 11th game under caretaker Tom Sermanni, Australia defeated South Korea 2-0 at Newcastle’s McDonald Jones Stadium to claim their first back-to-back wins of the year. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Emmerdale's Caleb Miligan 'to kill Joe Tate' as actor teases grim showdown

Emmerdale's Caleb Miligan actor Will Ash has hinted at a future grim fate for Joe Tate if the former finds out his sickening actions on the ITV soap, with a showdown teased

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9 h. ago Mother and three kids released by Ice after protests from US ‘border czar’s’ hometown

About a thousand people marched outside of Tom Homan’s home in village of less than 1,500 after family was detainedA mother and her three children who were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents as part of a sweep in the tiny hometown of the Trump administration’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, have been released following days of outcry from community figures, advocates and protesters calling for their freedom.Over the weekend, about a thousand protesters marched outside of Homan’s home in a small New York village, calling for the release of the family after they were detained last month. The family has not been named or spoken out publicly. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago What They Found review – Sam Mendes’s debut documentary has the power to change viewers for ever

This tale of two British army sergeants who filmed the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp uses their profoundly disturbing footage. It’s TV that could alter your whole world viewWhat They Found, the first documentary by the film and theatre director Sam Mendes, is a short, stark shock. The film straightforwardly combines two precious artefacts held at the Imperial War Museum in London: 35mm film, shot by Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit, before and during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near the town of Celle in northern Germany in April 1945; and audio interviews given by the cameramen in the 1980s. Lewis and Lawrie did not record sound when they visited Belsen; the words they spoke years later are the only sounds we hear.Lewis and Lawrie do not arrive at Belsen until almost halfway through the film’s 36-minute running time. First, laid over generic archive footage, we hear how they came to be a...

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9 h. ago The White Lotus season three finale review – the show’s least satisfying ending ever

The most interesting character was sidelined, the deaths were riddled with lazy logic and it all felt frustratingly middling. Season four will have some redeeming to doWarning: this article contains spoilers for the finale of season three of The White Lotus. Do not read on unless you have seen episode eight, season three.In the Hollywood Reporter’s recent oral history, Mike White bristled at the thought of The White Lotus lapsing into a formula. For most of its third season, this didn’t make a lot of sense. After all, in its depiction of the obliviously wealthy, its whodunnit structure and its now mandatory transgressive sex scenes, a lot of this year’s season felt like The White Lotus by numbers. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago I saw Ange spikiness at Celtic so it's always been there but Tottenham is ramping it up a level

Former England star Joe Hart played under Postecoglou for two years at Parkhead

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