31 h. ago Constance Marten’s partner tells court ‘no laws on how to raise your children’

Marten and Mark Gordon have denied the gross negligence manslaughter of their daughter Victoria and causing or allowing her death in 2023.

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54 h. ago Constance Marten’s partner tells court prosecution case is ‘like a movie script’

Mark Gordon, 51, told jurors: ‘The whole prosecution in this case is like a script from a movie, indeed a fictional novel’

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7 d. ago Six words that became 'greatest movie quote ever' was never part of script

As Jaws 50th anniversary approaches, we take a look at the making of Steven Spielberg;s blockbuster movie and the star Roy Schneider add libbed "the greatest in movie history."

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9 d. ago Simon Yates rides away with prize of Giro d’Italia while rivals lose the plot | William Fotheringham

Del Toro and Carapaz became distracted by each other, allowing the Lancastrian to claim a second Grand TourThe Mexican standoff is a much-loved cinematic device, but the stalemate beloved of western movie script writers has rarely, if ever, decided one of cycling’s Grand Tours. The 2025 Giro d’Italia was the exception, appositely as the biggest loser was an actual Mexican, Isaac del Toro, with the unassuming Lancastrian Simon Yates the two-wheeled equivalent of the bandit who skips off with the loot, while two other bandits – in this case Richard Carapaz and Del Toro – stare each other down waiting for the other man to blink.Yates’s second career Grand Tour win, forged on the Colle delle Finestre on Saturday afternoon in a peerless display of courage and cunning, and sealed 24 hours later in the streets of Rome, will go down in cycling’s annals as one of the most improbable heists the sport has witnessed. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Constance Marten's partner Mark Gordon is convicted rapist, Old Bailey baby manslaughter trial is told

Mark Gordon spent 22 years in prison for rape, burglary, and assault, trial told

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2 w. ago Constance Marten’s partner attacked police officers in maternity ward, court told

Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 50, are charged with the manslaughter of their baby daughter Victoria, who died in a tent in early 2023

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2 w. ago Aristocrat Constance Marten’s partner refuses to answer prosecution questions over baby death

Mark Gordon, 50, refused to be cross-examined by the prosecution after giving evidence in his defence

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2 w. ago Aristocrat Constance Marten's partner Mark Gordon ends evidence early in baby manslaughter trial

Mark Gordon told the court ‘I’m finished with my testimony’ as he returned to the Old Bailey witness box

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2 w. ago Constance Marten’s partner refuses to answer prosecution questions

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon are charged with the manslaughter of their baby daughter Victoria, who died in a tent on the South Downs in 2023.

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3 w. ago Constance Marten’s partner suggested they ‘go together on pyre’ after baby death

Mark Gordon said he found their daughter Victoria had gone limp after they pitched a tent on the South Downs amid a national manhunt.

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3 w. ago Constance Marten’s partner claims baby only died because of police manhunt

‘We had become deranged a little bit. We were off our heads,’ Gordon told jurors

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4 w. ago Hallow Road review – Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys race to rescue daughter in cracking thriller

Shot almost entirely inside their car, Pike and Rhys play a splintering couple trying to save their terrified teenagerHow encouraging that whatever state our film industry is considered to be in, it can still find space for a crackingly good script from a supersmart, disciplined first-timer who’s clearly been working on it for a while, planing down the edges and trimming away the fat through successive drafts. Hallow Road is the kind of property that often emerges after a spell on Hollywood’s “Black List” of much admired but as yet unproduced screenplays. It is a gripping, real-time suspense thriller with a twist of the macabre, a film about family guilt and the return of the repressed, written by National Film and Television School graduate William Gillies, a scary-movie enthusiast who here makes his feature script debut. British-Iranian film-maker Babak Anvari directs and Matthew Rhys and Rosamund Pike give forthright, excellent performances as the two leads.Rhys plays Frank, a st...

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