39 h. ago Pépé le Moko review – mysterious and passionately despairing French noir with a luminous Jean Gabin

Powerful French film that inspired Casablanca stars Gabin as a holed-up gangster in Algiers lured to his doom by infatuationJulien Duvivier’s mysterious and passionately despairing 1937 movie is rereleased, with its luminous lead performance from Jean Gabin as a charismatic Parisian criminal hiding out in the labyrinthine Casbah of Algiers; he is protected there by the dense polyglot population of Indigenous locals that the French colonial authorities consider it imprudent to provoke. He is effectively given sanctuary, but also imprisoned in the unpoliceable, unknowable quarter that, like Polanski’s Chinatown, is a place that baffles and thwarts the imperial powers-that-be.It was a film remade by Hollywood in 1938 as Algiers, which was the debut of Hedy Lamarr and made a huge star of its French lead Charles Boyer, who is much sleeker and more conventionally photogenic than Gabin (but forever stuck with the misquoted line: “Come with me to the Casbah !” always being purred by nightcl...

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3 d. ago Schoolgirl mauled to death by friend's pet dog as heartbroken loved ones pay tribute

Annalyse Blyton was attacked by a mixed-breed dog.

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3 d. ago Schoolgirl dies after being mauled to death by friend's pet dog

A teenage girl who was left fighting for life in hospital after being attacked by a friend’s dog has died from her horrific injuries

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8 d. ago Council helps launch nearly 30 schemes to tackle climate change

Councillors were updated on the success of the local authority's Climate Emergency Fund.

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2 w. ago Edinburgh council to launch probe after man found dead in City Chambers toilet

Sean Stephen lay undiscovered for days in locked toilet at Edinburgh City Chambers.

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2 w. ago Dad of ecstasy death schoolgirl holds tearful summit with Scotland's victims minister

Grieving Stewart Handling has been battling for justice for daughter Grace, 13, since a court found the culpable homicide case against the man who gave her drugs not proven.

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2 w. ago Girl, 13, 'raped and murdered by teen boy' had 'suffered multiple cardiac arrests' before her death, inquest hears

Casey-Louise Horrocks, a schoolgirl from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was found 'unresponsive' in the bedroom of a 16-year-old boy in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, on August 11.

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2 w. ago Girl, 13, feared to have been raped and murdered while in care 'suffered multiple cardiac arrests' before death, inquest hears

Casey-Louise Horrocks, a schoolgirl from Oldham, Greater Manchester, was found 'unresponsive' in the bedroom of a 16-year-old boy in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, on August 11.

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2 w. ago Holland's 'killer asylum seeker on the prowl': Chilling CCTV 'shows suspect on night he brutally stabbed 17

It comes as a wave of national fury has swept the Netherlands after the lifeless body of a teenager, Lisa, was discovered by police in a roadside ditch in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

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2 w. ago Amsterdam 'serial sex predator' fears after girl, 17, was stabbed to death 'by asylum seeker who had also raped woman and assaulted a third'

It comes as a wave of national fury has swept the Netherlands after the lifeless body of a teenager, Lisa, was discovered by police in a roadside ditch in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

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2 w. ago Female MPs receive death and rape threats as they voice fears about a rise in abuse linked to immigration debate

One MP is said to have this weekend reported to the police an online rape threat linked to her support for asylum seekers.

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3 w. ago Council launch 'rapid' safeguarding review into mysterious death of schoolgirl, 13, feared to have been raped and murdered while in their care

Casey-Louse Horrocks, 13, was found unresponsive in a flat, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, last Monday night. A 'rapid' safeguarding review is taking place into her death.

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3 w. ago Does James Bond have to be played by a man? Helen Mirren seems to think so | Zoe Williams

The actor says she is ‘such a feminist’ but that it doesn’t work to have a woman as the next 007. She may find that Amazon, which has taken creative control of the franchise, agrees‘I’m such a feminist,” Helen Mirren told Saga magazine, but there are some jobs a woman can’t do. To be precise: “You can’t have a woman [as James Bond]. It just doesn’t work. James Bond has to be James Bond, otherwise it becomes something else.”Mirren is starring opposite Pierce Brosnan in the film adaptation of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club, in which they both play amateur sleuths in a care home. Happily, that is a unisex job. Brosnan might also describe himself as “such a feminist” – he has never said so explicitly, but in 2019, he said a female Bond would be “exhilarating”. However, he’s now back on team men, saying: “I’m so excited to see the next man come on the stage and to see a whole new exuberance and life for this character.” Exhilaration, excitement, exuberance: all qualities I don’...

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3 w. ago Pictured: Woman, 27, found dead near care home in east London

Zahwa Salah Mukhtar, 27, was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency services rushed to Chadwell Heath Lane, Romford, following reports a woman had been assaulted.

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3 w. ago Three men arrested in murder probe after woman in her 20s is fatally assaulted near care home

The horrifying attack happened early on Saturday morning on Chadwell Heath Lane (pictured on Saturday) in the Chadwell Heath area of east London.

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3 w. ago Woman 'murdered' outside Romford care home with killer still on the run

A woman believed to be aged in her 20s was killed outside a care home in Chadwell Heath, east London, in the early hours of this morning with police launching a murder investigation

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3 w. ago Murder hunt launched after woman in her 20s is found dead near care home

The horrifying attack happened early on Saturday morning on Chadwell Heath Lane (pictured) in the Romford area of east London.

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