9 h. ago Delay another day: why Britain can’t (yet) see America’s buzziest movies and TV shows

From the Emmy-nominated medical drama ‘The Pitt’ to acclaimed A24 indies including ‘Materialists’ and ‘Bring Her Back’, some of the hottest US films and TV shows are taking months – or even years – to arrive on UK shores. And, according to distributors and experts, it’s something we ought to get used to, writes Al Horner

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4 d. ago ‘Now or never’ to save €26m replica of historic French ship, campaigners say

Fresh plea for funds to repair copy of frigate that carried Louis XVI’s promise of aid in American revolutionary warFrench maritime enthusiasts are battling to save a replica of an 18th-century warship that became a symbol of the country’s historic relationship with America.The copy of L’Hermione, a three-mast, 32-gun frigate that carried the Marquis de Lafayette across the Atlantic to announce France’s support for American independence from Great Britain in the revolutionary war, has been in dry dock at Anglet, near Bayonne, since its oak hull was found to be riddled with fungus four years ago. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago These Americans Went Looking for the Britain Found Onscreen. They Found a Different Story.

These Americans Went Looking for the Britain Found Onscreen. They Found a Different Story.  The New York Times

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2 w. ago Revealed: The dark truth about the thousands of Chinese babies snatched from their mothers and sold to childless couples in Britain and America

Abandoned by her parents, Fu Lian Doble was left outside a bank on a wintry Boxing Day in 1999. Or at least that is according to records kept by the Chinese orphanage that took her in.

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3 w. ago Britain will need America's permission to carry out tactical nuclear strikes with new fighter jets

When the UK receives its jets and the bombs at the end of the decade, it will be the first time that Britain has boasted an air-launched tactical nuclear weapon since 1998

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3 w. ago UK 'vulnerable to terrorism' as US attacks on Iran spark fresh wave of fears

Iran's covert network of spies and footsoldiers across the west and in Britain could launch a wave of terror attacks in response to America's air-strikes on Tehran's nuclear programme

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3 w. ago American woman living in the UK reveals common US habit considered 'crass' in Britain

The woman, known on TikTok as Yorkshire Yank , regularly shares her take on the cultural quirks she's noticed since settling in the UK.

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