98 m. ago What is a casement window? A complete guide to this classic design

Casement windows are the standard for most homes

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2 h. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – whodunnit threequel is murderously good fun

Toronto film festival: after Glass Onion underwhelmed, Rian Johnson’s self-aware, star-packed Benoit Blanc series makes a barnstorming return to formIf Glass Onion wasn’t quite the deserving follow-up to Knives Out that many of us had hoped it would be (it was more focused on the bigger rather than better), it was at the very least a deserved victory lap. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s 2019 whodunnit brought us back to the starry, slippery fun of the 70s and 80s, when films like this would be a dime a dozen and it was a surprise hit, making almost eight times its budget at the global box office. While Kenneth Branagh had seen commercial success already with his Poirot revival two years prior, his retreads felt too musty, and the actor-director too miscast, for the genre to truly feel like it was entering an exciting new period.Johnson’s threequel, Wake Up Dead Man, is the second as part of his Netflix deal (one that cost an estimated $450m) and arrives as the whodunnit genre has fou...

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2 h. ago How to get £15 Christmas tickets for England National Ballet Sleeping Beauty in Manchester

The renowned group will be performing The Sleeping Beauty classic fairy tale

Economics

2 h. ago Horror movie hailed as 'top notch in every way' finally arrives on Netflix

The American supernatural horror movie follows a troubled security guard named Mike Schmidt (Josh Hutcherson) who begins working at an abandoned pizzeria.

Events

3 h. ago The ‘bizarre’ referral of the US housing finance agency chief to oust Lisa Cook

Former officials and experts say Bill Pulte’s request for inquiry into Fed governor’s alleged fraud is ‘unusual’The head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency embraced a highly unusual process to accuse Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, of committing mortgage fraud, former officials and experts have said. One former high-ranking official called the director’s involvement in a criminal referral “bizarre”.William Pulte, a businessman and major GOP donor whom Donald Trump appointed to head the powerful housing agency earlier this year, has accused Cook of committing mortgage fraud by misrepresenting her homes as a primary residence, potentially securing more favorable mortgage rates. The justice department formally opened a criminal investigation into whether Cook committed fraud and has issued subpoenas related to the transaction. Cook’s lawyers have called the discrepancies a “clerical error” and she has denied any wrongdoing. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Back to school motors: As kids return from summer holidays, these are some of the best cars used to ferry them to the gates dating back to the 1950s

The Daily Mail and classic car insurer Hagerty have picked our combined ten favourite school run cars from five decades between the 1950s and 1990s.

Transport

9 h. ago The school dinners and puddings we either loved or hated as kids

Whether you had school meals or were a packed lunch kid, this should bring memories flooding back

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10 h. ago Black man shot at while waiting to go to work says South Carolina needs hate crime law

A Black man in South Carolina is pushing for the state to pass its own hate crime law after police say he was shot at by a white man in a racist attack

Events

10 h. ago Festival director: Roma culture needs to gain same status as Irish music in Scotland

The Ando Glaso Roma Fest wants to highlight Roma culture and music

Culture

10 h. ago I was a chess prodigy trapped in a religious cult. It left me with years of fear and self

Growing up dirt poor in Arizona’s Church of Immortal Consciousness, I showed an early talent for the game. Soon the cult’s leader began grooming me to become a grandmaster – even if it meant separating me from my mother When I first discovered chess, after watching the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer on HBO, I was a nine-year-old kid living in a tiny village in the mountains of Arizona. Because of its title, many people think the film is about Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who bested the Soviet Union in 1972, defeating Boris Spassky to become the first US-born world chess champion in history. Really, it’s about how the American chess world was desperate to find the next Bobby Fischer after the first one disappeared. The story follows Josh Waitzkin, a kid from Greenwich Village in New York, who sits down at a chess board with a bunch of homeless dudes in the park one day and miraculously discovers that he’s a child prodigy – at least that is the Hollywood version of the...

Politics

14 h. ago Is this the final proof Margaret Thatcher was AUTISTIC? She hated small talk, didn't understand jokes and was utterly tactless... now a new book offers a clear diagnosis

Margaret Thatcher's infamous social awkwardness and lack of humour proved a challenge for the men who would turn her from an icon

Politics

17 h. ago Family of Brit couple killed in Lisbon Tram crash say they are 'heartbroken'

Theatre director Kayleigh Smith and her partner, Will Nelson, are among the 16 people who died when the Gloria funicular derailed in the centre of Lisbon on Wednesday night

Events

18 h. ago Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, surprise winner of Venice Golden Lion

The Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing account of a Palestinian child’s death in Gaza, won the runner-up Silver LionUS indie director Jim Jarmusch unexpectedly won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice film festival on Saturday with Father Mother Sister Brother, a three-part meditation on the uneasy tie between parents and their adult children.Although his gentle comedy received largely positive reviews, it had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping the Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war. In the end, the film directed by Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania took the runner-up Silver Lion. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Strictly star La Voix ready to take on internet trolls and reckons she'll win them over

The first drag queen to appear on Strictly believes she'll become a target for online hate - but will ignore the haters and provide fun and entertainment

Politics

22 h. ago Lucy Connolly wants to work with Reform to overhaul prison system after being jailed for race hate tweet

Lucy Connolly was a ‘special guest’ at the party’s annual conference in Birmingham on Saturday

Events

23 h. ago Lucy Connolly says she wants to work with Reform on prisons overhaul after being jailed for race hate tweet

Lucy Connolly was a “special guest” at the party’s annual conference in Birmingham on Saturday

Events

23 h. ago The Lost Bus review – Paul Greengrass wildfire movie is as stressful as you’d expect

Toronto film festival: the director retells the worst wildfire in California’s history with expected technical prowess but he’s hampered by a soapy scriptEven before the wildfire has started to rage in fact-based docudrama The Lost Bus, Paul Greengrass has us on edge. We’re inside a schoolbus for the morning drop-off and we’re reminded of the dangers already faced on the day-to-day, young children without seatbelts being driven around the precarious rolling roads of the California hills, the director cranking up every little sound of a vehicle we’re told is in delayed need of a maintenance check. The world is dangerous enough.That nervy tension soon gets considerably ramped up and then rarely lets up for the next two-plus hours, an exhausting, assaultive experience aiming to both take us back to the horrors of 2018’s historically destructive Camp fire and to show us what Californians have been facing ever since and will bleakly continue to in the future. It’s ruthlessly efficient in...

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23 h. ago Inside Hibs transfer deadline day efforts as Malky Mackay explains Swiss focus and Dykes deal that never was

The Easter Road sporting director has been reviewing the Hibees' window as a whole and late business

Economics

23 h. ago 'I'm going to f*** him up!' Furious Labour MPs tell DAN HODGES they 'hate' Starmer after Rayner chaos

The problem for Starmer - as he looks out across the smouldering wreckage of Angela Rayner's resignation - is many MPs 'hate' the PM and look set to 'knife' him.

Events

25 h. ago Brit couple killed in Lisbon funicular crash 'talented' and 'dedicated' pair

Theatre director Kayleigh Smith and her partner Will Nelson, a lecturer at Manchester ’s Arden School of Theatre, were among the three British people killed in the Lisbon funicular crash

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