40 h. ago Fears £2bn mega town with 25,000 homes will bring roads to a standstill and inundate schools and GP surgeries with massive influx of residents

Fears have been raised a new 'mega-town' for 25,000 homes dubbed an 'abomination' and 'tomorrow ghetto' could bring Bristol's roads to a grinding halt.

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40 h. ago I Swear actor Robert Aramayo: ‘Like anybody who hasn’t had education, I thought it was all about swearing’

Formerly seen as a young Ned Stark in Game of Thrones and as Elrond in The Rings of Power, he is creating a buzz with his role as Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson. It taught him a lot, he says – but it’s a huge responsibilityKirk Jones was feeling nervous. The director was two weeks away from shooting his new film, a biopic of the pioneering Scottish Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson, and he still hadn’t seen his lead actor perform any of the script. Jones had been impressed by Robert Aramayo in the supernatural Netflix series Behind Her Eyes, and liked the actor when they met over Zoom.He then invited him to Galashiels, to meet Davidson in his home town, where he was convinced Aramayo was the right choice for the role. “I was confident enough not to feel the need to meet 50 other actors and audition them,” he says. But “I didn’t ask him to read”, he admits. “Looking back, I think that was insane.” Continue reading...

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40 h. ago Actor Robert Aramayo: ‘Like anybody who hasn’t had the education, I thought Tourette’s was all about swearing’

Formerly seen as a young Ned Stark in Game of Thrones and as Elrond in The Rings of Power, Aramayo is creating a buzz with his role as the condition’s campaigner John Davidson in I Swear. It taught him a lot, he says – but it’s a huge responsibilityKirk Jones was feeling nervous. The director was two weeks away from shooting his new film, a biopic of the pioneering Scottish Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson, and he still hadn’t seen his lead actor perform any of the script. Jones had been impressed by Robert Aramayo in the supernatural Netflix series Behind Her Eyes, and liked the actor when they met over Zoom.He then invited him to Galashiels, to meet Davidson in his home town, where he was convinced Aramayo was the right choice for the role. “I was confident enough not to feel the need to meet 50 other actors and audition them,” he says. But “I didn’t ask him to read”, he admits. “Looking back, I think that was insane.” Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Fears £30bn mega town with 25,000 homes will bring roads to a standstill and inundate schools and GP surgeries with massive influx of residents

Fears have been raised a new 'mega-town' for 25,000 homes dubbed an 'abomination' and 'tomorrow ghetto' could bring Bristol's roads to a grinding halt.

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48 h. ago 'It'll be a nightmare': Fears mega town with 25,000 homes will bring roads to a standstill and inundate schools and GP surgeries with massive influx of residents

Fears have been raised a new 'mega-town' for 25,000 homes dubbed an 'abomination' and 'tomorrow ghetto' could bring Bristol's roads to a grinding halt.

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61 h. ago Inside the new UK mega town with 25,000 homes set to be built

A new mega town is set to be built in the UK with 25,000 homes and thousands of jobs.  

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3 d. ago Mega new town is coming to UK with 25,000 homes being built under new plans

A HUGE new town, with up to 25,000 homes is set to be built in in the UK, as part of a government scheme. The ambitious plans are set to ease Britain's housing crisis, and the project is expected to create 30,000 jobs. The Brabazon development, in South Gloucestershire is set to become a "thriving new...

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4 d. ago Devil in the Dust review – Guy Pearce leads old west outcasts on a supernatural mission with a message

A little girl with a fatal touch becomes an intriguing metaphor for the white man’s burden in an impressive film from Ned CrowleyIf not quite in the top tier of 21st-century westerns, this supernatural oater from director Ned Crowley has a distinctive silhouette. First off, the film is beautifully shot, from the opening scene, which tracks back from a hallucinatory landscape until we see the source of a strange sound: a riffled deck of cards in a desperado’s hands. And its central conceit – a little girl (Emily Katherine Ford) whose touch is fatal – flowers into an intriguing metaphor for the consequences of the white man’s burden.Except here the girl is, initially, a black woman’s burden. Formerly enslaved Sarah (DeWanda Wise) runs a homestead on the edge of an Arizona town in a plague-stricken time. The already on-edge locals shun her and her daughter, even though she keeps her child’s apparently deadly hands gloved. Increasingly ground down, Sarah enlists mentally shattered docto...

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4 d. ago A Massive New 15,000 Home Town Has Been Approved For Thamesmead in Southeast London by the Government

A Massive New 15,000 Home Town Has Been Approved For Thamesmead in Southeast London by the Government  Time Out Worldwide

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4 d. ago Manchester's 'new town' with 15,000 homes to be built soon after major announcement

Manchester council leader Bev Craig has set out what Labour's 'new towns' announcement means for the city

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6 d. ago London village is set to become massive new town with 10,000 homes before election

Sir Keir Starmer has given Housing Secretary Steve Reed ‘marching orders’ to ‘get Britain building again’

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6 d. ago Three new UK towns update as Keir Starmer reveals plan for unleash housing boom

Each new town will have the potential for around 10,000 homes, with a minimum of 40% for affordable housing, along with GP surgeries, schools, libraries and local transport links

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7 d. ago New homes could be coming to Ayrshire town with consultation event being held

A consultation event is being held by Keepmoat Homes in Mauchline ahead of a potential planning application for a development at Station Road.

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7 d. ago New neighbourhood of 418 homes in Bolton town centre due to be approved

The long-awaited Church Wharf development, which includes a six-storey, 130-room hotel, is set to get the go ahead

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8 d. ago Hundreds of flats get green light in latest phase of 20,000 home 'new town' on Thames

More than 650 new homes approved in the latest phase of the Barking Riverside development

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9 d. ago Sea Cadets making waves in Ayrshire town after historic return

Ayr Sea Cadets & Royal Marines Cadets are back in their home town after taking full ownership of their new base at Foresters Hall.

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9 d. ago EFL release new statement amid Blackburn vs Ipswich controversy as timeline set

After Blackburn Rovers' home clash against Ipswich Town had to be abandoned, the English Football League has issued a statement on the Championship clash

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1 week ago Cobbled town with two very famous residents has ‘best spot in the world for autumn'

Tetbury is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the second-largest town in the Cotswolds. It is also home to King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Westonbirt National Arboretum

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1 week ago Inside Alan Titchmarsh's life in pretty country town where homes average £378,000

Alan Titchmarsh has been a familiar face on British television for decades, but the gardening expert prefers to keep his personal life out of the spotlight

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1 week ago ‘It’s a lot darker than Sleaford Mods’: Jason Williamson on acting, rejection and a radical portrait of street life

The frontman is realising his stage dreams by starring in Edgecity which draws on playwright gobscure’s experience of sleeping rough. The pair talk about an urgent, explosive showIn the late 1980s, fresh from being kicked out of school, Sleaford Mods frontman Jason Williamson dreamed of becoming an actor. He was looking for a way to escape the narrow-minded confines of his home town, Grantham – and treading the boards seemed like the best possible way.“Essentially I just wanted to be famous,” he says now, “but then I started to fall in love with the process of it all.” Continue reading...

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