21 h. ago My cultural awakening: Jackie Chan films inspired me to become a kung fu instructor

Since I saw a VHS of Rush Hour at a sleepover as a kid, the martial art has given me increased body positivity and helped me find a community When I was 12, following my parents’ divorce, I moved with my mum and sister from London to Australia, leaving behind my dad and a large extended family. It was destabilising and demoralising. Throughout high school I was bullied for my accent, clothes and looks. While Australian girls seemed like flowers thriving under the brutal sun, I felt like a sweaty, acne-prone gremlin who craved the dark and cold of home.Shortly after moving, I befriended a girl who had lost her mum. Suffering in our own ways, we found release in watching the 1998 action comedy Rush Hour, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as detectives trying to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Chinese diplomat. My friend had the film on VHS, and we put it on one night when I was sleeping over. This became a regular activity, and we would fling ourse...

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46 h. ago Dundee fire LIVE: Updates as residents warned to keep doors and windows closed

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed three fire crews are at the scene of a blaze at a Riverside Recycling Centre on Wright Avenue in Dundee, on the north bank of the Firth of Tay

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1 week ago Fire service issue warning to anyone living near wildfire burning for weeks

Residents in affected areas are advised to keep doors and windows closed as a precaution against smoke exposure

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1 week ago Dunfermline fire: Residents urged to keep windows and doors closed as crews attend landfill site blaze

Police are urging the public to avoid the area.

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2 w. ago Lenzie fire: Large fire breaks out in Scottish street as residents evacuated from homes and roads closed

Residents told to keep their windows and doors shut

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2 w. ago Lenzie fire: Large fire destroys old Scottish school as residents evacuated from homes and roads closed

Residents told to keep their windows and doors shut

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2 w. ago Was my memory wiped or was the Star Wars sequel trilogy just that forgettable?

The Force Awakens and its follow-ups had so few memorable characters, it’s a wonder Disney – and Oscar Isaac – are still talking about potential spin-offsThere might just be a strange irony to this week’s news that Oscar Isaac, AKA the tousled X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, is up for a return to Star Wars if the script is right. Because before the actor’s comments in a new interview with Variety, it was quite possible to forget that the sequel trilogy ever existed. Was The Force Awakens really a film, or just two hours of Disney rummaging through George Lucas’s recycling bin? Did The Last Jedi split the fanbase so violently that Brexit looked like a parking dispute? And could The Rise of Skywalker really have stunk that badly?The problem with the post-Lucas films is that they never quite decided what they wanted to be. The Force Awakens tried nostalgia cosplay. The Last Jedi tried to set fire to nostalgia cosplay. The Rise of Skywalker then tried to urgently stitch nostalgia back togethe...

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2 w. ago UK street residents fume as thieves keep nicking 'rude' sign erected on their road

Hardened criminals have again made off with a rude road sign erected at the end of Knob Lane in Derbyshire, leaving locals fed up at rising costs of replacing the stolen name plates

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2 w. ago Residents warned to close doors and windows after fire at Grade I listed Liverpool building

Residents have been warned to keep doors and windows closed

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2 w. ago Tragedy on the Welsh mountains as man, 36, plunges to his death from knife

The walker, 36, fell off Crib Goch, a notoriously dangerous Mount Snowdon precipice on the approach to Yr Wyddfa, on Saturday morning.

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3 w. ago 'Half naked' and noisy Snowdon walkers keeping residents awake at all hours

There's been a growing trend of people doing sunrise and sunset along the Llanberis path, one of the busiest routes on the mountain

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3 w. ago CNN’s resident MAGA defender keeps getting his past Jan. 6 condemnation thrown back in his face

‘He did not protect or defend the Constitution and he violated his oath of office,’ Tara Setmayer told Scott Jennings. ‘You know, who said that? You did after January 6th.’ Justin Baragona details how the CNN commentator is having his old comments used against him

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