39 h. ago Mother who got trapped headfirst in sea defence boulders drowned in front of daughter amid 'possible delay' to firefighters who were trying to rescue her, inquest told

Saffron Cole-Nottage, 32, screamed for help as her 11-year-old daughter and two bystanders desperately tried to pull her free from the rocks beneath the Esplanade in Lowestoft, Suffolk.

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8 d. ago Terrifying footage shows hero cop rescuing fire captain’s daughter from blazing car

This is the moment that a fire captain’s daughter was rescued from a burning car by a police officer in Arizona in the early hours of Monday (25 May).

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2 w. ago Matthew Rhys: ‘If I’d got the part as Bond, I’d have played him Welsh until they told me to stop’

Ahead of his new film ‘Hallow Road’, the actor talks to Annabel Nugent about sneaking around with his partner Keri Russell on ‘The Americans’, growing older in Hollywood, and why the world is still prejudiced against a Welsh accent

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3 w. ago Rosamund Pike speeds off with the sickeningly effective thriller Hallow Road

The ‘Gone Girl’ star and Matthew Rhys play a couple attempting to rescue their daughter along a dark, twisty countryside road

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3 w. ago Hallow Road review – Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys race to rescue daughter in cracking thriller

Shot almost entirely inside their car, Pike and Rhys play a splintering couple trying to save their terrified teenagerHow encouraging that whatever state our film industry is considered to be in, it can still find space for a crackingly good script from a supersmart, disciplined first-timer who’s clearly been working on it for a while, planing down the edges and trimming away the fat through successive drafts. Hallow Road is the kind of property that often emerges after a spell on Hollywood’s “Black List” of much admired but as yet unproduced screenplays. It is a gripping, real-time suspense thriller with a twist of the macabre, a film about family guilt and the return of the repressed, written by National Film and Television School graduate William Gillies, a scary-movie enthusiast who here makes his feature script debut. British-Iranian film-maker Babak Anvari directs and Matthew Rhys and Rosamund Pike give forthright, excellent performances as the two leads.Rhys plays Frank, a st...

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3 w. ago Film reviews: Make it to Munich | Good One | Final Destination: Bloodlines | Hallow Road

Make it to Munich pays tribute to an unassuming teenager with an indomitable spirit, writes Alistair Harkness

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