59 h. ago Ross Kemp breaks down as he discovers family secret on BBC's Who Do You Think You Are

EastEnders legend Ross Kemp was overcome with emotion as he discovered a tragic story about his family in his new BBC show Who Do You Think You Are?

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3 d. ago BBC documentary reveals tragic story of Sri Lankan student living in London.

BBC documentary reveals tragic story of Sri Lankan student living in London.  Newswire

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6 d. ago ‘He lived his whole life in that fire’: the tragic story of ‘lost’ singer Jackson C Frank

A school fire, a shooting and mental health issues plagued a man whose legacy is remembered in a new documentaryThirty years ago, when the music writer Jim Abbott tried to track down the “lost” folk singer Jackson C Frank, he had no idea what he’d find. All he had to guide him was a tip from an old associate of Frank’s to go to a housing facility in Queens, New York, where he was told he was living. When he finally arrived there, the man he saw bore no relation to the Frank he was expecting. “All I had to go on was his album cover from 1965 when he was much younger and looked pretty dashing,” Abbott said. “This was the 90s when he was much heavier and was hobbling around looking really grouchy.”The place Frank was living in “was populated by drug addicts and hookers and, for some reason, had this gigantic sand pit in the middle of the lobby that you had to walk around. It’s very hard to weird me out,” Abbott said. “This did.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago I tried the UK's best chocolate ice cream and one thing was undeniable about it

Beddgelert is known for several things - its tragic folk story, beautiful views and its award winning ice cream parlour Glaslyn

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2 w. ago ‘Hitler’s hatred of the scientist had intensified. There was a price on his head’: the tragic story of Robert Einstein, Albert’s cousin

After the famous physicist fled Germany in 1933, his cousin Robert moved his family to Italy, where they thought they had found safety. Then, the day before liberation, Nazis smashed down their front door Early on the morning of 3 August 1944, a unit of heavily armed German soldiers arrived at the Villa Il Focardo outside Florence.They didn’t knock. They didn’t ring the bell. They simply smashed through the front door, marched in and started shouting for the villa’s owner, Robert Einstein, cousin of the world-famous scientist Albert Einstein. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Tape Two) review – love, grief and self

PC, PS5, XBox; Don’t NodThe concluding half of this two-parter may be lacking in interactive challenges, but is profound, sensitively structured and emotionally resonantOne thing you realise as you get older is that memories are plastic and that the stories you tell about your life change with every recollection, depending on who you are at the time. This is one of the themes – and indeed the mechanics – of Lost Records, a narrative adventure about four teenage girls who develop an intense friendship in rural Michigan during the summer of 1995. In the first instalment, they form a band, discover an old shack in the woods to use as a clubhouse, and encounter a supernatural force emanating from a deep hole they discover nearby. But as autumn draws in and the girls plan a climactic rock gig, tragic secrets are uncovered.Cleverly, the story is told mostly in flashback, as the characters meet again, decades later, in their long-abandoned home town – they’re older, wiser and with new pers...

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3 w. ago Netflix viewers rave over 'one of the best war films EVER' with perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score as 'haunting and visceral' scenes 'blow them away'

Set at the end of the Second World War , the drama is available to stream on Netflix and delves into the story of the tragic accidental bombing of a school.

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3 w. ago Tragic story of one of Titanic's 'unluckiest' passengers who was only on doomed ship because of twist of fate

The item belonged to Ernest Tomlin and is part of a remarkable unseen archive of documents relating to him and the Titanic disaster his family have kept hold of.

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3 w. ago Next Top Model's Lucy Markovic's family made heartbreaking plea hours before tragic death

Next Top Model star Lucy Markovic has died at the age of 27. Hours before her tragic death was announced, her family took to her Instagram story to share a heartbreaking request

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