6 h. ago How you can own a 'charming’ former East Lothian post office

A former post office in a sought-after location outside of Edinburgh has come up for sale.

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43 h. ago The Hack producer dreams show could have ‘similar effect to Mr Bates’

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office drew renewed attention to the Horizon IT scandal, prompting public outrage.

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6 d. ago PS Plus Extra and Premium September 2025 games announced as Persona 5 Tactica and WWE 2K25 join

The PS Plus Extra and Premium September games have been officially announced by PlayStation in a new blog post. Here's everything coming to the service on Tuesday, September 16

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6 d. ago BBC Breakfast's Jon Kay forced to pause interview as guest, 92, gets teary

BBC Breakfast host Jon Kay was forced to pause an interview with the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office scandal as she became emotional

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6 d. ago BBC Breakfast's Jon Kay rushes to comfort guest, 92, as they get emotional

BBC Breakfast spoke to the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office scandal on Wednesday

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6 d. ago BBC Breakfast's Jon Kay pauses interview to comfort guest, 92, as they become emotional

BBC Breakfast spoke to the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office scandal on Wednesday's show

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9 d. ago Coronation Street’s Katherine Kelly looks back: ‘My friends were very accepting of me being a bit different’

The actor on wearing men’s clothes, her bohemian family and the six-week soap job that turned into six yearsBorn in 1979 in Barnsley, Yorkshire, Katherine Kelly studied at Rada before beginning her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and going on to perform at the National Theatre and Manchester’s Royal Exchange. Her first major television role came in 2006, when she joined Coronation Street as Becky McDonald, a part she played until 2012. Since then she has appeared in The Night Manager, Gentleman Jack, Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Inside No 9. She stars in In Flight, available now on Channel 4.This is a very typical image of me aged four. I spent most of my preschool life with a towel on my head. It was a replacement for the long hair I so desperately wanted. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘The musty whiff of a yard sale’: why is Morrissey attempting to sell his share of the Smiths’ catalogue?

The frontman advertised the sale of one of indie’s most significant catalogues in a shockingly cavalier manner. With estranged bandmates among the other stakeholders, legitimate bidders may be hard to findMorrissey puts his business interests in the Smiths up for sale ‘to any interested party’There is a well-trodden line about assessing the trustworthiness of online bargains: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. It comes to mind when looking at the extremely unusual way in which Morrissey is apparently seeking to offload his business interests in the Smiths. This is not like the forensic and formal processes behind huge catalogue sales in recent years such as Sting, Bob Dylan, Queen, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd or Paul Simon.A post on Morrissey Solo – the outlet for all official Morrissey communiques – says the singer has “no choice but to offer for sale all of his business interests in ‘the Smiths’ to any interested party/investor” and that he wants out. ...

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1 week ago Fife crime: Woman, 46, arrested after shopkeeper 'assaulted' at Glenrothes post office

A woman fled the scene following the alleged incident.

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2 w. ago Late Fame review – Willem Dafoe is a natural poet in a slice

Venice film festivalA postman’s forgotten poetry collection finds new admirers in a tale of how the mystique of the past filters to the presentEd Saxberger is an amiable, unassuming New Yorker on the cusp of old age who works at the post office and wears a pen behind one ear. In his youth, he published an anthology of poetry called Way Past Go, which caused barely a ripple and quickly slipped out of print. Then one day he is accosted outside his apartment by an NYU student, who explains that he stumbled across Way Past Go at a secondhand bookstore and was transported, blown away and could scarcely believe what he’d found. “You’re a man of letters,” the student tells Saxberger, which is undeniably true given that he spends his days sorting them.Hitchcock once said that nine-tenths of a film’s success is in the casting, by which measure Late Fame already qualifies as a hit. Saxberger is portrayed with a loose, warm-leather ease by Willem Dafoe, who makes the man look bemused but never...

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2 w. ago Madness legend Chris Foreman reveals incurable cancer diagnosis

The 69-year-old musician shared the news with fans in a candid post on the band’s official Facebook page

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2 w. ago Royal Mail launches services to help customers post to US after new charges

Goods valued at 800 dollars or less will no longer be exempt from US import duties and taxes from August 29.

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3 w. ago DWP launches independent review into Post Office staff prosecutions

There were around 100 prosecutions against Post Office staff by the DWP between 2001 and 2006

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3 w. ago ITV will continue to make shows such as Mr Bates despite challenges – drama boss

The show prompted public outrage and helped put the Horizon scandal under the spotlight.

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4 w. ago 'Difficult' ITV drama set to show 'completely different side' to David Tennant

The Harry Potter actor is joining forces with Mr Bates vs The Post Office star Toby Jones

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last month ‘Stunning survival story’: Police rescue California man trapped behind waterfall for two days

Ryan Wardwell was rappelling down Seven Teacups falls when ‘extreme hydraulics’ trapped him behind a cascadeA California man who recently became trapped behind a waterfall for two days while climbing was dramatically rescued by police utilizing a helicopter.Ryan Wardwell, 46, of Long Beach, went to waterfalls known as the Seven Teacups on 10 August with plans to rappel down, the sheriff’s office of Tulare country said in a social media post. But the “extreme hydraulics” of the waterfalls pushed Wardwell off his rappelling lines and trapped him behind a cascade of the Kern river, according to the sheriff’s office. Continue reading...

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