38 h. ago ‘A festive tour de force’: Guardian writers on their favorite underrated Christmas movies

From a John Cusack 80s teen comedy to the other Frank Capra Christmas crowd-pleaser, here are some seasonal picks you might not have seenSomething that bugs me about a lot of contemporary Christmas movies is how insistently self-conscious they are about the whole production – the ostentatious decorations, checklist of soundtrack chestnuts, the dialogue about the true meaning of the holidays that sounds canned even when the movie is trying to acknowledge its various stressors. Maybe because the idea of a holiday movie hadn’t yet ossified into routine, I’ve found that the versions of these films that came out in the 1940s tend to approach Christmas from more inventive, less neurotically obsessive angles. One of my favorite discoveries in sifting through 1940s Christmas comedies is It Happened on Fifth Avenue, a 1947 semi-romantic farce with a great starting hook: a cheerful vagrant Aloysius T McKeever (Victor Moore) winters in New York every year, because he knows a way into a particu...

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6 d. ago The nine places set for White Christmas as weather maps predict December 25 snow

Weather charts show nine English counties and much of Scotland are set for snow on Christmas Day as temperatures plunge to -4C, with Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Essex among areas forecast for flurries

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8 d. ago Legendary British bike brand is returning to UK after going bust in the 1960s

A LEGENDARY British motorbike brand is set to return to the UK - decades after it went bust. Phelon & Moore, which was founded in Yorkshire in 1902, has been revived with a new range of bikes aimed at the premium end of the global market. Best known for its long-running Panther models, the brand...

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8 d. ago Margot Robbie in red latex, Kate Bush impersonators and a pint of Emily ale: my crash course in Brontëmania

As Wuthering Heights gets a raunchy Hollywood remake, our writer takes a pilgrimage through Haworth, the village where its author lived – and finds her spirit still electrifying the cobbled streets and windswept moorsIt’s a crisp afternoon in Haworth, West Yorkshire, and I’m drinking a pint of Emily Brontë beer in The Kings Arms. Other Brontës are on tap – Anne is a traditional ale, Charlotte an IPA, Branwell a porter – but the barman says Emily, an amber ale with a “malty biscuit flavour”, is the most popular. It’s the obvious choice today, anyway: in a few hours, Oscar-winning film-maker Emerald Fennell will be at the Brontë women’s writing festival in a church just up the road, discussing her adaptation of Emily’s 19th-century gothic masterpiece Wuthering Heights.The film, to be released just before Valentine’s Day next year, is already scandal-ridden. It all started with Fennell’s casting of Hollywood stars Jacob Elordi and Margot (“Heathcliff, it’s me, it’s Barbie”) Robbie caus...

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1 week ago Mountaineer who left girlfriend to freeze to death during doomed bid to climb Austria's highest mountain 'wrote about how he was left "hurting so much" after the tragedy'

Thomas Plamberger, 36, an experienced climber, is alleged to have left Kerstin Gurtner, 33, on the Grossglockner mountain in January last year as temperatures plunged to minus 20C.

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1 week ago Snow is forecast for Christmas week as mega polar freeze due to hit

Temperatures are set for a dramatic plunge

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1 week ago Is it going to snow in London? Latest forecast as temperature plunges to

Is it going to snow in London? Latest forecast as temperature plunges to -3C  London Evening Standard

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1 week ago Is it going to snow in London? Latest forecast for capital as temperature plunges to

Temperature in London plunges to -3C on Friday morning - with parts of the UK expected to see snow flurries

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1 week ago Met Office forecasts SNOW for Christmas week as temperatures to tumble

The Met Office has published its long-range forecast which covers the period including Christmas Day, and forecasters believe temperatures are going to plunge again

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3 w. ago Idyllic and enchanting village with red cottages and babbling brook

Nestled in North York Moors National Park, this charming village features red-roofed cottages, a babbling brook and a fascinating museum that 'takes you back in time'

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3 w. ago Householders told 'make one change to rooms' now as temperatures set to plunge to

Forecasters are predicting freezing rain and bitterly cold temperatures in Scotland

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3 w. ago Man, 23, who died after getting trapped under recovery vehicle named locally

A 23-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene after becoming trapped under his own vehicle on North Walk Hill in Lynton on Saturday following a collision

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3 w. ago 'Pound shop gangster' who killed pal jailed after years taunting grieving family

Euan Corbett caused the death of his friend Shane Finn in a high-speed crash on the North York Moors in May 2020.

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3 w. ago Five cheapest ways to defrost your windscreen WITHOUT wasting any fuel this winter

TEMPERATURES are plunging across the UK, with some spots down to -7C and Met Office snow and ice warnings in force. And of course, with the bitterly cold weather also comes a problem many motorists face - as they wake up to find their cars iced over before the morning school run or commute, forcing...

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3 w. ago Arctic snap brings coldest November night for 15 years as temperatures plunge below

Thermometers dropped to -12.6C (9.3F) overnight at Tomintoul in northern Scotland which was the UK's lowest temperature since January 11 and the coldest November night since 2010.

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3 w. ago Britons hit by coldest night of the season as temperatures plunge to

Temperatures dropped to -11.7C as amber cold weather health alerts remain in place across parts of northern England

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3 w. ago UK weather: Temperatures plunge to minus 11C but sudden change is coming

Temperatures dropped to 0C in the capital on Thursday night as the cold spell continued

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4 w. ago Travel chaos in blizzard Britain: Snow and ice force roads to close and schools shut with new Met Office weather warnings to hit in hours as temperatures plunge to

Met Office warnings for snow and ice remained in force across the UK today, with more ice alerts for tomorrow morning. A UK Health Security Agency amber cold health alert will be active until Saturday.

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4 w. ago Snow blizzards leave road chaos with 'thundersnow' threatening parts of the UK

Blizzards caused road chaos in parts of the UK after The Met Office issued an amber weather warning for snow and ice on Thursday.

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4 w. ago Snow mapped: Where wintry showers will hit UK today with amber weather warning in place

Wintry showers expected as temperatures plunge in first cold snap of the winter

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