62 h. ago Parent is arrested in secondary school reception and held by police for eight hours after complaining that teacher had told pupils St George flags could be 'racist symbol'

Broadoak School, in Partington, Greater Manchester, has launched an investigation into comments allegedly made to pupils on Friday morning following complaints by parents.

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4 d. ago Migrant who was jailed after physically abusing five of his girlfriends was allowed to stay in Britain

Hamilton Jorge Da Silva Pinho, 37, was judged to be a 'risk of serious harm' after he threw an electric heater and a steam mop at partners as part of his long-running spree of domestic violence .

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6 d. ago Mr Big is set for his big screen return four years after sex assault claims

Actor Chris Noth, best known as Mr Big from Sex And The City, is returning to the big screen for the first time in more than four years in a different role from the one which made him a global superstar.

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6 d. ago I’m a teacher and this is how many hours of screen time your child should REALLY be allowed a day

I’M a teacher, and here’s exactly how much time your child should be glued to their devices - broken down by age so you can keep their screen time in check. From toddlers to teens, too much screen time can affect everything from sleep to social skills. A recent survey found the average child is spending...

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8 d. ago Outlander star 'couldn't stop sobbing' during filming on season 8

Reach Screen Time spoke exclusively to Outlander’s Sophie Skelton

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9 d. ago Paedophile head teacher report delayed hours before publication

Neil Foden, who was head of Ysgol Friars in Bangor and strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, was jailed in 2024 for 17 years for 19 sexual offences against four girls

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1 week ago Once Upon A Time In The West star Claudia Cardinale dead at 87: Italian screen siren of 1960s passes away

In English, her best-loved roles include the reformed prostitute Jill in the 1968 spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West and an exiled princess in the 1963 film The Pink Panther.

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1 week ago ‘It kept our spirits alive’: Taliban’s internet blackout leaves girls in despair

Many Afghan women and girls can no longer communicate or study online after the internet is cut off in 12 provincesLast week, 17-year-old Marjaneh* sat at her computer, waiting for her nightly online English lessons to begin. At 7pm, the scheduled start time, her laptop screen stayed black. The family’s wifi, like the wireless internet across her neighbourhood, had gone and with it, her only chance to continue her education.“These online classes were my only source of hope,” says Marjaneh, speaking from Afghanistan through a crackling phone connection. “I thought, when they [Taliban] closed schools at least they wouldn’t cut the internet, but now that has been taken away too.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago The most evil TV villain ever? Alien: Earth’s ‘demon sheep eye’ is a work of true genius

Sure, the xenomorph is an all-time great screen baddie – but it’s no match for the eyeball-octopus parasite stuffed in a sheep’s headFrom the moment it was announced, Alien: Earth was a bold punt. Ridley Scott’s movie (and James Cameron’s first sequel) painted the xenomorph as a classic baddie. It was unstoppable. It was seemingly unkillable. It was largely seen in flashes, and motivated only by death. Whenever subsequent movies attempted to broaden the alien’s mythology, its impact only diluted. So the thought of subjecting it to an entire television series – one designed to run for several years, no less – risked destroying it completely.And yet Alien: Earth is a wild success. But this isn’t really to do with the xenomorph at all. Instead, almost every last atom of glory has been stolen by a new alien; one whose smarts, menace and weirdness trump almost anything the franchise has given us so far. Yes, it’s time to give the demon sheep eye its props. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Reduce your kids' screen time this Christmas with best games to play with the whole family

If you're looking to get the whole family together and off their screens this Christmas, we've found a bunch of fun and affordable games that are sure to keep everyone entertained

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1 week ago Japanese city passes order to limit daily screen time to 2 hours a day outside of work

The measure is recommendatory rather than punitive and takes effect on 1 October

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1 week ago Outlander's Sophie Skelton's 'scary' new role as series comes to an end

Reach Screen Time spoke exclusively to Outlander star Sophie Skelton about her intense new film Row

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2 w. ago Americana review – Sydney Sweeney heads cast in eminently watchable crime drama

Cowboys and Indigenous Americans tackle cultural appropriation and the legacy of the old west in a plot that revolves around a stolen Lakota artefactThere is a whiff of grandiosity about this crime drama’s title, hinting at ambitions to say something a little bigger than usual for a movie about cowboys and Indigenous Americans concerning cultural identities and appropriation, the legacy of the old west, and so on. It doesn’t quite lasso the bronco, but the ambitions of writer-director Tony Tost’s yarn are ambitious and interesting, and he has at least assembled a cracking cast to tell it.Audiences will probably be most excited about the presence of star-billed Sydney Sweeney, here playing Penny Jo, a sweet waitress with a stammer, although Sweeney is very much part of an ensemble that distributes screen time democratically. (The film premiered in 2023 at South by Southwest, but is only coming out now, perhaps because Sweeney has now become a legit phenomenon.) At the New Mexico midd...

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2 w. ago Outlander's Mark Lewis Jones recalls joining series and hails co

Reach Screen Time spoke exclusively to Mark Lewis Jones about working on Outlander and the fan reaction to Tom Christie

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2 w. ago Outlander star addresses ‘massive’ fan reaction to Claire Fraser kiss

Reach Screen Time spoke exclusively to Mark Lewis Jones about working on Outlander

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2 w. ago ‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy

The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experiment to be over ...‘I’m going to throw that thing into a river!” my wife says as she comes down the stairs looking frazzled after putting our four-year-old daughter to bed.To be clear, “that thing” is not our daughter, Emma*. It’s Grem, an AI-powered stuffed alien toy that the musician Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, helped develop with toy company Curio. Designed for kids aged three and over and built with OpenAI’s technology, the toy is supposed to “learn” your child’s personality and have fun, educational conversations with them. It’s advertised as a healthier alternative to screen time and is part of a growing market of AI-powered toys. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Couture review – Angelina Jolie is the wrong fit for inert fashion drama

Toronto film festival: the Oscar winner is adrift in Alice Winocour’s uninvolving film about three thinly written women involved in a Paris fashion week showThe otherworldly beauty and consuming, tattoo-strewn look of Angelina Jolie hasn’t always allowed for a great deal of versatility as an actor, a difficult face to seamlessly slot into most stories. The star hasn’t seemed to be all that interested in acting for a while anyway (since 2012, she has physically appeared on screen just seven times) and has preferred to spend time behind the camera and focusing on both her family and her philanthropic pursuits. Her films as a director have been of both genuinely noble intention and minimal cinematic value (her last effort, Without Blood, premiered at last year’s Toronto film festival but still doesn’t have US distribution) and as she enters her 50s, it seems like she’s rediscovered her passion for acting again.The catastrophic box office for her ill-advised entry into the Marvel univer...

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3 w. ago John Malkovich: I DID have a dangerous liaison with Michelle Pfeiffer

And now Malkovich has admitted for the first time that the on-screen passion between them spilled over into real life.

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