28 h. ago Florida set to execute man convicted of raping and killing a woman 3 decades ago

Florida plans to execute a man convicted of raping and killing a woman three decades ago after kidnapping her from a supermarket parking lot

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4 d. ago A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – Nicholas Hytner’s revels return with bawdy, uninhibited mischief

Bridge theatre, LondonThe immersive setup brings the audience into the midst of the play’s shapeshifting unreality among a comedy-gold cast of magical charactersShenanigans reign in this neck of the woods. Boogying back to the Bridge after six years, Nicholas Hytner’s rollicking production of Shakespeare’s great comedy feasts on bawdy mischief and aerial antics. Radiating charisma, Emmanuel Akwafo’s uninhibited Bottom instructs his ragtag group of am-dram players to rehearse “most obscenely and courageously”. Hytner’s production, with somewhat more rigour and expertise, takes note.Bunny Christie’s luscious set of beds, leaves and trapdoors has us at once rising from the murky depths of the forest and floating among the clouds of sleep. Half the audience mill amid the foggy underland, skilfully shuffled by stage management, while the rest of us sit up among the fairies. The immersive setup complements the play’s shapeshifting unreality; in this world, we become another set of magical...

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5 d. ago Kidnapper sentenced to nearly 400 years after holding woman inside hotel room and raping her for two years

Ian Kroe developed a friendship with the 74-year-old woman in the wake of his mother’s death before kidnapping and raping her

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6 d. ago Kidnapped woman leaves ‘help me’ note at sandwich shop to alert workers and escape

Authorities say the woman indicated on the note that she ‘feared for her life’

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7 d. ago Florida sandwich shop staffer helps free kidnapped domestic violence victim

Jersey Mike’s employee reportedly called county sheriff’s office after finding note in store bathroom that read ‘HELP’A Navarre, Florida, sandwich shop employee reportedly helped authorities save a domestic violence victim who had allegedly been kidnapped by her abusive, pro-wrestler boyfriend after the worker recently found a note in a store bathroom that read “HELP!”At the center of the incident is Eleanor Coffee, who was at her job making sandwiches for a shop belonging to the Jersey Mike’s chain when she noticed a “little piece of crumpled up paper” that had been discarded next to one of the business’s toilet paper dispensers, as she put it to the local news station WEAR-TV. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago New sandwich shop roclaiming to open in Cardiff city centre but there's one big problem

Square + Fair will be opening in Cardiff’s Royal Arcade in June as well as opening a second location in Pontcanna

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2 w. ago Sandwich shop claiming to be your 'new favourite lunch spot' to open in Cardiff but there's one big problem

Square + Fair will be opening in Cardiff’s Royal Arcade in June as well as opening a second location in Pontcanna

Politics

3 w. ago Liverpool target Jeremie Frimpong's farewell message as boss left 'let down' by exit

Jeremie Frimpong has been strongly linked with Liverpool as a replacement for Trent Alexander-Arnold and will hope to leave Bayer Leverkusen on a good note after leaving his former club frustrated

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4 w. ago Moment crypto CEO’s daughter, 34, and child, 2, attacked by knife gang in Paris

The latest alleged attack on wealthy cryptocurrency families in Paris saw a botched kidnapping attempt on a 34-year-old woman and her two-year-old in broad daylight

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4 w. ago Crypto chief daughter's kidnap horror: Woman fights free with help of her husband as three men try to abduct her in Paris

The group tried to force her and her toddler into a white van after hitting the child's father, who tried to intervene.

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4 w. ago Sandwich shop offers £1 seagull insurance as flying psychos keep swiping sarnies

The Cheesy Toast Shack has raised over £3,000 for charity in just six months, all thanks to their £1 "seagull insurance" which gives customers a free replacement if the bird strikes

Economics