34 h. ago ‘Death is complicated and kaleidoscopically beautiful’: Jerskin Fendrix on his emotional new album – and life after Oscar success

The British composer broke into Hollywood as Yorgos Lanthimos’s go-to guy on Poor Things and more. But his heart remains in Shropshire – the backdrop to his ambitious, grief-stricken latest recordThe sun is shining, birds are tweeting and a river gently flows just yards away as Jerskin Fendrix tells me about his love of growing up in Shropshire. “It was so gorgeous and majestic,” he says, sitting in the garden of a friend’s house where he spent a lot of time in his youth. “It was nature, forests and hills and then just normal teenage life. The combination of this numinous, big landscape and getting wasted in a cornfield with your mates listening to Kanye West on a Bluetooth speaker while seeing a massive sunset.”Such vivid scenes fill his latest album, Once Upon a Time in Shropshire. The opening track, Beth’s Farm, captures an idyllic scene where animals roam and rural teens party. “I thought it was a really nice symbol of this naive innocence,” he says. “Trying to get across how bu...

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64 h. ago Coronation Street fans left distracted by age detail ahead of devastating party scenes

Coronation Street fans were left scratching their heads ahead of the cobbles' midsummer party drama

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2 w. ago Emmanuel Gyamfi sold on Aberdeen transfer by Scottish Cup party as Hampden scenes sealed the deal

The Dons have agreed a deal with Schalke 04 for the young left-sided player who has penned a four-year agreement

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2 w. ago IN PICTURES: Oldham Athletic promotion party as fans and players celebrate historic Wembley victory

There were jubilant scenes at the party on the pitch on Boundary Park

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3 w. ago Darling review – Julie Christie’s romantic satire of swinging 60s has a terrific punch

Christie won an Oscar for her role in John Schlesinger’s film as an insouciant model caught between two lovers at the height of London’s fashion sceneSome of it feels a bit dated now, and that brittle, sophisticated chatter in the cocktail party scenes has a fingernails-down-the-blackboard screechiness that can’t have been intended at the time. But John Schlesinger’s winsome adventure from 1965 still has verve and ambition, a romantic satire of swinging London now on rerelease for its 60th anniversary.Julie Christie plays Diana Scott, a model and actor who enjoys an insouciantly upward rake’s progress in smart-set London: an innocent, almost childlike Becky Sharp-type character, for all her dissolute encounters, and abortion and divorce are notably presented without sorrowing dismay and disapproval. The wry, Oscar-winning screenplay from Frederic Raphael imports and anglicises the influence of Godard, Resnais, Varda and the French New Wave; fashion models and advertising are vitally...

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3 w. ago Inside the wild Fleet Week party where lonely sailors look for love... and a ring on the finger counts for nothing

Go behind the scenes of New York's steamiest Fleet Week party - where sailors lose their inhibitions (and sometimes their uniforms), women fly in to meet them, and married Marines beg to remain anonymous.

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3 w. ago When is Liverpool’s Premier League title parade? Route, times and how to watch

Liverpool continue their Premier League title party with the parade on Monday after the jubilant scenes at Anfield on the final day of the season.

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3 w. ago Max Johnston hits Sturm Graz title repeat as Scot takes us inside 'intense' final moments and party scenes

He continues the recent trend of successful Scots across Europe with McTominay, Gilmour and Ferguson all landing silverware in Italy

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3 w. ago Inside Labour plot to oust Keir Starmer as PM is given 12 months to turn things around

This week’s dramatic winter fuel U-turn has not been enough to stop behind-the-scenes talks over how to change leader within the Labour Party, asThe Independent’s political David Maddox found out

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4 w. ago Max Johnston insists he's Sturm Graz lucky charm ahead of Austrian title shoot out for 2

The former Motherwell kid knows avoiding defeat at home to rivals Wolfsberger will see them crowned champions again

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4 w. ago Premier League: 10 things to look out for on the final day of the season

Chelsea braced for City Ground cauldron, Rodri back on the scene and party vibes all round at Anfield• Golden Boot: how the leading scorers standBournemouth’s hopes of European football were vanquished after defeat to Manchester City on Tuesday but the Cherries, 11th on 53 points, could still achieve ninth spot and match their best finish in the Premier League (under Eddie Howe in 2016-17, although that was achieved with only 46 points). A home game against relegated Leicester looks to offer the perfect opportunity but the closing stretch has been tough for Andoni Iraola’s side, with the past 12 league games producing only two victories. Remarkably, a three-game league form table puts Leicester in fourth after home wins over Southampton and Ipswich either side of a 2-2 draw at Nottingham Forest. Perhaps this won’t be the walkover most are expecting, and there could be a wistful feeling in the air at the Vitality on Sunday afternoon. No one can deny it has been a strong season but wh...

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