11 h. ago Estate cars will live on despite EV switch and SUV domination: Skoda previews big

Skoda really is putting the boot in with a new vision for future estate models that proves there's life in the station wagon beyond the combustion engine.

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37 h. ago Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a varied programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie ColemanThis concert was to have been conducted by Simon Rattle – a mark of the esteem in which leading artists hold Chineke! Orchestra, the trailblazing British ensemble made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians. In the event, Charleston-born Jonathon Heyward put his own indelible stamp on a varied yet satisfying program.Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s La Bamboula, a kaleidoscopic dance with roots in the West Indies, played to Chineke!’s strengths. The performed it with vigour and spirit, while Heyward kept its likable blend of late-Victorian tunefulness and proto-Hollywood glitz gossamer-light. You could see why Henry Wood programmed it at the Proms 16 times, making its subsequent 91-year absence inexplicable. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago New Skoda Epiq is a small SUV with the spirit of the Skoda Yeti

All-electric SUV gets funky looks, cool tech, spacious interior, 264-mile range and a price around £26,000

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39 h. ago Volkswagen reveals ID.Cross Concept as part of its new affordable EV push

The new compact SUV picks up the Cross branding as the final piece in the affordable EVs puzzle

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56 h. ago Where you can watch your favourite films under the stars this autumn

Are you ready for spooky season? Well, drive-in cinemas will soon be popping up across South Wales to get you in the autumnal spirit.

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3 d. ago The Paper review – this spinoff of the US Office is dated, mediocre TV

Domhnall Gleeson stars as a clueless local newspaper editor in the mockumentary comedy’s latest creation. His talents can’t outdo the one-note dialogue and lack of hilarityTwo years after the British version concluded with a second brilliantly mortifying Christmas special in 2003, American viewers got their own take on The Office. Set at the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, it was very much in the spirit of the original, at least initially: a deadpan mockumentary centred on a megalomaniac manager (Steve Carrell’s Michael Scott), who like Ricky Gervais’s David Brent before him was “a friend first, and a boss second and probably an entertainer third”. The Office: An American Workplace ran for nine seasons, setting aside some of the original’s cringe comedy aspects in favour of something with a little more heart. By the time it ended in 2013, it was an award-winning sitcom juggernaut in its own right – hugely popular but bearing little resemblance to its Slough-b...

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3 d. ago Lewis Hamilton looks to evoke spirit of Niki Lauda – but Monza bow for Ferrari must ignite a spark

Hamilton comes into Ferrari’s traditional home race off the back of a crash and grid penalty – yet the seven-time F1 world champion insists good times are on the horizon for the Scuderia

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4 d. ago United Airlines adds new flights to 15 cities after Spirit entered bankruptcy. Here are the new routes

‘If Spirit suddenly goes out of business it will be incredibly disruptive, so we're adding these flights to give their customers other options if they want or need them,’ a United Airlines executive said

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4 d. ago German car giant unveils WIRELESS charging for its new electric SUV: Here's how it works...

Buyers of its latest plush electric model can benefit from one of the most convenient new features to be added to the EV ownership experience yet.

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4 d. ago Psychic Sally Morgan confirms Ryan Thomas' late father is using a pigeon as a messenger from the spirit world

The actor's dad Dougie James died in 2020 aged 72, and earlier this week, Ryan stunned followers when he claimed that his dad had been reincarnated as a bird.

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4 d. ago David Byrne: Who Is the Sky? review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Matador)His last album was criticised for being too upbeat during Trump 1.0 but became a phenomenal live show, and the Talking Heads frontman remains sunny – almost to a faultIt is seven years since David Byrne released his last solo album, American Utopia. So much has happened in the intervening period that it’s easy to forget that, initially, the record received a mixed response. There was praise for its expansive and experimental approach: songs built on rhythms by Brian Eno were handed over to a wide selection of producers to tinker with, then Byrne compiled the finished product. Part of a larger multimedia project called Reasons to Be Cheerful, it attempted to engender a spirit of positivity, but there were complaints that this amounted to a blithe abdication of responsibility amid the first Trump presidency. Respectful long-service-medal reviews coexisted with angry fulminating over the complete absence of female contributors.A mixed response was business as usual as far as B...

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5 d. ago Tributes paid to teenager 'full of laughter and spirit' found dead after reservoir search

Daniel Holden was tragically found after a two-day search at Lower Rivington Reservoir

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5 d. ago Corrie star bawls while cradling pigeon he's convinced is his dad reincarnated

Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas broke down after a pigeon visited his home, which the actor believes is the reincarnated spirit of his late father Dougie James

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5 d. ago Edmunds SUV comparison: New Honda Passport vs Toyota 4Runner

The redesigned 2026 Honda Passport brings boxier styling, new features and more interior space to the automaker’s midsize SUV

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5 d. ago Springholm basks in sunshine as village comes together for Springholm Show

The event, which followed the popular gala and race night earlier in the summer, proved to be a day of colour, music, laughter, and community spirit.

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6 d. ago Lanarkshire locals urged to start their own business with help of Business Gateway

Business Gateway, Scotland’s national business support service, has launched Scottish Start-Up Month, a nationwide campaign to celebrate Scotland’s entrepreneurial spirit.

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6 d. ago Dead Man’s Wire review – Gus Van Sant calls the shots with surreal true

Venice film festivalAl Pacino, Colman Domingo and Myha’la excel in this gripping take on the events of 1977 when an Indianapolis businessman held his mortgage broker hostage With terrific chutzpah, black-comic flair and cool, cruel unsentimentality, screenwriter Austin Kolodney and director Gus Van Sant have made a true-crime suspense thriller set in the 1970s, tapping into the spirit of both Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Apart from anything else, it is a reminder that in that post-Kennedy, post-Watergate age, plenty of lawless and febrile things happened that would now be considered phenomena purely attributable to social media.In 1977, an Indianapolis businessman named Tony Kiritsis, with many acquaintances in the police department, kidnapped a mortgage broker named Richard Hall, and tied Hall’s neck with a “dead man’s wire” to his shotgun, which would therefore go off if police sharpshooters tried to kill him. Kiritsis even paraded his victim like this on TV while...

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6 d. ago First sponsors event at Wishaw Golf Club is an incredible day of community spirit

The inaugural tournament drew together 23 teams for a Texas Scramble

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7 d. ago Seven EVs from Citroen, Peugeot, Skoda, Toyota and Vauxhall to get Electric Car Grants

The inclusion of these models takes eligibility for the Electric Car Grant up to 35 cars in total.

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7 d. ago Sobbing woman interrupts grieving dad of boy she killed with SUV as he sat with pals

Jack Davey, 11, died instantly when Shaymaa Oun Ghazi Zuhaira, 41, rammed her Toyota SUV into the kerb at his Primary School, smashing through the boundary and crushing him and three classmates

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