2 h. 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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2 h. ago Rylan Clark's hunky 'new boyfriend' who is 11 years older than This Morning star

This Morning star Rylan Clark has shared that he's in a new relationship, four years after his difficult divorce, and they've even discussed having kids together

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2 h. ago Dad threatened to burn down Betfred because he kept losing on bets and 'smashed up shop'

Hawest Karimpoori hurled a chair, set fire to a newspaper and began ripping up the carpet during his ill-fated trip to the bookies

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3 h. ago Bake Off’s biggest scandals from Prue’s spoiler blunder to Paul Hollywood ‘affair’ drama

The Great British Bake Off may look sweet on the surface, but behind the cakes lies a history of walkouts, betrayals, and on-set scandals that have stirred up just as much drama as the competition itself

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3 h. ago Trump fortune balloons by billions after family firm’s crypto token starts trading

World Liberty Financial’s digital token $WLFI fell in price on first day, a year after launch by Trump family and partnersThe Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, put its namesake digital tokens up for sale on Monday, adding some $5bn in paper value to Donald Trump’s family fortune. The token, known as $WLFI, fell in value on Monday in their first day of trading.The World Liberty tokens were sold to investors after the Trump family and its business partners last year launched the venture, a decentralized finance platform that has also issued a stablecoin, a cryptocurrency meant to maintain a specific price by tying its value to a specific asset. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Cake shop owner can remain in Britain despite being wanted for murder in his home country of Portugal

Carlos Kassimo Dos Santos, 33, was given in his absence a 14-year prison sentence in Portugal nine years ago, in connection with an alleged gang killing.

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4 h. ago The Standard Shopping Shortlist: What to shop, see and know in September 2025

The hot-off-the-press launches and shiny shopping newness to know this month

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5 h. ago Health chiefs progress with Paisley hospital ward closure despite concerns over replacement service

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) announced plans last year to close ward 36 and replace it with a Hospital at Home service in what it called a “test of change”.

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5 h. ago 'Fabulous' Stockport takeaway shortlisted in chip shop 'World Cup' again

The National Fish & Chip Awards is back for 2026 and the UK's top 40 fish and chip shops have been revealed

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6 h. ago Stressed out parents back to school fears revealed –from forgotten lunch to backpack

As children return to school, the stress of British parents rises as they contemplate forgetting the basics such as school lunch, uniform or even their kid's bag

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6 h. ago Olympic legend sells off his gold medals and flees US for fresh start

Greg Louganis won five Olympic medals for diving between 1976 and 1988

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6 h. ago Pupils at Wishaw primary school learn about the dangers of surfing the internet

Kids at Calderbridge Primary School in Coltness hosted a dedicated internet safety assembly to learn more about what they can do to keep themselves safe online.

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6 h. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

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6 h. ago Calls for AI chatbot 'age verification' as kids can chat to 'Saddam Hussein'

A probe found an avatar from a chat bot site urged a kid to complete a variety of dares including licking the sole of a shoe, drinking a cocktail of tabasco and mustard and eating a snail

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6 h. ago Starmer pushes digital ID cards for ALL after Macron demands action to tackle scourge of illegal working in Britain

Keir Starmer told the Cabinet he would be 'exploring options around digital ID' as part of a wider package of reforms designed to make it harder for illegal migrants to live and work in this country.

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6 h. ago Trafford Centre reveals iconic brand opening store for the first time

It will replace the Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe which closed last month

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6 h. ago 'Child Friendly' Echo Dots kids touted as 'game changer' now 38% off on Amazon

The Echo Dot Kids, a compact Wi-Fi and Bluetooth smart speaker with one year of Amazon Kids+ content, is £39.99 on Amazon, down from £64.99

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6 h. ago Parents accuse school of changing uniform rules just days before kids return

Parents of students who attend Dixons Brooklands Academy in Manchester were left stunned following an alleged uniform change just before the start of the new term

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7 h. ago Victoria Beckham shares snaps of 'perfect summer' as son Brooklyn noticeably absent

Victoria Beckham shared a selection of "perfect summer" snaps with David and the kids – but fans were left concerned as Brooklyn and Nicola were nowhere to be seen

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7 h. ago Unseen Babyshambles at Glasgow Barrowlands snap unveiled to mark 20th anniversary of debut album

Brian Anderson captured an incredible snap of the Babyshambles singer but it nearly didn't end well.

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