3 d. ago Manchester synagogue attack arrest made as police swoop at airport

A man has been arrested on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism linked to the Manchester synagogue attack last month - this is a breaking story

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4 d. ago VIDEO: AI romance scam conned £20K from scientist duped by fake gay beauty half her age

Romance scams are becoming more and more high tech, with the use of manipulated video. Nikki McLeod bravely shares her story

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4 d. ago Hania Rani: Non Fiction review – atmospheric and absorbing storytelling by Polish composer

Barbican Hall, London From ghost-story minimalism to wartime memory, Rani’s two new works, premiered here, shimmer with imagination, although issues of balance diminished the piano concerto In a crowded post-minimalist world, Hania Rani has carved herself out a respectable niche. The Polish pianist and composer’s erudite yet accessible work often defies genres, appealing to classical, jazz and electronic aficionados alike. This concert comprised two 40-minute premieres and fell pretty firmly into the classical category, yet the lively audience skewed significantly younger than the Brahms and Beethoven crowd. Stylishly performed by the envelope-pushing Manchester Collective, it felt like quite the happening.Shining occupied the first half, a piece devised for the kind of 12-piece band favoured by Steve Reich and Philip Glass. It’s based on a short story by Jon Fosse; a stream of consciousness tale of a man lost in the woods at night. Opening with sinister discords on bass clarinet, b...

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5 d. ago Rescue centre shares heartbreaking story of puppies and older dog found dumped in field

After several puppies were found alongside a one-year old dog seemingly abandoned in a field, an animal rescue centre has shared the sweet footage of the canines as they seek their forever homes

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9 d. ago Mani's incredible Man Utd story from dad who cooked for George Best to Treble sacrifice

Stone Roses and Primal Scream legend Gary 'Mani' Mounfield, who died aged 63, was born to be a Manchester United fan thanks to his dad's extraordinary links to the club

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1 week ago Responsible Child true story: Is Rafael McCullin a real person?

The harrowing film is based on a real-life murder case.

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1 week ago The tragic story behind the mangled Audi in Piccadilly Gardens

'Let's honour Joseph's memory by committing to safer roads for everyone'

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1 week ago The World of Tomorrow review – Tom Hanks returns to the stage for time travel charmer

The Shed, New YorkThe actor indulges his love of the past in a breezily enjoyable play about a man falling for a woman from the 1930s, played by a standout Kelli O’HaraTom Hanks is a star who’s always had one foot squarely in the past. As an actor he’s forever been likened to James Stewart, a reincarnation of the charming, essentially good American everyman, a from-another-era lead who’s increasingly been more comfortable in period fare (in the last decade, he’s appeared in just four present-day films). As a producer, he’s gravitated toward historical shows such as Band of Brothers, John Adams and The Pacific; his directorial debut was 60s-set music comedy That Thing You Do! and his undying obsession, outside of acting, is the typewriter, collecting and writing about its throwback appeal.In his new play, The World of Tomorrow, his fondness for the “good old days” has led to the inevitable, a story about a man with a fondness for the “good old days” who actually gets to experience on...

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1 week ago ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school

Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations Portrait: Tom PilstonIt is the hectoring tone, the “jeering quality”, in Nigel Farage’s voice today that brings it all back for Peter Ettedgui. “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers,” Ettedgui says of his experience of being in a class with Farage at Dulwich college in south London.Ettedgui, 61, is a Bafta- and Emmy-winning director and producer whose credits include Kinky Boots, McQueen and Super/Man: the Christopher Reeve Story. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Responsible Child true story: Where are Jerome and Joshua Ellis now?

The harrowing drama is based on a true story

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2 w. ago Ruben Amorim's first Man United job after international break clear amid Bryan Mbeumo blow

Manchester United forward Bryan Mbeumo has been a success story for the Reds this season following his move from Brentford

Society

2 w. ago Hilary Mantel story imagining Margaret Thatcher’s assassination to be staged in Liverpool

Short story set in 1983, and published a year after the former prime minister’s death, considers ‘what happens when people feel they don’t have a voice’ says director John YoungHilary Mantel’s controversial story imagining the murder of Margaret Thatcher in the summer of 1983 is to be staged next year in Liverpool.The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – August 6th 1983 was published in the Guardian in 2014 and gave the title to Mantel’s collection of short stories that year. In the tale, a woman opens the front door of her flat in a “genteel corner” of Windsor expecting a plumber yet finds a gunman entering. He is intent on using her home’s vantage point to take aim at the then prime minister, who is having an eye operation at a nearby private hospital. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews: Richard Burton: Wild Genius: A deft tribute to Burton's career

Everyone had a Richard Burton story. The man was a human anecdote machine, generating clouds of them wherever he went, eagerly gathered up and treasured by all who met him.

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2 w. ago Graeme Macrae Burnet on the island murders that inspired his new novel

When he found 130 handwritten pages of witness statements relating to a triple murder on the island of Benbecula in the 19th century, Graeme Macrae Burnet realised he had everything he needed to reconstruct a long-forgotten story, writes Susan Mansfield

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2 w. ago BREAKING: Cheetham Hill LIVE: Teen boy 'stabbed in alleyway' as armed police rush to incident

Armed cops have descended on a street in north Manchester following reports of a stabbing - this is a breaking news story

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2 w. ago What to do when your GP dismisses your symptoms as 'just hormones'. It's shockingly common says DR KAYE... here's how to know if it's really fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue or another condition

It's a shocking story that I've heard far too many times: Female patients with debilitating, life-changing symptoms that are dismissed by male doctors as simply 'just hormones'.

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2 w. ago Drastic change needed at mental health units after Sadie McKenzie's horror

"Her story, alongside those of so many other kids, must lead to change. Health bosses can no longer say they weren’t warned."

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2 w. ago The risky strategy of Booker winner Flesh pays off | Justine Jordan

The protagonist’s inner life is hidden from the reader in this highly original novelDavid Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ FleshReflecting on the Booker judging process, chair Roddy Doyle stressed the “singularity” of Flesh, the most unusual novel on the shortlist. In his sixth book, Hungarian-British writer David Szalay takes a classic story arc – one man’s journey through life, from childhood to old age – and presents it in a radically new and challenging way, scooping out the interiority that usually powers the novel form.We meet his protagonist, István, as a bored 15-year-old in a Hungarian backwater. He is seduced by a middle-aged neighbour into a relationship suffused with shame and disgust; a confused act of violence knocks his life off course; he joins the military and is stationed in Kuwait; he moves to London and works as a bouncer before the rising tides of global capital carry him, for a while, into the monied elite. And all the while, we are cut off from his tho...

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3 w. ago Celebrity Traitors final star confesses 'I was kissed on the bus by a murderer'

One of the five Celebrity Traitors finalists told the odd story about how they were kissed on the bus by a man who was on the run from the police for murdering his wife

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3 w. ago UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide

Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El FasherBritain rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite intelligence warnings that the city of El Fasher would fall amid a wave of ethnic cleansing and possible genocide, according to a report seen by the Guardian.Government officials turned down the plans six months into the 18-month siege of El Fasher in favour of the “least ambitious” option of four presented. Continue reading...

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