28 h. ago Chilling confession from 'innocent' man's father decades after his execution for murder and rape

A slew of mismatched evidence and misled coppers led to the hanging of the wrong man in a mysterious rape and murder case, with a horrifying revelation coming from his father decades later

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52 h. ago Former cop's grovelling voice note after paddleboarding trip ended in tragedy

Former police officer Nerys Bethan Lloyd has been jailed for 10 years and six months over the deaths of four paddleboarders in Wales after the "avoidable tragedy"

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53 h. ago Paddleboarding cop's chilling confession heard in accidental phone recording after four killed

Ex-firearms officer Nerys Lloyd owned and ran Salty Dog Co Ltd and led a paddleboarding trip on the River Cleddau in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire where four people died

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57 h. ago ‘Where is the adult?’: how Leonardo Van Dijl filmed the story of a child tennis star’s abuse

Julie Keeps Quiet casts real-life tennis ace Tessa Van den Broeck as a teenage player facing peril ignored by adults. The director explains how telling the story well required a care the sport itself neglectsLeonardo Van Dijl smiles: “If you told me a year ago that I’d be speaking to the Guardian, I’d have asked: ‘What about?’” Last May, the 34-year-old from Belgium took his debut film Julie Keeps Quiet to Cannes. (Where, he says, everyone was much friendlier after a four-star review in the Guardian.) Ever since, he has been living out of a suitcase, grabbing five or six hours’ sleep. It’s not just media interviews and Q&As keeping him busy: “We are a small movie. I’m the in-house graphic designer. I do the social media ” He stops, looks down at my phone, recording. “But I don’t really want to talk about that. I’m grateful, and it’s not that interesting.”What Van Dijl really does want to talk about is the urgent issue his film raises about safe spaces for children. Julie Keeps Q...

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4 d. ago Teen's chilling last words before tragic death in fatal train crash that killed 57 people

Maria Karystianou was initially told her daughter, Mathi, 19, died instantly in the crash but a phone recording reveals the young woman's final moments after a government "cover-up"

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2 w. ago National Forest serial killer Gary Michael Hilton admits to murdering nurse in chilling death row confession

After 17 years of silence, National Forest serial killer Gary Michael Hilton is using the last of his days to finally unveil the depth of his horrific crimes.

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2 w. ago Minecraft mania: how millions of rowdy kids saved the box office

Video game adaptation broke records over the weekend as reports pour in about chaotic screenings and TikTok trendsMinecraft has jumped from game consoles to movie screens, and theaters across the country are shaking with perhaps the most vocal fan participation this side of an Avengers finale. As the film broke box office records, reports (and phone-shot videos) have been pouring in across the internet of the game-based fantasy-comedy inciting near-riots of applause, cheersand popcorn-chucking as the youthful target audience expresses their gratitude for references to the source material’s characters, memes and attendant lore – particularly the Chicken Jockey, a visual reference to a relatively rare but well-known phenomenon within the game. If you don’t know any more than this, there’s no real need to investigate further; the answer doesn’t matter. Even for someone actively watching A Minecraft Movie, it has absolutely no bearing on the actual story or characters at hand.The reacti...

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2 w. ago Briton held by Taliban with wife describes dire conditions in Kabul jail

Peter Reynolds, 79, detained with his wife, Barbie, since February, says prison is ‘nearest thing to hell I can imagine’A Briton held captive by the Taliban for more than nine weeks has said he is living in dire conditions in a prison in Kabul, describing it as “the nearest thing to hell I can imagine”.In a recording of a phone call from Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Peter Reynolds, 79, also spoke of his fears for the safety of his wife, Barbie, who is being held in the women’s section of the the maximum-security jail. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Russia's 'chessboard serial killer' who murdered 48 will make chilling bombshell confession

Alexander Pichushkin, one of the world's most notorious serial killers, who murdered 48 people, told the Russian prison service he was set to make a horrifying admission

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3 w. ago Did John and Yoko split because of Richard Nixon? The making of revelatory music film One to One

The director of One to One: John & Yoko reveals how he was given access to a trove of intimate and family archive material that changes how we see the star couplePeople are usually at their most interesting when they are in flux – uncertain of the way forward, of what life they ought to build. That was the case with John Lennon and Yoko Ono when they arrived in New York in 1971. They were both fleeing England – the recriminations around the Beatles breakup; the terrible misogyny and racism levelled at Ono – but also running towards the optimism and creative excitement of the New York art scene.This is the period I have tried to recreate in my film One to One: John & Yoko – using a plethora of previously unheard phone recordings, home movies and archive. It’s an unconventional film in many ways, pitching the viewer headfirst into the life, politics and music of the time without the usual music documentary guardrails. At its heart is the One to One concert that the couple...

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4 w. ago Binbag stuffed with sensitive military documents including soldiers' phone numbers and weapons records found on Newcastle street by football fan

The Ministry of Defence has launched an 'urgent' investigation after a cache of documents containing sensitive military information were found scattered on a street in Newcastle.

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