1 hour ago ‘He asked me what I’d done sexually with a woman’: how Joy Gharoro

The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new waveJoy Gharoro-Akpojotor had a little wobble when she stepped on to the stage after the screening of her debut feature, Dreamers, at the London film festival. The Nigerian-British director’s film is a love story set in an immigration detention centre. It had already premiered in Berlin earlier this year. But showing her semi-autobiographical film to a home crowd in London felt exposing. “I suddenly had this feeling: Oh my God, everyone can see me. Everyone knows everything about me.” She laughs.Gharoro-Akpojotor has built a reputation as a rising star producer. Her company Joi Productions makes films telling black, female and gay stories. (“All of the above, sometimes individually.”) Her credits include Rapman’s Blue Story and Aml Ameen’s romcom Boxing Day, and she is curre...

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2 h. ago New hydrogen refuelling centre capable of serving 38 vehicles a day set to be built

It will be able to fuel a maximum of 38 vehicles per day once up and running

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4 h. ago World's first pickled onion cocktail bar to open after Dua Lipa inspired trend

Garner's Pickles at Bar Swift Shoreditch serves a menu built entirely around pickled onions, with drinks including the 'Pickleback Buck' and 'Pickleada'

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5 h. ago Estée Lauder (NYSE: EL) and Jo Malone debut AI fragrance advisor built on Google Cloud

Estée Lauder (NYSE: EL) and Jo Malone debut AI fragrance advisor built on Google Cloud  Stock Titan

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5 h. ago Popstar Dua Lipa inspires world's first Pickled onion cocktail bar in London

A new pop-up bar in London is serving a cocktail menu entirely built around pickled onions

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5 h. ago Mafia drama 'better than Sopranos' based on ‘superb’ book returns for new series

The beloved mafia series has built up a firm following and is back again with a spin-off

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7 h. ago New delay revealed for first of Turkish ferries being built for CalMac's Islay route

Further risk from bad weather when vessel sails for Scotland

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20 h. ago Everything you need to know about Greater Manchester getting its first Your Party councillor

A councillor in Salford has joined a new political party.

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22 h. ago I'm a Celeb's Angry Ginge’s mum opens up on sacrifices and son’s jungle rise

Single mum Michelle says she’s “pinching herself” as son Angry Ginge could be on the way to becoming King of the Jungle favourite, recalling his journey from Salford to I’m A Celeb

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23 h. ago I'm A Celebrity's Angry Ginge told he'd 'be millionaire one day' as mum shares truth of life in Manchester

Ginge, whose real name is Morgan Burtwhistle, was brought up by his single mum, Michelle, in Salford

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24 h. ago From heat pumps to heritage crafts, apprentices are shaping Scotland

Edinburgh’s future is being built right now in college workshops, kitchens, studios and training yards. The students learning there are the people who will wire our homes, service our buses, run our labs and keep the whole city moving.

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27 h. ago ‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’: the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire State Building

They wrestled steel beams, hung off giant hooks and tossed red hot rivets – all while ‘strolling on the thin edge of nothingness’. Now the 3,000 unsung heroes who raised the famous skyscraper are finally being celebratedPoised on a steel cable a quarter of a mile above Manhattan, a weather-beaten man in work dungarees reaches up to tighten a bolt. Below, though you hardly dare to look down, lies the Hudson River, the sprawling cityscape of New York and the US itself, rolling out on to the far horizon. If you fell from this rarefied spot, it would take about 11 seconds to hit the ground.Captured by photographer Lewis Hine, The Sky Boy, as the image became known, encapsulated the daring and vigour of the men who built the Empire State Building, then the world’s tallest structure at 102 storeys and 1,250ft (381m) high. Like astronauts, they were going to places no man had gone before, testing the limits of human endurance, giving physical form to ideals of American puissance, “a land w...

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28 h. ago Hidden gem Greater Manchester restaurant 'incredibly proud' as it's added to Michelin Guide

Tucked away beneath a Salford high-rise, this top Greek restaurant serves up topped flatbreads, mezze, stews and traditional wines

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33 h. ago True story behind house in middle of M62 and 'stubborn farmer' who lived there

Stott Hall Farm in Yorkshire is one of the most famous homes in England, an 18th-century farmhouse built splat bang in the middle of a busy motorway. The stuff of urban legend, an unearthed documentary reveals the truth behind the iconic "Little House on the Prairie".

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35 h. ago 'I just played to my strengths for 50 years': John Cooper Clarke on Bernard Manning, the Arctic Monkeys and shopping in Aldi

As he gears up for the release of a new collection of poetry and a huge new UK tour - including a homecoming show at Manchester Apollo - the Bard of Salford spoke to Damon Wilkinson

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47 h. ago The quaint Greater Manchester town with one big problem that's 'about to get worse'

Hundreds of new homes will be built in a town already on the brink of capacity

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58 h. ago Salford council slammed after admitting thousands of pounds of expenses were not recorded

The authority is facing questions over its spending of public money - but has refused to release the full figures.

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66 h. ago Working the land but rarely owning it: life for New Zealand’s young farmers

A country built on agriculture is seeing the sector change as the number of farms shrinks and it becomes harder for young people to buy landOn a farm south of Auckland, Cam Clayton breeds sheep and cattle – working alongside the dogs he’s trained since they were puppies. There, he looks out on knobbly hills and tree-filled gullies in Waikato, close to where he grew up.“I have the best office, with the best views,” says Clayton. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago AI country hit 'Walk My Walk' built on Blanco Brown's sound sparks questions of attribution, ethics

An AI-generated country song, “Walk My Walk,” recently topped Billboard's country digital song sales chart

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3 d. ago Ashes legend left bankrupt after 'bad decisions' died skint with nothing in will to family

An ex-England bowler, who was part of a successful Ashes series, had built up financial issues before his death

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