69 h. ago Trespasses review – an intoxicating, rousing and heartbreaking love story

This adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s masterly novel, set in 70s Belfast, sees a Catholic teacher drawn into a dangerous affair with a Protestant barrister. It really hits a nerveWe could be happy together, if only we weren’t here and it wasn’t now: the tragedy of sweethearts caught up in conflict, their love overcome by others’ hate, is an old and powerful story. Trespasses, an adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s novel, written by Ailbhe Keogan, hits that nerve.A small town outside Belfast, 1975: rancour, suspicion and grief shadow every moment in the thwarted life of Cushla (Lola Petticrew), a Catholic primary-school teacher in her mid-20s who is giving up her spare time to work shifts in her brother’s pub. The priests at the school are hollering bigots, telling the children that every Protestant is an evil enemy, despite one of the kids being the son of a Catholic father and Protestant mother. Cushla takes an interest in the boy, who tends to arrive at school without a coat, and his eld...

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4 d. ago My life was dominated by unbelievable levels of pain, then my doctor suggested I took medical cannabis

Retired school teacher Steven Griffiths described how his life 'felt impossible' until he discovered the new way of dealing with his day-to-day pain

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5 d. ago Israel and US accuse Iran of plot to kill Israeli ambassador to Mexico

Israel says Mexico thwarted attempt in aftermath of deadly 2024 Israeli bombing of Iranian embassy in SyriaThe United States and Israel have accused Iran of plotting to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico, in what would be the latest attempt to take the two countries’ conflict to another region.Israel said that Mexican authorities intervened to stop the attempt to kill the ambassador, Einat Kranz-Neiger. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Child bride faces execution in Iran for killing her abusive husband unless she can pay £80,000 blood money

Goli Koukhan has spent seven years on death row in Gorgan, in Northern Iran and has a deadline of December to raise the huge sum of money.

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2 w. ago Teacher who 'had sexual activity with a child' banned for life

Matthew Hindle was also accused of asking the pupil to remove her clothes on a video call while he was teaching at a Greater Manchester school

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2 w. ago Greater Manchester teacher, 36, banned for life after 'unacceptable conduct'

Matthew Hindle was also accused of asking the pupil to remove her clothes on a video call while he was teaching at a Greater Manchester school

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2 w. ago Lily Allen and David Harbour 'selling £6m NYC house' where he made awkward 'cheating' joke on camera

Allen accused Harbour of cheating in several scathing songs from her new tell-all album, West End Girl

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2 w. ago Lily Allen and David 'selling £6m NYC house' where he made awkward 'cheating' joke on camera

Allen accused Harbour of cheating in several scathing songs from her new tell-all album, West End Girl

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2 w. ago Teacher 'sex trafficked pupil for boyfriend and paid her £75 to keep quiet'

High school teacher Elizabeth Jamie Love, 36, faces life in prison over claims she trafficked a female student for sex for her boyfriend Jarid 'Jack' Krause, who has also been charged

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2 w. ago Opinion: Lily Allen's evisceration of David Harbour heartbreak is a high watermark for celebrity confessions

West End Girl is more than a tell-all — it’s a baller power move

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2 w. ago Putin mocks EU's toilet ban on Russia as he warns 'it will cost them dearly'

As the EU continues to slap bans on exports of toilets to Russia, leader Vladimir Putin has hit back on the move, warning the West it will be a bad decision to carry on

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3 w. ago Teacher gets life ban for 'mocking' Muslim pupils and tells one girl 'she would have been killed' in Iran for what she was wearing in class

Alex Lloyd, 51, head of sixth form at The Bishop of Winchester Academy in Bournemouth, Dorset, made the remarks during a lesson on honour killings.

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3 w. ago Sick sex messages school teacher sent to girl, 14 – but then he learned the truth

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: The man contacted the girl on Snapchat, telling her he was 18, before asking to be her boyfriend and offering to buy her anything she wanted

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3 w. ago Spice Girl's desperate plea to Keir Starmer after he made promise to her

Spice Girl Mel B tells Prime Minister Keir Starmer what she really, really wants as she backs grieving mum's campaign to close a deadly legal loophole for domestic violence cases

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4 w. ago The Secret of Me review – documentary tells tragic story of childhood intersex reassignment surgery

Grace Hughes-Hallett’s film focuses on the story of Jim Ambrose, who was raised female after he was born with atypical genitalsAlthough this documentary spreads its net wide to encompass the recent history of intersex identity in the US, mostly it centres around the story of Jim Ambrose, who until he was 20 years old was called Kristi and raised female. Raised in Baton Rouge, Lousiana, Jim was born in 1976 with XY chromosomes and had atypical genitals. So his parents, under the advice of a local doctor, decided to have surgery performed on the infant to create more female-looking organs, and then raised him as a girl without ever telling him the truth. It wasn’t until he read about intersex people in a university feminism course that he realised who he really was. Although Jim would go through further painful surgeries and much mental anguish, eventually he would find his voice as an activist, a place within the increasingly visible intersex community, and a loving partner.The emoti...

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