4 d. ago Diamond Sky review – fairytale heist thriller has its head in the clouds

Mesmerising leads Hassan Najib and Elena Rivers play a pair of young hotel workers who carry out high-end robberies in this oddly unconvincing storyIt’s not fair to critics who want to avoid spoilers but there’s a twist at the end of this romance-focused crime thriller that partly explains why everything that has come before has been so oddly stilted, unconvincing and thinly sketched out. Presumably, writer-director Felix Mackenzie was hoping to create a fairytale-like atmosphere but with a present-day London setting.We’re supposed to feel enchanted by the tale of Lucan (Hassan Najib) and Alice (Elena Rivers), two crazy young kids pulling off heists while working day jobs as a bell boy and chambermaid, respectively, in a small hotel. But most viewers will just wonder why their high jinks are so incredibly unconvincing, why they trust their criminal mastermind handlers to show up with escape cars at exactly the moment needed, and why they live in a flat that looks as if it was hired ...

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7 d. ago A veteran marine was found shot dead after working an Uber shift. Now three teens have been arrested

The Texas teens allegedly shot the Marine veteran, who was driving for Uber, and dragged his body to the side of a Harris County road

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1 week ago Student captured in Ukraine claims he was forced to join the Russian army to avoid drug charges

Sahil Majothi, 22, a computer engineering student from Gujarat, has become the first known Indian citizen to be detained in the ongoing war.

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1 week ago Student joins Russian army to avoid drug charges, mother claims

Sahil Majothi, 22, a computer engineering student from Gujarat, has become the first known Indian citizen to be detained in the ongoing war.

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2 w. ago Boy, 11, 'fell between tram and platform' as it started pull out of Crossacres

An 11-year-old boy remains in hospital with 'serious' injuries after being struck by a tram on Tuesday, as Greater Manchester Police appeal for witnesses

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3 w. ago Terrifying moment little boy is pulled from his mother's arms and dragged along a road by bus

This is the heart-stopping moment a young boy was dragged along a road in Omsk, Russia, after he and his mother attempted to board a bus.

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3 w. ago My mother was shot by the police – and that bullet changed everything

Lee Lawrence was 11 when his mother, Cherry Groce, was paralysed during a botched police raid. It was the end of his childhood and the start of his fight for her life and legacyWhen Lee Lawrence’s son, Brandon, picked him up from hospital after a minor operation recently, Brandon thought he saw a car following them. Lawrence looked round and told his son he didn’t think it was anything to worry about. But then the car – which turned out to be an undercover police vehicle – put its siren on. It overtook them and did a hard stop. “I expected to see guns come out next,” says Lawrence. “I thought: ‘What the hell is going on?’ I got upset. My son was trying to calm me down, because I was thinking: ‘How could this be happening to my son?’”Lawrence was 11 when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot and paralysed in 1985 by an armed police officer during a botched raid on her home. Community fury over Groce’s shooting would spark a two-day uprising in Brixton, south London. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago BBC Morning Live's Gethin Jones was 'absolutely terrified' during huge career moment

Gethin Jones has been speaking about his time on BBC show Strictly Come Dancing

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4 w. ago Baltimore SO/Alsop: Clyne, Abstractions album review – Clyne writes accessible and attractive music

(Naxos)Marin Alsop’s fine recording offers a chronology of Anna Clyne’s orchestral writingOver the last couple of seasons, works by Anna Clyne seem to have been cropping up everywhere, with orchestras and ensembles eager to commission her, as they realise what strikingly attractive and accessible music she writes. Marin Alsop’s fine disc offers a brief chronology of how Clyne has developed as an orchestral composer, from 2008’s Within Her Arms, an elegy to her late mother, to the three movements, Yellow, Red, Orange, of Color Fields of 2020.Within Her Arms, whose string writing seems close to Tippett’s Corelli Fantasia at times, is impressively impassioned, but in each piece here Clyne’s command of her material seems ever more assured and focused. Each of the five short movements of Abstractions of 2016, ranging from the urgently hyperactive to the dreamily impressionistic, was inspired by a work in the Baltimore Museum of Art, while the punchy Restless Oceans, which Clyne composed ...

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last month Terrifying moment boy 'pulls out machete and attempts to attack student' at Royal Leamington Spa College

The unverified footage shows two males in a heated row inside a busy student social area.

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