35 m. ago After the Flood cast and where you've seen them from Happy Valley to Coronation Street

ITV's After the Flood is back for a second series with a star-studded cast including Sophie Rundle and Jill Halfpenny

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50 m. ago After the Flood series two cast welcomes Hollywood star and Coronation Street actor

After the Flood boasts a star-studded cast including Sophie Rundle from Peaky Blinders and Lorraine Ashbourne from Bridgerton - to name a few

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1 hour ago Tottenham board hold Thomas Frank talks as Spurs boss fights to save job

Thomas Frank is in serious jeopardy of losing his job as Tottenham boss following Spurs' home defeat by rivals West Ham on Saturday

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1 hour ago Meet the Love Island All Stars bombshells already making moves on one contestant

The villa has already descended into chaos just days in to the new series

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1 hour ago After the Flood series 2 on ITV: What's it about, full cast and how season 1 ended

Sophie Rundle's Jo Marshall is back on the scene to solver a new mystery in Waterside

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2 h. ago James Bulger killer Jon Venables' disturbing life after release and spiral into paedophilia

As James Bulger's family learn of Jon Venables' upcoming parole hearing, we have taken a look at the killer's life after his initial release, and disturbing spiral into paedophilia.

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3 h. ago UPS driver 'kidnapped at knifepoint' by masked men in central London

UPS driver 'kidnapped at knifepoint' by masked men in central London  Guardian Series

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3 h. ago Driver ploughs into trees at side of M6 after coming off slip road

The motorist was released from their car by firefighters

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3 h. ago Zoe Ball says she would love to present Strictly Come Dancing

Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly left at the end of the last series.

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3 h. ago Inside The Great Pottery Throw Down star Rose Schmits' life since Channel 4 show exit

Rose Schmits worked on The Great Pottery Throw Down as a kiln technician for three years, covering four series from 2021-2024, before leaving the Channel 4 show

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3 h. ago Stop cooking 1 popular food in your air fryer or risk serious fire hazard

More than 50% of Brits now own an air fryer, but experts have warned against cooking one popular snack in the appliance due to serious fire risk in your kitchen

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3 h. ago ‘Radical and joyous’: Beryl Cook show aims to prove she was a serious artist

Major retrospective in Plymouth, her adopted city, presents her as a skilful chronicler of social transformationIn her lifetime Beryl Cook’s colourful, vibrant paintings tended to be dismissed by most critics as mere kitsch or whimsy.A major retrospective of Cook’s work opening in her adopted city of Plymouth at the weekend makes the case that she was a serious, significant artist who skilfully chronicled a tumultuous period of social transformation. Continue reading...

Culture

3 h. ago The most popular show among gen Z? The Rookie – a police procedural

In an era of TikTok and YouTube, teens have never watched old-school television less – yet zoomers love this broadcast drama seriesHannah Leef knows she should be studying for midterms this week. But she has to also make time to watch her all-time favorite episode of The Rookie, an ABC procedural drama about Los Angeles cops. (That would be season two, episode eight.) The 15 year old, who lives in New England, calls the show her “hyperfixation”.Leef first watched the entire series, which is currently in its eighth season, in three weeks. “Which is, like, not healthy,” she admits. She keeps up with new episodes while constantly rewatching the series – which she’s done 10 times now. She’s hooked “about 12 or 13” of her friends on The Rookie, and one of them ploughed through the entire series in a week: “She did not sleep.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its rootsI am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our current techno-social arrangements to interrogate not just what a gadget does, but who it does it for, and who it does it to.What I do not do is predict the future. No one can predict the future, which is a good thing, since if the future were predictable, that would mean we couldn’t change it. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Kindness of strangers: stranded on a tiny Indonesian island, a local took us under her wing

Noticing how out of place we looked, she asked in English if she could help us Read more in the kindness of strangers seriesIn 1996, I travelled around Indonesia with my then-boyfriend. We’d been exploring Surabaya when we heard about an island off the coast called Madura that could be reached via ferry. It didn’t turn up in any of the tourist guides, which appealed to us, being adventurous types. We knew Madura wouldn’t be touristy, but expected there’d be some streets to explore and somewhere to sit down and have a cup of tea.As soon as Madura came into sight, we realised our visit may not have been a great idea. We were expecting to see houses and buildings dot the shore, as well as the hawkers who’d typically crowd around piers in Indonesia with food and wares to sell. There was none of that. It was just a pier next to a tiny village. Continue reading...

Politics

4 h. ago James Bulger killer Jon Venables' eerie life after release and paedophilia nosedive

Jon Venables became the youngest convicted murderer in British modern history alongside Robert Thompson after the brutal killing of James Bulger – and he's been back in prison twice since

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4 h. ago James Bulger killer Jon Venables' eerie life after release and nosedive into paedophilia

Jon Venables became the youngest convicted murderer in British modern history alongside Robert Thompson after the brutal killing of James Bulger – and he's been back in prison twice since

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4 h. ago The Madison release date: When is the Taylor Sheridan series out?

Taylor Sheridan's upcoming family drama now has some exciting first-look images.

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4 h. ago BBC The Night Manager fans are only just realising star's famous mum

The Night Manager has returned for a second series on BBC One, with a number of characters reprising their roles from the first instalment

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4 h. ago Lucille Robinson's Call the Midwife exit explained as Cyril makes huge move

Call the Midwife series 15 sees Cyril Robinson meeting Rosalind's parents after his wife Lucille's departure.

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