3 h. ago The Salt Path author is dropped by health charity over claims she misled readers

The PSPA said it was ‘shocked and disappointed to learn of the allegations made about Raynor and Moth Winn’

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4 h. ago How The Salt Path dissolved into allegations of lies, theft and betrayal

The bestselling memoir was hailed as a moving true story of love resilience and the healing power of nature. But now its author Raynor Winn faces extraordinary allegations – raising doubts over whether the heartwarming journey was too good to be true after all, writes Maira Butt

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6 h. ago The Salt Path is a box office hit. Will its takings – and its Oscar hopes – now fall off a cliff?

The film adaptation of Winn’s book, starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, quickly became the third most successful UK movie of the year. What happens now?On paper it has everything. A redemption-arc narrative about overcoming homelessness, adversity and illness. Two late-middle age lead characters that would appeal to the key silver-pound cinema-going demographic, as well as providing plum roles for top-notch British actors. A backdrop of glorious south coast scenery, as experienced through that most modish of contemporary activities: hiking.No wonder film-makers were champing at the bit to make a movie out of The Salt Path, the memoir by Raynor Winn published in 2018 – and so one duly emerged, starring Gillian Anderson as Winn and Jason Isaacs as her husband Moth, who was diagnosed with the incurable condition corticobasal degeneration (CBD). It was released in the UK in May, and was a verifiable hit, taking home £7.6m from the UK box office and becoming the third most succes...

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8 h. ago Camp vampires! Frisky throuples! How Stephanie Rothman became queen of the B

The director’s mastery of trashy, low-budget exploitation films like It’s a Bikini World and Group Marriage turned her into a cult icon. Now, aged 88, she’s finding out they’re more relevant than everStephanie Rothman first came across the term “exploitation” in a review of one of her own films. It was 1970, and her second solo-directed feature, The Student Nurses, a small-budget indie about trainees at an inner-city hospital, set against Los Angeles’s bubbling counterculture, was doing well at the US box office. (It eventually made more than $1m from a $150,000 budget.) Rothman was pleased but the review took her aback. It called it an “exploitation film” with “surprising depth”.Fifty-five years on and Rothman is a cult legend who fully embraces the label. “I started out with a very snobbish attitude,” she says on a video call from California. “I was shocked that’s what I was making! But as time went on, I began to appreciate what I was able to do, which was to take elements of pop...

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10 h. ago Whatever the truth of The Salt Path, I know why people wanted to believe it | Gaby Hinsliff

As questions are asked about the bestselling memoir, is the demand for hope-over-hardship stories outstripping reality?Was the story always, in hindsight, just a little too good to be true? A middle-aged couple, brutally down on their luck after bankruptcy and a terminal diagnosis, escape their troubles on an epic walk round the South West Coast Path, finding comfort along the way in the kindness of strangers. Billed as an “honest and life-affirming” story of prevailing against the odds, The Salt Path became first a bestseller and then a blockbuster film, starring a windswept Gillian Anderson. Though it was never really my thing, I knew plenty of people for whom The Salt Path genuinely resonated, with its romantic central theme of being (as the film’s director, Marianne Elliott, put it) “reformed by the elements” of a blustery English seascape.If it seemed a bit unlikely that a dying man could be rejuvenated by a strenuous trek involving wild camping in all weathers – well, getting ...

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11 h. ago The Salt Path author Raynor Winn dropped by charity amid lies and embezzlement claims

‘Too many questions remain unanswered,’ said the charity in a statement

Culture

12 h. ago Emma Raducanu's actual take home from Wimbledon prize money after huge tax hit

Emma Raducanu was beaten in straight sets by Aryna Sabalenka in the third round of Wimbledon on Monday and she is set to lose a huge chunk of the £152,000 prize money she won

Economics

13 h. ago The Salt Path author is dropped by healthcare charity after claims about husband's illness and allegation she 'stole about £64,000 from a former employer'

PSPA said it was 'shocked and disappointed' about the allegations that have come to light against Raynor and Moth Winn saying it had 'taken everyone by surprise'.

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14 h. ago Salt Path author is dropped by healthcare charity after claims about husband's illness and allegation she 'stole about £64,000 from a former employer'

PSPA said it was 'shocked and disappointed' about the allegations that have come to light against Raynor and Moth Winn saying it had 'taken everyone by surprise'.

Culture

17 h. ago A classic horror movie that spawned one of the worst reboots of all time is on TV tonight

The reboot was panned by critics and underperformed at the global box office

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18 h. ago Charlize Theron’s The Old Guard 2 comments reveal a depressing truth about female

The ‘Mad Max’ star has spoken about the reluctance among film studios to make action films with female leads. When you dig into the state of the modern box office, it’s clear she’s onto something, writes Louis Chilton

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29 h. ago I'm certain Celtic will sign a box office No.9 and here's why Giuseppe Ambrosino doesn't quite fit that bill

Our man Keith Jackson is certain the Hoops are after a senior No.9 this summer and doubts Ambrosino is that striker

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30 h. ago The Salt Path author accused of embezzling money before losing house after failing to repay loan

Representatives for the couple at the centre of the story have called the accusations ‘misleading’

Economics

31 h. ago Perthshire arts organisation shuts its shop and box office amid financial woes

Strathearn Arts' artistic director spoke of deep disappointment that there were no alternative options available.

Economics

35 h. ago Lando Norris reveals ‘exhausting’ toll of British GP victory and title battle with Piastri

British driver says intensity of races is proving draining‘They’re pretty strenuous, exhausting weekends’Lando Norris described his victory at the British Grand Prix and his intense battle with Oscar Piastri for the world championship as exhausting, but is hopeful he has established some momentum for the next round in Belgium.“It’s two wins, but they’ve not come easy by any means,” he said, after following up his win in Austria at Silverstone. “We’ve had good fights, but they’re pretty strenuous, exhausting weekends because you’re fighting for hundredths and thousandths and you’re fighting for perfection every session and I’m against some pretty good drivers. So, it takes a lot out of you, especially when you have a race like Sunday.” Continue reading...

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37 h. ago The Salt Path author 'stole £64,000 before losing house after failing to pay off debt'

An investigation by the Observer has raised doubts about the best-selling memoir, which has has spawned a movie adaptation

Economics

50 h. ago The Traitors production crew forced to take drastic measures after being hit with 'nightmare' insect outbreak on set

The Traitors film crew have had to take drastic measures after being hit with a 'nightmare' insect outbreak on set.

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51 h. ago Couple whose memoir inspired hit film The Salt Path angrily deny claims their story of hope in the face of adversity may not be as 'unflinchingly honest' as initially billed

Her steely account of homelessness and hope in the face of adversity captivated more than two million readers worldwide and was adapted into a film with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.

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54 h. ago ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ bites off $318 million at the global box office

“Jurassic World Rebirth” has topped the holiday box office charts in the U.S. and abroad

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55 h. ago The real Salt Path revealed: How inspirational hit book and film 'hid tawdry real tale of a £64,000 embezzlement, police arrest and land owned in France'

An investigation has reportedly discovered that The Salt Path's protagonists, Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, are in fact Sally and Tim Walker and lost their home following theft accusation.

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