5 h. ago ‘I contemplated the unthinkable’: Karla Sofía Gascón speaks out about ‘overwhelmingly painful’ Oscars season

The Emilia Pérez actor, whose offensive resurfaced tweets sank the film’s hopes for awards glory, says public hatred left her ‘on the edge’Karla Sofía Gascón, the first out trans actor to be nominated for an Oscar, whose hopes of winning were dashed after offensive social media posts were surfaced a month before the ceremony, has spoken out about the “unexpected, devastating storm” of awards season.The Spanish actor says that the final stretch of the race, was the “most exposed” period of her life. She faced widespread criticism for her tweets, and despite repeated apologies, was cold-shouldered by the cast and crew of Emilia Pérez, while studio Netflix dropped her from campaigns and cut off funds allowing her to travel to ceremonies. A contract with her Spanish publisher was cancelled, and senior politicians in her home country spoke of their disappointment in her. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Lothian bus and vehicle apprenticeship scheme now open to interested applicants

The award-winning public transport operator’s apprentice programme lasts four years

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4 d. ago Maximum points: what is the most influential video game ever?

As Bafta launches a survey asking the public to nominate the most influential game of all time, we asked people from across games and culture for their picksAhead of the 21st Bafta games awards this April, the institution is running a public survey asking people to nominate the most influential video game of all time. As the survey points out, this is an open-ended question: early, groundbreaking titles such as Space Invaders and Pong regularly crop up as answers because they helped write the rules of the form, but on a personal level, the right game at the right time can be exceptionally influential, too. For players, it’s often the games that made us feel differently about what games could do that feel the most influential. For a game designer, a film director, a writer or a musician, one particular game might inspire a whole creative era.Inspired by Bafta’s survey, we asked people from across games and culture for their most influential game – and not one name cropped up twice. C...

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5 d. ago The three pubs that have been awarded best in Wales for a wonderful reason

Three Welsh pubs have been recognised for very worthwhile reasons

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8 d. ago Alex Scott and Jess Glynne make rare red carpet appearance at Brit Awards

Alex Scott and Jess Glynne walked the red carpet together at the Brit Awards 2025, marking one of their first public appearances since confirming their relationship

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8 d. ago Stormzy 'ignores' expert advice at BRITs as Jack Whitehall mocks McDonald's backlash

Rapper Stormzy has made his first public appearance at The BRIT Awards 2025, a month after he was hit by a fierce backlash from his fans over his collaboration with McDonald's

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1 week ago Timothée Chalamet deserves an Oscar – for his Oscar campaign

A Complete Unknown’s best actor nominee might lose out on the prize to The Brutalist favorite Adrien Brody but his journey to the stage has been award-worthyOn Sunday, Timothée Chalamet could become, at 29 years, two months and three days, the youngest best actor winner in Oscar history. But whether or not his performance as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown beats out presumed frontrunner Adrien Brody – the current youngest best actor, at 29 years, 11 months and nine days in 2003 – Chalamet has already won arguably the most important prize of modern movie stardom: the hearts and minds of the internet.If we’re in the business of giving out awards for deserving, boundary-pushing work, then Chalamet’s best actor campaign – unofficial and often unspoken efforts to sway awards voters and build public sentiment – deserves its own Oscar. For the past several months, ostensibly in support of A Complete Unknown but seemingly just as much for laughs, Chalamet has embarked on a rare press run of...

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1 week ago This Morning fans say 'no wonder people switch off' after 'worst ever' episode

This Morning fans have all shared the same complaint after tuning in for the latest installment

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1 week ago Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie review – a tale of four women

The Nigerian-American author returns with an astute and moving exploration of female experience‘Novels had always felt to me truer than what was real,” declares a character in Dream Count, the highly anticipated new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is a statement echoed in the accompanying author’s note, which contends that the “point of art is to look at our world and be moved by it, and then to engage in a series of attempts at clearly seeing that world, interpreting it, questioning it”. Since the publication of her extraordinarily assured debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, in 2003, Adichie’s fiction has performed this task of seeing, interpreting and questioning to huge acclaim, garnering her major awards as well as a public profile far beyond most writers, whose work hasn’t been sampled by Beyoncé.In keeping with her superstar status, Dream Count is billed as “a publishing event 10 years in the making” and is perhaps the surest bet so far for this year’s Women’s prize. However, ...

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1 week ago Wonderful Cardiff café to close and there's 'tears in our eyes'

Big Moose Coffee Co wanted to 'leave the world in a better place than we found it'

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2 w. ago ‘I’m sitting on the side that’s launching bombs’: author Omar El Akkad on the hypocrisy of the west

The award-winning writer’s new book contends with how the war on Gaza shattered his fragile faith in the so-called free worldThe ugly truth of American violence has never been plainer | Omar El AkkadOmar El Akkad grew up believing in an idealized America. Born in Egypt, raised in Qatar, and transplanted as a teenager to Canada, the writer saw the west for its freedoms – a place where, unlike at home, he could check out a William S Burroughs book from the library and where the naked baby on the cover of the Nirvana album he had on repeat hadn’t been blacked out by a censor.He’d go on to build a career as a reporter with the Globe and Mail, covering the US occupation of Afghanistan, the prison at Guantánamo Bay and the Arab uprisings of 2010-2011, before moving to the US and publishing two award-winning novels – American War, an account of a future US ravaged by war and climate disaster, and What Strange Paradise, a story of a Syrian boy who survives a shipwreck off Greece. Continue r...

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2 w. ago Katie Price flaunts weight loss in crop top as she poses with boyfriend JJ Slater

Katie Price has wowed fans with her incredible weight loss transformation as the former glamour model and her boyfriend JJ Slater made a public appearance at the Glossies Awards in Dublin

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2 w. ago Labour to order schools, hospitals and prisons to buy more British food in bid to appease farmers who are furious at Rachel Reeves' tax raid

Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, will use a speech this week to outline a shake-up in the awarding of public contracts in order to prioritise domestic produce.

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2 w. ago 'No wonder' verdict as NHS in Wales faces recruitment crisis

Audit Wales warned that progress to tackle the problems are "hampered by the absence of a national workforce plan, gaps in data and uncertainty over the future shape of healthcare services"

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2 w. ago Matt Sherratt urges Wales not to ‘die wondering’ against Ireland

Wales’ chances have been largely written off against the Six Nations favourites.

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2 w. ago 'We're completely humbled': Hidden gem Greater Manchester pub crowned 'pub of the year' again

The drinking spot has picked up a number of local and national awards in recent years including The Greater Manchester CAMRA Pub of the Year.

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2 w. ago Vote open to public to crown UK’s most heroic dog in Crufts award

Nominees of the annual Hero Dog Award include a record-breaking blood donor dog and another who walked 3,000 miles alongside his grieving owner.

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