7 h. ago Police dealt with more than 3,000 protests in three months over the summer

Chairman of the National Police Chiefs’ Council Gavin Stephens said public figures should avoid sowing division amid a climate of increased tension.

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7 h. ago Top cop's message to public figures 'with power and influence' amid 'climate of tension'

National Police Chief Council chairman Gavin Stephens says police officers are facing increased divisions as they attempt to deal with protests, including at migrant hotels

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15 h. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

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5 d. ago Jay Kelly review – even a George Clooney sizzle reel can’t save this dire Noah Baumbach effort

Venice film festivalThe affable star plays an affable star assessing his life and career at a Tuscan film festival in a wildly sentimental and self-indulgent piece of cine-narcissismEverybody loves George Clooney, and rightly so. His performances in films such as Michael Clayton, Out of Sight and Ocean’s Eleven have been a joy, and as an elegant public figure he has more or less single-handedly underwritten the continuing currency of Hollywood classiness. But in this dire, sentimental and self-indulgent film, he has the look of a man who has found strychnine in his Nespresso pod and can’t remember which of the cupboards in his luxury hotel suite contains the antidote.It is directed by Noah Baumbach, whose 2022 film White Noise, based on the Don DeLillo novel, was a superb competition entry at Venice. (Baumbach was reportedly disconcerted by a tepid response; I thought it was brilliant.) But this one is a grisly, sucrose, sub-Fellini swoon on the subject of a super-handsome Hollywood...

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7 d. ago Indian court says Modi’s university degree can be kept confidential

Delhi High Court rules academic records of even public figures constitute personal information that is exempt from disclosure under India’s transparency law

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1 week ago Emmerdale star's message after Strictly Come Dancing announcement as he replaces star

Lewis Cope has shared a message as he was drafted in to replace another star after they quit before the BBC show's launch

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1 week ago Just over half Dumfries and Galloway stroke patients received best chance care in 2024

Figures from Public Health Scotland show that just 56.1 per cent of stroke patients received an inpatient bundle consisting of aspirin, access to a stroke unit, brain imaging and swallow screening.

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1 week ago Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough review – a candid portrait of a literary one

Paul Sng’s documentary finds the Trainspotting author as funny, sharp and unrepentant as ever – from boyhood in Leith to globetrotting fame and a hallucinogenic trip in CanadaNo one would reject the title of national treasure more fiercely, but more good-humouredly, than Irvine Welsh. The brilliant Scottish writer and creator of Trainspotting takes centre-stage in Paul Sng’s documentary with just the same unassumingly athletic ease as in all of his other public appearances. For someone who has done as much drink and drugs and as many late nights as Welsh, he looks very good.This film is a great way to round off the Edinburgh film festival; Welsh is, after all, Edinburgh’s greatest living public figure. His 60s childhood in Leith and Muirhouse was followed by a spell in London, then twentysomething years back in Edinburgh during the 80s, studying at Heriot-Watt and working for the council, during which time he began to write. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Scottish Government failing Lanarkshire stroke survivors according to leading charity

Figures released by Public Heath Scotland this week as part of their Scottish Stroke Improvement Programme revealed the country is falling unacceptably short of its own target of 80% of stroke patients receiving an inpatient bundle which aims to ensure the best chance of survival and recovery.

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2 w. ago James Comey prompts MAGA outrage after he posts ‘creepy video’ where he claims to be a Swiftie

Ex-FBI director hails Taylor Swift as ‘truly inspirational public figure’ in bizarre anti-bullying sermon

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2 w. ago Scottish Government failing West Lothian stroke survivors according to leading charity

Figures released by Public Heath Scotland this week as part of their Scottish Stroke Improvement Programme revealed the country is falling unacceptably short of its own target of 80% of stroke patients receiving an inpatient bundle which aims to ensure the best chance of survival and recovery.

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2 w. ago TV cop 'resigns' from police force after 'sexist' and 'racist' messages found on phone

PC Andrew Doran who appeared on Motorway Cops has been forced to resign from Cheshire Police after inappropriate messages were found on his personal phone

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2 w. ago The hospitals with the LONGEST waiting lists revealed: As 7.37million people wait for routine treatment, the Government is slammed for 'misleading' public on NHS figures

More than 7.37million treatments-relating to 6.23million patients- are now in the queue for ops like hip replacements, official data revealed today.

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2 w. ago GERS figures: Scotland's public spending deficit rises by more than £5 billion

There was an estimated deficit of 11.7 per cent of GDP in 2024/25, compared to 5.1 per cent for the UK

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2 w. ago GERS figures: Scotland's public spending deficit rises to £26.5 billion

There was an estimated deficit of 11.7 per cent of GDP in 2024/25, compared to 5.1 per cent for the UK

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2 w. ago Dolly Parton reveals how to cope with loss in heartbreaking message to Kelly Clarkson

Country music icon, Dolly Parton, has reached out to American Idol star, Kelly Clarkson, after the death of the singer's ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, 48

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2 w. ago Joanna Lumley and Tulisa confirmed for Cheltenham Literature Festival 2025

Thought to be the world's oldest literature festival, the event, which was first held in 1949, features talks and discussions from a variety of authors, journalists and public figures.

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3 w. ago Paedo Scots taxi driver caught in undercover cop sting after sick messages to decoy

Aaron Burnicle, 36, was caught in a cross-border police sting after messaging a fake 13-year-old girl online begging for nude pictures.

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3 w. ago Tulip Siddiq feels like she is 'in a Kafkaesque nightmare' as ex

Ms Siddiq, 42, is accused of having obtained plots from her aunt Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted as the south Asian country's prime minister last year, through 'abuse of power and influence'.

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3 w. ago The cancer patient who inspired French movement to block reintroduction of pesticide

Fleur Breteau tells of how case was merely a symptom of a wider problem contaminating food and water systemsOn the day French MPs gave themselves a round of applause for approving legislation to reintroduce a banned pesticide last month, a figure rose from the public gallery to shout: “You are supporters of cancer and we will make it known.”Fleur Breteau made it known. Her outburst and appearance – she lost her hair during chemotherapy for breast cancer – boosted a petition against the “Duplomb law” to well over 2m signatures. Continue reading...

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