2 h. ago Marie and Rosetta at the Rose Theatre, Kingston: magnificent singing, pedestrian script

Beverley Knight and Ntombizodwa Ndlovu shine as the gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharp and her younger sister, but are undermined by the script

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3 h. ago Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk tops poll of UK’s favourite second world war films

Mix of films including Pearl Harbor and Schindler’s List feature on list compiled by War Movie Theatre podcastChristopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has been voted the UK’s favourite second world war film, beating classics such as The Dam Busters and The Bridge on the River Kwai.The 2017 film, starring Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan, portrays the 1940 evacuation of more than 330,000 Allied troops from the French coast.Dunkirk (2017)Saving Private Ryan (1998)The Great Escape (1963)The Dam Busters (1955)Battle of Britain (1969)The Longest Day (1962)A Bridge Too Far (1977)Pearl Harbor (2001)Schindler’s List (1993)The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Continue reading...

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4 h. ago I swapped the Maldives for a popular Spanish resort best known for cheap beer

Maldives loyalist Jessica Harris checks in to the brand new Royal Hideaway Corales Villas - located in a Spanish resort best known for its cheap beer - and is left very impressed.

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4 h. ago Specky Clark by Oona Doherty at Sadler’s Wells: dance as portal to the supernatural

Irish choreographer Oona Doherty returns with this folk horror fable about a grieving boy breaking through into the land of the dead

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4 h. ago Kashmir crisis live: Pakistan and India accuse each other of striking military bases in major escalation

‘Multiple locations’ in India being targeted in retaliatory attacks, says state-run media, after Pakistan says three air bases attacked by Indian missilesFull report: Pakistan says it has hit back after India strikes military basesWho is Asim Munir, the army chief leading Pakistan’s military amid the crisis with India?The general once fell foul of Imran Khan, but since taking the top spot has been quietly amassing power over the government and supreme court, as our profile here says.Yet even now that the country is out of the clutches of martial law, it is still widely understood that the most powerful man in Pakistan is not the head of the government but instead the chief of the army.Since Gen Munir took over as Pakistan’s army chief more than two years ago, he has been accused of quietly consolidating greater power without even having to topple the country’s civilian rulers. As he kept himself largely out of the limelight, he consolidated an iron grip over the army’s ranks and ben...

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6 h. ago An honest review of the Tirtir Cushion Foundation: Is the TikTok viral 'red egg' worth the hype?

Korean cushion foundations have taken the beauty world by storm, with Tirtir's 'red egg' going viral on TikTok. So I put it to the test to see if it really did live up to the hype

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7 h. ago Dianaworld review: For Diana fans to enjoy — but not to trust

Generally when I’m reviewing a book on a subject I’ve written about, I turn to the index as soon as I’m bored to see if I’m quoted, so I can skip to the scintillating bits. No need to, here; I rock up in the very first paragraph of the introduction: “Of the various titles that Diana Spencer collected during her life, it is the unofficial one of ‘the People’s Princess’ that has most come to encapsulate her reputation. The origins of the term are contested. Many have claimed that Tony Blair’s spin doctor, the shrewd, calculating Alastair Campbell, invented it. Others have said it derived from Anthony Holden, a royal biographer and translator of ancient Greek poetry and Italian opera. Julie Burchill, a republican iconoclast perhaps best known for her writing about pop music, asserts that it was in fact she who bestowed the title upon Diana in a laudatory article about the princess published in 1992.”

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7 h. ago Whitehall departments to be told to move more civil servants out of London or get less cash

Exclusive: Rachel Reeves spending review will be aimed at injecting hundreds of millions into growth areas with a shift of government jobs

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8 h. ago From the Montreux Jazz Festival to Primavera: the 12 best music festivals in Europe for 2025

From a former military airfield to a stage suspended over a lake, many of Europe’s best festivals offer spectacular scenery along with the biggest and best lineups. The Independent’s culture team share their favourites

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8 h. ago 'I got an AirTag for the cheapest ever price by stacking a deal most don't know about'

The AirTag is a tiny gadget that can be attached to personal belongings and track via the iOS app, it sends locations and notifications

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9 h. ago The Cardiff bakery that's so good it regularly sells out straight away

Petit Four Patisserie is located on an industrial estate but has already built up a cult following with people flocking to its doors to get their hands on the goods

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9 h. ago ‘I took a river cruise around Southeast Asia and found one part so moving’

Our writer took an unforgettable river journey through Laos where she was welcomed by locals, explored ancient caves, visited a pottery village and tried a local delicacy

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18 h. ago Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti

The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21

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20 h. ago Kirstie Allsopp admits she 'never' socialises with Phil Spencer after he missed her wedding

Kirstie Allsopp and her Location, Location, Location co-star Phil Spencer are marking 25 years of the Channel 4 property show

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20 h. ago Colon cancer was just the beginning: Doctors alarmed as 14 OTHER cancers rise sharply in young people

In the most comprehensive review of its kind, government scientists revealed rates of at least 14 cancers are rising among under 50s.

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21 h. ago Jazz Cafe venue planned for former Victorian theatre in east London

Jazz Cafe venue planned for former Victorian theatre in east London  The Stage

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23 h. ago Doom: The Dark Ages review – id Software gets medieval in a dramatic rewrite of the shooter’s rules

PC, PS5, Xbox; id Software/Bathesda SoftworksThis prequel takes a blunt force trauma approach to problem-solving and demon-killing, with a slower pace but more spectacular weaponryBilled as a prequel to id Software’s 2016 revival of Doom, The Dark Ages is about as different as it could be from its predecessors while remaining recognisably part of the series. Where 2020’s Doom Eternal was about speed and evasion, The Dark Ages emphasises standing your ground. Where Eternal involved picking off enemies one by one, The Dark Ages empowers you to obliterate dozens of demons simultaneously. Where Eternal saw you juggling rapid-fire weapons in a finger-cramping frenzy, The Dark Ages lets you solve most problems by hitting things ferociously hard. Ripping and tearing are out. Blunt force trauma is in.The kernel of The Dark Ages’ combat stretches back to the 1993 original, inspired by the slow-moving projectiles fired by enemies such as imps, cacodemons, and hell knights. The Dark Ages empow...

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23 h. ago Doom: The Dark Ages review – medieval retooling makes demon killing fast, frantic and bone

Gaming's most fast-paced and brutal FPS gets a darker, fantasy-driven prequel that lifts the lid (sort of) on the Doomslayer's demon-slaying origins.

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23 h. ago Cheapest flights available if you’re travelling from Wales this month

There are five locations you can get to for less than £100 from Wales at the time of writing but some of these deals may not be around long!

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23 h. ago How Singalong Starmer got his deal and a bit part in Trump, the Musical | Marina Hyde

Finally, a British prime minister has landed a trade agreement with the US. It’s just a shame it’s not a very good oneA huge day in import-export yesterday, as even Rome’s billion-per-cent tariff on American popes was lifted. The much bigger news, though, concerned the partial easing of recently imposed import taxes on British goods in the form of a starter UK-US trade deal, leaving the biggest little country in the world basking in the glow of an achievement our own prime minister seemed to hint had something of VE Day to it. In Britain, we have an old saying about dejection – “you look like you’ve lost a pound and found a sixpence” – but this was an entirely new spin on that scenario, given we were mostly celebrating being back to paying 10% more tariffs than we were subject to a few weeks ago. Yessss! A sixpence! Good times.Before we get to the specifics of the deal, the theatre. I do find myself increasingly mesmerised by Trump’s Oval Office tableaux, which typically feature him...

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