18 h. ago The Two Roberts by Damian Barr review – lost story of a gay art duo

The lives of Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, who found love and fame and lost it all, are vividly reimaginedWhat if the protagonist of a novel was not a single person but a couple? Damian Barr takes on this challenge, and he’s found a historic couple who make the ideal source material. Working-class Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun were rarely apart after they met in 1933. They lived and worked together, became famous together and then declined into desperate squalor together – even poorer than when they began.Barr knows what it’s like to conquer Glasgow from a small, working-class town on its outskirts; he knows what it’s like to find yourself feted for your portraits of the place you’ve left irrevocably behind. His memoir, Maggie and Me, was a hard-hitting yet rambunctious tale of growing up gay near Motherwell under Thatcher, uneasily aware that the woman who pushed his parents deeper into poverty also taught him that the ruthless ex...

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6 d. ago Kidnapped woman pushed off cliff to her death by 'brutal' mother and daughter

Mary Elizabeth Isbell's body was found at the bottom of a cliff in a picturesque national park two years after mother-daughter duo Loretta Kay Carr and Jessie Kelly allegedly murdered her

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1 week ago Woman had hair extensions pulled out by thug MMA fighter who pushed her down stairs

Joseph Cummins assaulted Rebekah Campbell at her home

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1 week ago Moment 'drunk' driver is dragged away by police after crashing into car and clashing with shocked bystanders

This is the shocking moment a driver slammed into a parked car before chaos erupted on a residential street in Hainault, England.

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2 w. ago Terrifying moment woman is dragged away and mauled by safari park tiger after getting out of her car, thinking they had left the enclosure

This is the terrifying moment a woman was dragged away and mauled by a tiger at a Chinese safari park, after thinking they had left the enclosure.

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2 w. ago Husband of woman, 32, who died sacrificing herself to push daughter, five, out way of falling branch reveals desperate attempts to save her

Madia Kauser, 32, was tragically crushed to death while out on a family walk with her husband Wasim Khan, 33, and their two children near Witton Country Park in Blackburn, Lancashire.

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2 w. ago Prosecutors clear Florida deputy in arrest of a Black man punched and dragged from his car

Prosecutors will take “no further action” against a Florida sheriff’s deputy in the arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers during a traffic stop in February

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2 w. ago Woman 'traumatised' after being dragged along by OWN car after thief stole it

Angela Johnson, 54, from Newport, Wales, had been working her weekend delivery job when a man stole her car as she was exiting the vehicle before she was pushed out

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3 w. ago Woman pushed out of car and dragged along road after man creeps up behind her

'I collapsed with fear and couldn't breathe'

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3 w. ago ‘Aggressively provocative’: test screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction

An early test showing of Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming Brontë adaptation suggests the unfinished film features horse-rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nunsEqual parts intrigue and scepticism had already dogged the forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell – whose first two films, Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, displayed a love of mordant and explicit envelope-pushing.As reported by World of Reel, a first test screening for the film, which stars Margot Robbie and Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, took place earlier this week in Dallas, and audience reaction was “mixed”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Aggressively provocative’: first screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction

An early test showing of the forthcoming Brontë adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi reveals film features horse rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nunsEqual parts intrigue and scepticism had already dogged the forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell – whose first two films, Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, displayed a love of mordant and explicit envelope-pushing.As reported by World of Reel, a first test screening for the film, which stars Margot Robbie and Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, took place earlier this week in Dallas, and audience reaction was “mixed”. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Comatose woman woke up moments before organ harvesting surgery... but pushy donor boss 'told doctors to operate anyway'

Danella Gallegos, 41, nearly had her organs harvested by 'pushy' donors at Presbyterian Hospital in New Mexico, despite the fact she was showing signs of life while in a coma in 2022.

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