48 h. ago Film Club: Aimee Lou Wood’s fantastical romcom is part Mike Leigh, part cosy family sitcom

The White Lotus star is an agoraphobic movie lover who puts on elaborate immersive screenings in her garage in this sweet tale of longing, anxiety and family bickering. But is it believable?I’m not sure where Aimee Lou Wood – the Stockport-born star of Sex Education and The White Lotus – got the idea for Film Club (Tuesday 7 October, 10pm, BBC Three), the new drama she has created with fellow actor Ralph Davis, but I’d be amazed if it’s drawn from her own life. Not because the fearlessly outspoken global celebrity plays a woman too scared to set foot outside her mum’s house in Manchester following a nervous breakdown, her only respite being a weekly movie night with uni friends in the garage. No. It’s the garage itself.Each week, unemployed, agoraphobic Evie somehow finds the wherewithal to transform her garage into a spectacular film set. For a screening of Alien, this one-woman Secret Cinema wallpapers it with tinfoil and hazard tape and fills it with smoke, strip lights...

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4 d. ago Tennessee court sets execution date for the state's only woman on death row and 3 male inmates

The Tennessee Supreme Court has set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row

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9 d. ago Boy, 17, killed in ‘horribly dangerous’ TikTok challenge after riding on TABLE being dragged behind friend’s car

A PENNSYLVANIA teenager has been killed in a TikTok-inspired stunt gone wrong after being hurled from a makeshift ride strapped to a car. David Nagy, 17, was taking part in a dangerous “table surfing” challenge when tragedy struck on June 1 in the parking lot of Bethlehem’s Freedom High School. Police say a 17-year-old friend...

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9 d. ago 'RIP son': Boy, 17, killed in tragedy named as his devastated family issue tribute

Liam Bracken died in the crash in Belthorn

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1 week ago Bear goes on rampage through town killing woman & mauling boy, 12, while man has lucky escape as he locks himself in car

THIS is the moment a man cheats death today by leaping into his as a giant wild brown bear pounces on him. Other locals were not so lucky, with an old lady killed and a 12-year-old boy mauled by the beast in the far-eastern Russian city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. CCTV footage shows the enormous bear prowling...

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1 week ago Terrifying moment killer bear attacks man during city rampage that left a woman, 84, dead and saw boy, 12, survive mauling by playing dead

This is the moment a man miraculously cheated death today by clambering into his Toyota when a giant wild brown bear pounced on him.

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1 week ago Controversial statue of Dr Elsie Inglis looks set to be approved as family make statment on artwork

Dr Elsie Inglis is set to become the first woman to have a statue on the Royal Mile.

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1 week ago Controversial statue of Dr Elsie Inglis looks set to be approved as family make statement on artwork

Dr Elsie Inglis is set to become the first woman to have a statue on the Royal Mile.

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1 week ago Harrowing update as boy, 17, killed in car crash involving four other teens

Police shared a tragic update on a horror car crash on a rural UK road - the 17-year-old driver was sadly pronounced dead as four other teens were taken to hospital

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2 w. ago Heartbroken family of boy, 4, killed by falling gravestone speak out after tragedy

Eli Testa was pronounced dead at Rawtenstall Cemetery after he suffered a traumatic brain injury when a gravestone collapsed on top of him

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2 w. ago Jennifer Lopez mistaken for Gwen Stefani as she debuts platinum hair transformation

JLo has shared some behind-the-scenes photos from the set of her upcoming musical drama film Kiss of the Spider Woman, which is due to be released in just a few weeks

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2 w. ago Sister of boy, 17, who killed himself after being falsely accused of rape breaks down as she recalls the night he took his own life in spot where they played as children

Sixth Form student Jay Cheshire, of Southampton, was left 'distraught' after finding himself at the centre of a police investigation when a girl accused him of rape in spring 2015.

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3 w. ago Woman 'set house on fire on purpose', killing boy, 5, as babysitter screamed

Taquida Hendrix, 32, is facing charges of murder and arson in connection with the death of Malakai Stovall on August 1 in Rochester, New York, after his house was set on fire

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3 w. ago Boy's astonishing act after police kill fugitive dad and find children in bush

Police said Maverick Phillips, 10, was wielding a rifle when specialist officers descended on their bush camp near Waitomo, in the district of Waikato, New Zealand

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3 w. ago Toddler dead and nine injured after car crashes through daycare window

The young boy was killed just before pickup time

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3 w. ago Samara Weaving: ‘Starring in a horror film shook the anxiety out of me – I didn’t need my meds after that’

The Australian actor has developed a cult fanbase from her appearances in gory movies including ‘Ready or Not’, ‘Scream VI’ and ‘The Babysitter’. As she plays a stalked pop star in ‘Borderline’, she tells Adam White about soap opera fame, being directed by her husband, and the wonder of her ‘gumnut mafia’

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4 w. ago Mystery of boy's torso found in Thames after 'voodoo ritual' remains decades later

More than two decades since little Adam's torso was discovered in the river Thames, police are no closer to finding the boy's killer after he was slaughtered in a horrific "voodoo ritual"

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