3 h. ago Grooming gangs inquiry in chaos: Labour probe into child sex abuse falling apart as potential chairman and three victims pull out amid 'cover

In a farcical development, a candidate to lead the child sexual abuse review pulled out at a late stage. Three victims have also resigned from an advisory group, labelling it a 'cover-up'.

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4 h. ago BBC Breakfast staff 'slam' bosses for 'double standards' amid Kaye Adams job suspension

BBC Breakfast staff are rumoured to be raging at the "double standards" of suspending Kaye Adams from Radio Scotland whilst their own presenters remain in their roles whilst under review

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5 h. ago Grooming gangs inquiry in chaos: Labour probe into child sex abuse falling apart as potential chairman and three victims pull out amid 'cover

In a farcical development, a candidate to lead the child sexual abuse review pulled out at a late stage.

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6 h. ago I tested Apple’s new MacBook Pro M5 – and there’s an unexpected change

The tech giant’s new processor makes an impressive laptop even better

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9 h. ago Mosque that 'banned' women over 12 from charity park runs says it will 'review' format for next year

The East London Mosque, which was accused of excluding women from a charity park run, has said it will 'review' the format for next year. The 5k race was only open to men, boys and girls under 12.

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9 h. ago I’ve tried the Apple Vision Pro M5, here’s how it beats the original

It’s speedier, lighter, more comfortable and, crucially, hundreds of pounds cheaper than the OG headset

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10 h. ago #MeToo campus thriller After the Hunt is provocation for provocation’s sake | Adrian Horton

Julia Roberts emerges unscathed but Luca Guadagnino’s tiring and muddled attempt to comment on trending topics doesn’t inspire the debates it so clearly wantsContains mild spoilersIn theory, After the Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s would-be psychological thriller tracing the fallout of a sexual-assault accusation at a cosseted Ivy League campus, hinges on a single early scene: Alma, the aloof and alluring philosophy professor made icily incandescent by Julia Roberts, arrives home to find Maggie, her doctoral student protege played by ascendant star Ayo Edebiri, waiting for her in the rain.Crouched together in an apartment stairwell – Guadagnino, a slick and stylish film-maker, frames them facing each other as mirrored negatives in preppy neutrals, a generational yin-yang – Maggie tells Alma in clipped, digressive bits that something bad happened with Hank (Andrew Garfield), a fellow tenure-track professor who serves as Alma’s professional rival, friend and maybe lover. The two had...

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10 h. ago Durham failure to contact abuse victims ‘a matter of concern’, review finds

Michael Strange has previously been convicted of 34 separate offences against 10 victims between 1993 and 2004.

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12 h. ago Ninja Gaiden 4 review: Brutal, speedy, bloody combat that's addictive fun on Xbox

Team Ninja is back after 13 years with the first mainline entry in the Ninja Gaiden series in ages and what we're faced with is a brutal rain-soaked Tokyo that's packed full of enemies to slay

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13 h. ago Xiaomi S4 41mm review: the stylish smartwatch that actually looks good on your wrist

Smartwatches don’t have to look clunky. Xiaomi’s latest S4 makes a case for beauty, brains, and brilliant value

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13 h. ago The Ordinary’s retinal was the ‘most affordable and effective’ in our tests

The formula is £20 cheaper than similar products

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13 h. ago I got my hands on the iPad Pro M5, but is it worth the upgrade?

Still unbeatably slim, and unchanged in appearance, the Pro is now furture-proofed with Apple’s newest chip

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16 h. ago Debenhams shoppers save £526 on 'very classy' watch now £69 in 88% off sale

The stylish watch comes in a number of different finishes from black and blue to brown and gold - all now slashed in price

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17 h. ago Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 review – an interestingly toothless piece of noir fiction

PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox (version tested); The Chinese Room/Paradox InteractiveArriving more than two decades after the original, this sequel was mired in development disaster – resulting in an interesting almost-failureYou are an ancient and powerful vampire, and you wake up in the basement of some decrepit Seattle building, with no recent memories and a strange sigil on your hand. The first thing you do is feed on the cop who finds you, before smacking his partner into a wall so hard that his blood spatters the brick. A violent fanged rampage ensues, where you beat up and tear apart rival undead and their ghouls while currying the favour of the local court of vampires, and trying to keep your existence hidden from the mortal populace of this sultry city.But this is also a detective story: there’s a younger night-stalker sharing your brain, a voice in your head named Fabian, who talks like a 1920s gumshoe (presumably because he once was one). Fabian isn’t violent at all; he evidentl...

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17 h. ago The stylish essentials to buy to elevate your gardening wardrobe

Level up your gardening style with these great fashionable and practical buys

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17 h. ago Government update over MOT test review to 'modernise' the service

A driving expert said the current MOT doesn't account for the new tech in more modern cars

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18 h. ago TV REVIEW: We see if 'Revival Season 1' has plenty of life in it

More mysteries the supernatural show reveals the less engaging it becomes.

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18 h. ago Jennifer Aniston channels 70s icon with her £90 'comfortable and stylish' retro trainers

Jennifer Aniston has been channelling her inner Farrah Fawcett with her retro 70s trainers, and you can pick up her ‘comfortable and stylish’ pair of Nikes for under £90

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18 h. ago I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity

The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translationFrom the early 2000s until the Covid lockdowns, Hu Anyan was one of China’s vast army of internal migrants, moving between cities in pursuit of work. He did 19 jobs – shop assistant, hotel waiter, petrol attendant and security guard, among other things – in six cities. Although all these jobs were atrociously paid, they still earned him more than the one he tried for two years in the middle of this period: writer. (An 8,000-word story earned him less than 300 yuan – about £30.) Then, during Covid, he wrote a blog about his night shifts in a logistics warehouse, and it went viral. The blog expanded and became I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, which has sold nearly 2m copies in China since being published in 2023, and now appears in Jack Hargreaves’s English translation.The low-paid Chinese worker is at the mercy of an entirely unrestrained market. The jobs Hu does dema...

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19 h. ago The Unbelievers review: 'A tour de force performance by Nicola Walker'

Nick Payne’s play about a missing child is empathetic and sincere, with a powerhouse performance from Nicola Walker

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