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Jellyfish, gingerbread men, shoals of fish, a horde of mice, a polar bear and a dragon are just some of the characters in a cast of hundreds of lantern characters in this Friday's (5th December 2025) Ashbourne Christmas Lantern Spectacular. Fun starts from 18.30pm. Spark! – an internationally reno...
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Win a pair of tickets to see Frankie Mack @ The Stroller Hall in Manchester on Saturday 17th January 2026, as the Scottish singer and showman Frankie Mack brings his celebrated live experience The Next Stage Tour to the City. Fresh from his third consecutive Edinburgh Fringe and a sold-out run at...
Plans have been reduced over time with now 160 homes set to be built on site
Focus / Culture - 11 hours ago
Gloria Swanson is extraordinary as faded film-star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s cameo-packed self-referential masterpiece about tinseltown ghosts and delusionsBilly Wilder’s film starring Gloria Swanson as a reclusive former silent movie star, and William Holden as a young wannabe writer who beco...
Focus / Culture - 12 hours ago
It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky supertalls, is Britain next?Among the slender needles and elegant spires of the Manhattan skyline, a mounta...
Focus / Culture - 12 hours ago
This year’s outstanding tracks – from post-punk rap to indie-disco and operatic pop – as voted for by 30 Guardian music writers***20 Continue reading...
The move will make it 'easier and cheaper' for some motorists
A lower turn-out was seen just seven months after the May local elections
Focus / Culture - 13 hours ago
Tarantino has called Dano a ‘weak, weak uninteresting guy’, ‘the giant flaw’ in There Will Be Blood – and the main reason it is not his favourite film of the 21st centuryHow does the saying go? Opinions are like arseholes? Arseholes like opinions? Anyway: Quentin Tarantino went on The Bret Easton El...
Focus / Culture - 13 hours ago
Pillion, which explores a relationship between leather dom Ray (Alexander Skarsgård) and submissive Colin (Harry Melling), has just opened in UK cinemas. But how realistic is its portrayal of a group little seen in mainstream cinema?Dr Lori Beth Bisbey, 62, Edinburgh Continue reading...
Focus / Culture - 13 hours ago
Hersh’s record on uncovering the big stories, from My Lai to Abu Ghraib, speaks for itself. This documentary watches him at work: dogged, nonconformist and combativeRenowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh was never played in a film by Robert Redford or Dustin Hoffman, like the Washington Pos...
Focus / Culture - 13 hours ago
Jack Lueders-Booth has been racing, repairing and photographing motorbikes for decades. His new book captures those people who crave the risk and romance of the road Continue reading...
Focus / Culture - 13 hours ago
She recounts the shocking experience in this excellent documentary. Plus: the investigation into the Sycamore Gap tree. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Two“My child was not even two when I left her … She was nearly eight when I came back.” Following the excellent BBC drama about her six-ye...
Focus / Culture - 14 hours ago
From the threat of superintelligent AI to the secrets of a longer life; plus the evolution of language and the restless genius of Francis Crick This felt like the year that AI really arrived. It is on our phones and laptops; it is creeping into digital& and corporate infrastructure; it is changing t...
A monumental effort from churchgoers means that there is good news on the horizon for All Saints' Church in Mackworth