Four 'main priorities' unveiled by North Ayrshire Council as part of major plan

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Six youths were arrested in Cumnock over the weekend as cops launched a crackdown on disorder.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Pixar animation film “Elemental” expanded further at the South Korean box office in its fourth weekend of release, giving the film its third weekend triumph in four weeks of release. “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” took third place from preview screening ahead of its official release on Wednesday. “Elemental” earned $6.11 million between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the box office tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). That represented a 14% increase on its previous weekend performance and was the best of its four weekends so far. It also increased its market share to 49%, also its strongest market position, despite only adding a handful of additional screens.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed three anti-LGBTQ+ bills Wednesday in defiance of veto-proof Republican majorities in the state legislature. Photo: North Carolina Governor’s Office.

statement announcing his veto of the bills, Cooper accused Republicans of “scheming for the next election” by “hurting vulnerable children” and pushing “political culture wars.”He likened the measures to the state’s infamous HB 2 “bathroom bill” restricting transgender access to certain public multi-user facilities, which passed in 2016 and led to a large-scale economic backlash against the state.“A doctor’s office is no place for politicians, and North Carolina should continue to let parents and medical professionals make decisions about the best way to offer gender care for their children,” Cooper said of the restrictions on gender-affirming care, which prohibit rarely-recommended surgical procedures, hormone therapy, and puberty blockers, as well as mental health therapy that affirms a trans-identifying youth’s gender identity.“Ordering doctors to stop following approved medical protocols sets a troubling precedent and is dangerous for vulnerable youth and their mental health,” Cooper added.

Council chiefs have agreed to buy the remaining site of the former Ashton-under-Lyne bus station as part of plans to regenerate the town.

Councillors have hit out at plans to radically redraw the Dumbarton Scottish Parliament constituency.

BST Hyde Park, BLACKPINK have made history as the first K-Pop band to headline a major UK festival. Check out footage of the show, as well as the full setlist below.Taking to the stage this weekend, the girl group performed an electrifying 17-song set to their sold-out crowd of 65,000 fans, and made history as the first Korean pop group to headline a major UK festival.Introducing themselves to their London audience, Jennie, Jisoo, Rosé and Lisa kicked off their milestone set with ‘Pink Venom’, ‘How You Like That’, ‘Pretty Savage’ and ‘Kick It’, before breaking into a rendition of their first-ever single ‘Whistle’ — which first launched them to fame in 2016.The four-piece also brought the energy to their 90-minute-long set, blasting through back-to-back choreography and outfit changes. During the show, Rosé declared: “​​We’re absolutely honoured to perform here at Hyde Park… It’s a dream come true!”Other fan favourites played at the gig included ‘Tally’ and ‘Typa Girl’, as well as a “solo” part of the show where each member took the limelight and performed an individual rendition of one of their favourite tracks.

captioned an Instagram video of the plane and emergency crews on the ground at the Western Carolina Regional Airport. TMZ reported that there were six passengers, two pilots and two chihuahuas on board.No one appeared to be injured, according to dispatch paperwork obtained by The Post from Cherokee County E-911 Communications.

Domingo Germán, the Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, engaged in conversation with his pitching coach, Matt Blake, after completing a flawless seventh inning.Little did they know that this unconventional interaction would be inconsequential. Germán retired the next six Athletics batters, etching his name in the records of baseball history as he achieved the 24th perfect game in Major League Baseball.Speaking in Spanish through an interpreter during an on-field interview with the YES Network, Germán couldn’t contain his enthusiasm.

Rolling Stone.Rolling Stone said in its Wednesday report that it interviewed more than 40 people who knew Majors during his time as a graduate student and a budding Hollywood star, or were in his orbit during tumultuous romantic relationships. They described volatile, unpredictable moments of anger, emotional abuse and occasional violence, and all spoke on condition anonymity.Rolling Stone did not speak directly with any of Majors’ former girlfriends, however.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Oh Seok-geun, head of the Asian Contents and Film Market in Busan, has resigned. Oh’s exit follows the resignation earlier this week of Busan International Film Festival chairman Lee Yong-kwan and the earlier departure of festival director Huh Moonyoung. “I submitted my resignation to the BIFF. I decided this was the best choice I could make. I hope my decision will help solve the BIFF situation,” Oh told Variety. A spokesman for the festival confirmed that Oh had tendered his resignation and said that the organization will frame its response next week.

Drug supply charges in North Ayrshire ended the year down 22 per cent on the five-year average.

Naman Ramachandran The BFI has set a major U.K.-wide film celebration of one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships in the history of cinema: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988), best known for iconic films including “The Red Shoes” (1948), “A Matter of Life and Death” (1946) and “Black Narcissus” (1947), the latter of which premiered on Wednesday at Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore as part of Il Cinema Ritrovato, screening from a new 35mm print made by the BFI. From Martin Scorsese to Matthew Bourne, Kate Bush to Tilda Swinton, Powell and Pressburger have influenced creatives for decades and this is the largest and most wide-ranging exploration ever undertaken about the work of the legendary writer-producer-director team. The celebration will kick off this fall with the BFI Distribution re-release of “I Know Where I’m Going” (1945), recently restored by the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Lee Yong-kwan, one of the original founders of the Busan International Film Festival, says he is stepping down as the event’s chairman – this time with immediate effect. He says the move is intended to defuse a morass of factional infighting and political interference surrounding Asian’s most prominent film festival. A festival spokesman told Variety that the board of directors “has decided to persuade the chairperson to return. So, the resignation has not been accepted yet.”

The ever-controversial Ice Cube took to Twitter today to promise he’ll shake things up in an upcoming podcast tour that promises to burn a few bridges.

A £4.7m investment project at the waste water treatment works (WWTW) serving Stewarton has been successfully completed.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Busan International Film Festival has apologized for its mishandling of the resignation of its executive director Huh Moon-young and related sexual harassment allegations. “We sincerely apologize over the sexual harassment case that occurred in the workplace,” BIFF said in a Korean-language statement on Thursday. (A festival spokesperson said that an English-language statement, along with an update, will be issued in the coming days.) Huh has publicly denied the allegations, though he has not replied to email and telephone requests for comment by Variety.

Editor’s note: Part 2 of two-part series about the writers strike crossing the 50-day mark.

‘Halli-Galli’ is notably produced by Hot Sauce, a JYP Entertainment producer. In addition to the title track, PLAN B’s debut release will include two other songs, ‘LON (Overflow)’ and ‘Sunday to Monday’.The upcoming H.LAND Entertainment group comprises five members: Hwi, Roy, Hao, James and Han, who hail from South Korea, Thailand and China.Members Roy and James had previously participated in the reality TV competition Seven Stars, through which Thai-Korean boyband THE7 was formed.