Naman Ramachandran A wealth of film and TV titles are available at launch on streamer Studiocanal Presents, which is now available as an Amazon Prime Video channel in the U.K.Some 300 films and series from Studiocanal’s catalogue are available at launch, including Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now: Final Cut” in 4K; Brian Helgeland’s “Legend”; Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Inside Llewyn Davis”; a digitally restored version of Carol Reed’s “The Third Man”; Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here,” zombie horror “Train to Busan” and Céline Sciamma’s “Girlhood.”Also available are Nicolas Roeg’s “The Man Who Fell To Earth” and Sidney Lumet’s “Murder on the Orient Express,” award-winners “Manchester by the Sea” and “Room,” seminal titles like Luis Buñuel’s “Belle de Jour” and Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” and modern British classics “Submarine” and “Four Lions.” Other recent additions include Sharon Stone classic “Basic Instinct” and John Carpenter’s “Escape From New York.” Studiocanal Presents also offers TV series showcasing the best of Studiocanal and Canal+’s own TV productions, including “Hannibal,” “Spiral” and “All the Way Up,” which broke streaming records upon its launch on Canal+ in France.A variety of new titles will launch on the channel every month, many of which can’t be streamed anywhere else in the U.K. New titles arriving include “Possessions,” “Animal Kingdom” and “The Guard.” After a seven-day free trial the service costs £4.99 ($6) a month.
He was a 'monster' gang boss who brought terror to the streets and was groomed by Al-Qaeda - now he is doing the very opposite
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An ex-gang boss who groomed children into OCGs across the north west and ‘flooded the streets with guns’ is now looking to use his past for good and steer young people away from crime. Sicarius McGrath was once described as presenting a “monumental risk to the public" but has now turned his life around.
The 41-year-old was involved in gang violence from a young age, from the mid-1990s until 2016, and was sent to prison multiple times including for intimidation, violence and in 2003 was jailed for his role in setting up an illegal gun factory. In 2016 he was sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiracy to blackmail, controlling prostitution and possession of cocaine and a canister of CS gas found at his home on his arrest.
It was as he sat in his cell for these crimes in 2017 that his criminal lifestyle hit home. “I was sat in my cell and a programme covering the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones was televised, Little Boy Blue,” he said.
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“It brought me to tears. I felt partly responsible as I’d put hundreds of weapons on the streets. I straight away wrote to the charity his parents had set-up.
“I had a passion from that point to change myself as a person and use my expertise to help others and reduce the amount of children becoming involved in knife crime, firearms, county lines, youth violence and anti social behaviour.” Since his release from prison, Sicarius, who now lives in Middleton, has worked with charities across the UK and has been in contact with multiple agencies to set-up his own group, OCG Solutions.
This has included attending youth groups to see how they operate, and to test his own
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Kate Bush reacts to ‘Running Up That Hill’ reaching new UK chart peak: “How utterly brilliant!”
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