Labour leader Keir Starmer says he's ruled out bringing HS2 to the North

Today, it’s easy to put Martin Scorsese up there as one of the greatest American film directors of all time. However, according to one of his longest collaborators, that feeling is relatively new, as studios didn’t respect him as a living legend until the last decade or so.

Viewers of The Masked Singer have worked out who is behind the Piranha costume thanks to a major song clue. The fishy character was back on stage on Saturday night (January 27) as the zany ITV singing competition returned to screens.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The debate around Oscar snubs exploded following the announcement of the 2024 Academy Award nominations, which now infamously excluded “Barbie” filmmaker Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie from the best director and actress races. Michelle Yeoh, who won the best actress Oscar last year for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” was asked to weigh in on the controversy during a recent interview on “Today.” “Joy and disappointment, it seems to go hand in hand,” Yeoh said. “There’s not enough nominations to go around.

Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner was confronted during a speech at a Stockport hotel by a man who lost five loved ones in bombing in Gaza. Pro-Palestinian protesters, calling for the party to support for a ceasefire in the Isreal-Hamas conflict, were ejected from the £35-a-ticket fundraising event at around 9.30pm on Thursday (January 25).

A Greater Manchester MP has called for an 'immediate' and 'sustainable' ceasefire in Gaza. Gorton MP Afzal Khan, who quit the Labour frontbench in November over the party's stance on the Middle East conflict, will present a petition to Parliament today (January 24).

Sofia Coppola is opening up about why Apple canceled The Custom of the Country series.

“When Mexico sends people, they’re not sending their best” speech, “The View” hosts discussed it. Osbourne, now 39, was a guest host at the time, chatting about his speech with Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie Perez. “If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilets, Donald Trump?” she said.

HBO‘s The Last Of Us adaptation has ruled out the return of Bill and Frank in season two – see what he had to say below.Speaking to Deadline Hollywood at HBO’s post-Emmys party earlier this week, Mazin laid to rest actor Nick Offerman’s previous teasing that a spin-off series focusing on Bill and Frank’s relationship, which was condensed into a singular but critically acclaimed episode in season one.“It certainly has been pitched,” Offerman said after winning a Creative Arts Emmy last week. “I think we pitched a whole mini-series of a prequel of their lives before they met each other.

Maybe it’s the fact that he’s worked in Hollywood for decades now, but Vincent D’Onofrio isn’t shy of talking about his Marvel work. Unlike some of the younger actors who avoid Marvel questions like the plague, the Kingpin actor is happy to shed some light on the behind-the-scenes stuff going on at Marvel Studios.

While The Last Of Us‘ main focus is Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) journey through post-apocalyptic America, the characters they meet along the way leave a major impression as evident by the seven Guest Actor/Actress In a Drama series Emmy nominations for the video game adaptation and wins in both fields for Nick Offerman and Storm Reid.

Vulnerable, elderly patients waiting more than a day for a bed; patients at the end of their lives dying in A&E while they’re waiting for a bed to pass away in dignity; and an estimated ‘2,000 excess deaths in November’ alone.

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Sir Keir Starmer has said that only a 'handful' of cases linked to the Horizon scandal may have been handled by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) during his time in charge of the organisation. The Labour leader, who was the Director of Public Prosecutions at the CPS between 2008 and 2013, has said he was not aware of Horizon cases brought against subpostmasters.

Labour leader Keir Starmer has set out what he would do for Greater Manchester if he becomes Prime Minister. In a wide-ranging interview with the Manchester Evening News, Sir Keir spoke about transport, housing and devolution as well as the conflict in the Middle East.

Labour leader Keir Starmer will work 'hand in glove' with Andy Burnham and give him more power if he becomes Prime Minister. Sir Keir told the Manchester Evening News that more power will be put in the hands of local leaders in Greater Manchester under a Labour government.

Wetherspoons will open its first ever pub at a holiday park after signing a deal with Haven. The first on-site venue operated by the pub chain is set to open its doors at Haven Primrose Valley Holiday Park in North Yorkshire in March.

Labour has called for prosecution powers to be stripped from the Post Office and previous convictions looked at again following the Horizon scandal.

Frank Sidebottom’s talk show. Check out the footage below.Soul, best known for playing Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson on Starsky & Hutch in the 1970s, died on Thursday (January 4), following what his wife Helen Snell described as a “valiant battle for life in the loving company of family”.He went on to have his own music career, with the UK Number One singles ‘Don’t Give Up on Us’ and ‘Silver Lady’, but it is a very different musical performance that has been doing the rounds on social media this weekend.Soul once appeared on Frank Sidebottom’s Proper Telly Show, a short-lived anarchic chat show that was broadcast on Channel M in Greater Manchester in 2006 and 2007.The show, hosted by the absurdist comedian Chris Sievey’s persona Frank Sidebottom, welcomed Soul as a guest on the December 1, 2006 episode, with the two of them ending the show by playing a seemingly impromptu version of The Fall’s 1987 single ‘Hit the North’.“He’s playing it, can you believe it!” Sidebottom says as Soul takes to the keyboard to open the track.

Russell Crowe has had several brushes with the law over the years — and it turns out that one of his distant ancestors was also something of a rogue.

The country will go to the poll within the next 12 months to choose a new government. The last general election took place in December 2019 when Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats.