Netflix film showered with critics’ awards as Oscars race heats up
Carlos Somonte/Netflix Roma will be available to stream on Netflix from Friday Roma, a Spanish-language black-and-white Netflix film, has been named the best film of the year in a string of US critics’ awards, confirming its place as one of the leading Oscar contenders. The family drama, set in Mexico in the 1970s, was written […]
Celebrating the Prince of Broadway
Matthew Murphy Scenes from Show Boat will feature in the new musical, Prince of Broadway It’s impossible to survey 20th Century American musical theatre without coming across one name over and over again: Harold “Hal” Prince. As a producer and a director, he has been attached to a greater range of critically and commercially successful […]
Who’s performing and who’s going to win?
Getty Images Adele will give her first performance at the Brit Awards since 2016 The 2022 Brit Awards take place at the O2 Arena on Tuesday night, with Adele, Ed Sheeran, Dave and Little Simz leading the nominations. All four artists are up for the night’s biggest prizes – artist and album of the year […]
Record crowd attends season opener
John Fairhall/BBC Cambridge United’s goal scorer, Francesca Partridge, signing an autograph after the game Cambridge United and Norwich City kicked off their women’s football season with an East Anglian derby on Sunday. On the back of England’s Euro 2022 success last month, a record crowd was in attendance. How much of an impact has the […]
RFU chief John Steele vows to stay despite criticism
His decision to remove England’s senior team from the performance director’s remit was seen as an attempt to block the possible return of 2003 World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward. Despite the RFU board, led by chairman Martyn Thomas, intervening to restore the original job specification, Woodward ruled himself out of the running for the […]
Germany’s new female rabbi sign of growing Jewish community
Alina Treiger today will have all the rights of a male rabbi. Regina Jonas, in contrast, was restricted in her ceremonial duties, confined largely to teaching religion. The reason for the great gap between 1935 and today’s ordination is the Holocaust. Liberal Judaism, which recognised the right of women to be rabbis, started in Germany […]
Gang jailed for trafficking vulnerable people from Latvia
Derbyshire Police Top left to right: Ainars Pelcis and Ilgvars Pelcis. Bottom left to right: Magdalena Kleina, Madara Stromane and Karens Pelcis Members of a gang who forced vulnerable people to sleep on a kitchen floor or share a sofa at night, while taking most of their wages, have been jailed. Over five years, 28 […]
Nightclub owner dies aged 77
Shutterstock Nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow has died at the age of 77, a spokesman has said. The businessman, who had cancer which he had kept private, died in the early hours of Thursday morning. The so-called King of Clubs opened many venues around the world and his eponymous club in London’s West End became a […]
India’s homegrown rival to WhatsApp
Hari Adivarekar Messages about romance and heartbreak are hugely popular on ShareChat It’s a weekday afternoon in India, and some eight million people are venting about love and heartache on a popular local social network. “Sometimes, I feel everyone in India is going through a breakup,” says Farid Ahsan, one of the founders of ShareChat, […]
Jayne Ludlow: Wales players inspiring youngsters, says manager
“Because I think people do enjoy going through this journey.” Wales face Estonia at Wrexham’s Racecourse Stadium on Friday in what could be a record crowd for a women’s international friendly. Ludlow, a former Arsenal midfielder, is encouraged by the increased interest in the women’s game in Wales. “I think the girls have had a […]