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Venice best actress winner says she signed on at Danish job centre days before her victory
Danish actor Mathilde Arcel won the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice film festival on Saturday for her first leading feature role, in May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown, which also took the Golden Lion for best film. Shortly beforehand, she had flown back to Copenhagen to sign on at the job centre, as she…
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Channel 4 poaches Paramount’s TV ad sales business from Sky
Channel 4 has won the television advertising sales business of Paramount, owner of Channel 5, taking it away from Sky in a deal worth more than £300m. The move is a significant boost for Channel 4, which depends on advertising for around 90% of its £1bn revenue, and comes just days after the broadcaster announced…
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Farage says a Reform UK government would stop unions funding Labour if they block £72m donations – UK politics live
Nigel Farage has warned that a future Reform UK government would prevent trade unions from funding the Labour Party if unions succeed in pushing through a cap on political donations, after his own party received an unprecedented £72m from two donors. Trade unions responded with a joint statement stopping short of backing an outright cap…
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Parents seek out school uniform deals, cutting average spend to £54.53
Parents and carers in Great Britain spent 12.5% less on school uniform ahead of this academic year, as households squeezed by the cost of living crisis turned to promotions and secondhand items to cut costs. The average uniform spend fell to £54.53 in the four weeks to 6 September, down from £62.29 a year earlier,…
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Fast, furious and potentially fatal: why are supercars suddenly so popular?
Supercars, once the preserve of the ultra-rich, are becoming increasingly visible on British roads and in popular culture, driven by rentals, finance deals, influencer culture and the “manosphere”. The Metropolitan police have stepped up enforcement, using newly strengthened powers to seize vehicles driven antisocially or illegally, highlighting tension between the cars’ growing accessibility and the…
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How Promise David emerged from Maltese shadows into the Premier League
Brighton’s summer signing Promise David has gone from playing in Estonia’s little-watched top division to becoming a Canada World Cup goalscorer and Premier League forward in the space of a few years, a rise that has stunned even those who coached him from the start. His loan move from Royale Union Saint-Gilloise to Brighton, if…
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Open weights are not open source: Why AI’s favorite label is under dispute
The AI industry frequently labels models “open source” when they are, at most, “open-weight” — a distinction that matters because it determines whether users can merely run a finished model or actually inspect, reproduce, alter and redistribute the system that created it. Open weights let developers download a model, self-host it and fine-tune it without…
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Apple TV cleaned up at the Emmys with eight wins for Widow’s Bay and Pluribus
Apple TV dominated the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning eight prizes overall, including six for comedy horror series Widow’s Bay and two for the acclaimed drama Pluribus. This puts the seven-year-old streaming service ahead of longstanding rival HBO in the main ceremony for the second year running, underlining how quickly Apple has established itself as…
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No one could stand in the way of this juggernaut! The biggest shocks from the Emmy awards
Hollywood’s Emmy awards produced a string of surprises, with the comedy Hacks suffering a stark reversal of fortune despite entering the ceremony with a record 24 nominations. Jean Smart won lead actress in a comedy for the fourth consecutive season of the show, making her the first woman to win an Emmy for every season…
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Make NHS and MoD uniforms in UK, fashion firms urge Burnham
The thinktank Fashion Roundtable is delivering a letter to Downing Street urging the housing secretary Andy Burnham to commit to manufacturing NHS and Ministry of Defence uniforms in the UK, arguing that domestic public procurement contracts would help preserve Britain’s manufacturing industry. The letter, signed by more than 1,200 people including adventurer Ben Fogle and…