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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Harry Potter fans have successfully pressured the developer of a £430m undersea power cable linking Britain and Ireland to reroute it, after learning it would pass through the fictional “grave” of the house-elf Dobby on Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire. Dobby was buried at the Welsh beach in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly…
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British schoolgirl, 16, dies and two siblings left seriously injured after ‘terrible accident’ on family holiday
A 16-year-old British schoolgirl has died and two of her siblings have been left seriously injured following what has been described as a “terrible accident” while the family was on holiday. The tragedy has left the family devastated and has drawn attention as a heartbreaking case of a family outing turning fatal. Details of the…
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Mayobridge to Madden – Smyth enjoying next level in NFL
As he enters his first pre-season as an NFL starter, County Down’s Charlie Smyth says he is getting used to being a player rather than fan of the sport.
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‘Men have 30 seconds to get a laugh. Women have 10’: standup Bella Hull on proving herself in rough clubs
Comedian Bella Hull, now 28, talks about a decade spent building her standup career the hard way, starting on the open-mic circuit at 17 and working “unsafe basements” and rough clubs rather than relying on the university comedy pipeline. She studied history of art at Cambridge but deliberately avoided the Footlights route into comedy, preferring…
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‘Letters From the Silenced Country,’ Documentary About Oppression in Belarus, Boarded by Filmotor Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
Filmotor has acquired world sales rights to “Letters From the Silenced Country,” a documentary by exiled Belarusian filmmaker Andrei Kutsila, ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The partly animated film portrays contemporary Belarus through the stories of individuals who have suffered imprisonment, repression and exile under the country’s autocratic regime, using…
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Sanctuary review – tender, uplifting portrait of love in the Aids crisis
A review of Sanctuary, Jacob Sparrow’s award-winning debut play showing at the Pleasance Dome as part of the Edinburgh festival 2026, praises it as a small-scale but surprisingly uplifting depiction of two gay men living with HIV/Aids in the 1990s. The Guardian’s critic finds it a tender counterpart to the larger Angels in America revival…
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John Oliver Eviscerates The “Bizarro World” Of Trump’s DOJ On ‘Last Week Tonight’
On his HBO show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver criticised what he called the “bizarro-world version of civil rights” being pursued by Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. Oliver argued that while high-profile political prosecutions have increased under Trump, more substantive DOJ work has been neglected or mishandled, a shift he says has attracted far less…
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Alaska Airlines flight grounded as passengers ‘threaten to take over plane’
I wasn’t able to retrieve the actual article content — the text supplied is just the Daily Mail’s site navigation and a list of unrelated headlines, not the story about the Alaska Airlines flight. I can’t responsibly summarise details (what happened on board, passenger numbers, airline/airport statements, etc.) that aren’t present in what was provided,…
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Wholesome animal chat that will melt your cynicism: best podcasts of the week
The Guardian’s weekly podcast round-up highlights Matt Baker’s Petcast as its pick of the week, a light-hearted celebrity interview show in which guests discuss their pets, alongside recommendations spanning history, true crime and sport. The selection offers a mix of comforting entertainment and more serious fare, reflecting the breadth of subjects currently popular in podcasting,…
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Space Agencies Are Trying to Keep Astronauts From Losing Their Sight
The European Space Agency has commissioned British startup Siloton to develop a compact eye-scanning device to help understand and eventually treat spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS), a condition that damages astronauts’ eyesight during long missions. The work is being done ahead of the Artemis programme’s crewed missions to the moon and other deep space journeys, where…