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John Irvin obituary
John Irvin, the British film-maker best known for directing the BBC’s acclaimed adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, has died aged 86. His career spanned an eclectic range of genres and collaborators, from war reportage and cold war espionage to Hollywood horror and action films, working with figures as varied as Harold Pinter and Arnold…
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The child sex monster hidden in plain sight in the halls of power for seven years: How a court blunder concealed a senior Labor insider
A former senior New South Wales Labor government adviser, Craig Munnings, has been secretly tried and convicted of 14 child sex offences after a suppression order mistakenly concealed his identity for more than seven years. Munnings, once dubbed corrupt mining minister Ian Macdonald’s “right-hand man” and an adviser to several Labor ministers, remained on bail…
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Horror as California mailman is accused of beating beloved neighborhood peacock with a ROCK after it followed him
A California mailman is under investigation after security footage allegedly showed him striking a beloved neighbourhood peacock with a rock and then a club or stick in Pasadena. The bird, known as Sugar, had followed the postal worker to his delivery truck when the alleged attack occurred, sparking outrage among residents who had long cared…
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Balaclava-wearing youths gather with flares in hand to mark lives of dead ‘joyriders’… while across the city silent prayers are held for PCs killed in A66 horror
A vigil for five young men who died after driving the wrong way down the A66 and colliding head-on with a police car descended into chaos on Monday afternoon, as balaclava-clad attendees set off flares and fireworks in a field in South Bank, near Middlesbrough. The scene contrasted sharply with a solemn church service held…
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Two week electricity blackout sees power crews SHOT AT in notoriously-scary Midwest city where Michael Jackson was born
Restoration crews working to restore power in Gary, Indiana were forced to briefly halt operations after being shot at overnight, following storms that left thousands of residents without electricity for roughly two weeks. Two NIPSCO utility workers were surveying Rutledge Street just after midnight on 15 August when gunfire struck their vehicle twice; neither employee…
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BBCSSO/Canellakis review – electrifying trio of women unleash the horror in Strauss’s Elektra
Karina Canellakis conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance of Richard Strauss’s Elektra at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, drawing praise for the huge orchestra’s playing and, above all, for an outstanding cast of singers. Elektra’s vast instrumental forces, including heckelphones, basset horns and Wagner tubas, make staged productions impractical for all…
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Post your questions for Alex Winter
Alex Winter, best known for playing the vampire biker Marko in The Lost Boys and Bill S Preston Esq in the Bill & Ted films, is set to answer questions from Guardian readers as part of the paper’s ongoing interview series. The feature invites readers to submit queries about his career, which spans acting, directing…