‘Deeply ashamed’ Miriam Margolyes admits on BBC’s Imagine to HITTING her paralysed mother

Parts of Scotland are set to see high winds and possible thunderstorms this week as the weather turns wild.

Livingston have been handed a tricky Premier Sports group stage draw - and it features two sides they have yet to meet in competitive fixtures.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a house fire in Doune.

A top chef has created what must be one of the most unique stays in the world - by taking the galley from a Boeing 737 aeroplane and converting it into a kitchen.

Turtle Bay, the Caribbean restaurant chain, is opening a huge new restaurant at Salford Quays. The new spot will be at the waterside terrace area, overlooking the Lowry Theatre.

Naman Ramachandran Michel Fessler, co-writer of “Little Nicholas,” selected at Cannes this year as a special screening, has boarded Ravi K. Chandran’s “Tamara” as scriptwriter.Based on a story by Paris-based playwright and actor Vasanth Selvam (“Dheepan”), the film will follow 26-year-old Indian origin woman Tamara from Camargue in the south of France, who seeks her roots in the southern Indian territory Pondicherry, which was once a French colony.

I’ve found anecdotally through friends and family that Brits use a number of different methods to picking a bottle of wine. Some choose their bottle based on packaging, others on price, while others pick the ones with names they like and some just stick to the one they liked in the pub that one time.

The birth mother of Leiland-James Corkill said her baby boy was 'placed in the home of a monster' after his killer was jailed for life. Laura Corkill, 38, penned an heartbreaking letter asking the judge to pass the longest sentence possible for her 'beautiful, blue eyed boy', LancsLive reports.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticA new recording of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” produced by T Bone Burnett and manufactured as a one-of-a-kind disc in a unique format will be sold at Christie’s in London on July 7, with an estimated value of 600,000-1 million pounds, the auction house announced Wednesday.It’s being described as Dylan’s first studio recording of what is possibly his most famous song since he originally released the folk anthem in 1962. The singular disc, in the acetate-like Ionic Recording format, appears to be autographed by both Dylan and Burnett on one side, and comes in a wooden case that marks it as a “one-of-one.”In late April, Burnett announced that he had gone into the studio with Dylan cut a full album of the legend re-recording his classic material for his new company, NeoFidelity Inc, and its Ionic Originals format, which he described as a new development in analog technology.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentDanish-Iranian director Ali Abbasi’s boundary-pushing serial killer thriller “Holy Spider has been acquired by U.S. sales and distribution company Utopia for North America.Based on a real Iranian crime case, “Holy Spider” – which made a major splash when it premiered in the Cannes competition on Sunday – is about a family man named Saeed (Mehdi Bajestani) who becomes a serial killer as he embarks on his own religious quest to “cleanse” the holy Iranian city of Mashhad of street prostitutes. Pic chronicles a killing spree in the streets of Mashhad, where 16 prostitutes were found dead from 2000 to 2001.  A local journalist, Rahimi (Zar Amir-Ebrahimi), is trying to crack the case as she grows frustrated by the police’s apathy toward finding the murderer.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor everything that music and entertainment do to better people’s lives, it’s all put into a sobering context when you hear someone speak about their work at a cancer treatment center. And the music industry’s work with City of Hope cancer treatment and research center in Los Angeles is one of its greatest charitable efforts.

Jonathan Cohen After pioneering a more artist-friendly live-streaming paradigm as the founder/COO of Veeps, which sold to Live Nation at an eight-figure valuation in 2021, Sherry Saeedi now has her sights set on disrupting the major-label business model. Saeedi, veteran music manager Nick Lippman and Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus have teamed to launch Verswire, which will utilize a venture capital approach to help artists make money and grow their businesses without going into debt while doing so.Somewhat in the vein of the long-running TV show “Shark Tank,” Verswire, which also counts Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz as a strategic advisor, will make custom investments into both new and established acts depending on their needs, while also working directly with these partners as an incubator to dial in everything from distribution, sponsorships, artist development and Web 3.0 strategy.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSinger Elissa, soprano Hiba Tawaji, composer Oussama Rahbani, trumpetist Ibrahim Maalouf and more than 50 musicians performed at the “Night of Hope” at Lebanon’s Forum de Beirut on Sunday night in the largest concert to be held in the country’s capital since the devastating explosion in August of 2020 that killed more than 200 people, left an estimated 300,000 homeless and caused more than $15 billion in damage. The Forum de Beirut was also destroyed by the blast, but has been rebuilt.The concert paid tribute to the families of the explosion’s victims in a brief video, and patriotic songs were performed as part of a broader call to unite the country, which has seen its economy devasted in recent years.

Naman Ramachandran Indian actor Jackie Shroff (“Sooryavanshi”) will play the lead in Singapore-France-India co-production “Slow Joe,” it was revealed at the Cannes Film Market.Shroff will play the late Indian musician Joseph Manuel Da Rocha, known as Slow Joe, a former heroin addict and drug dealer who was born in Mumbai, was disowned by his family, heartbroken at 50 and who moved to Goa and cleaned up. On a trip to Goa in 2007, Lyon-based French musician Cédric de la Chapelle met Joe, now a frail 64-year-old who was making ends meet as a hotel room broker. Joe, also a poet and musician, sang for de la Chapelle, who was captivated by his voice and recorded some of his a cappella songs.Back in France, de la Chapelle played Joe’s songs for music producer Olivier Boccon-Gibod of Horizon Musiques, who was also entranced.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterJohnny Depp’s ex-girlfriend, supermodel Kate Moss, testified on Wednesday that Depp did not push her down a flight of stairs while they were dating in the 1990s.Moss was called to debunk that story — the subject of a longstanding tabloid rumor — as Depp’s defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard neared its conclusion in Fairfax, Va. Moss appeared by video link from Gloucestershire, England, and testified for a total of about five minutes.Depp is suing Heard for referencing her domestic violence allegations against him in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed.

Fans of the popular podcast, Sh***** Married Annoyed will be able to get tickets for the live show this week.

Kate Moss took to the stand via video link from her home in Gloucestershire to testify in the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard defamation trial.MORE: The real reason behind Kate Moss and Johnny Depp's breakup revealedSpeaking out in support of her ex-boyfriend, the British supermodel revealed what really happened amid the rumors of Johnny pushing her down the stairs."Did there come a time while you and Mr Depp were a couple that the two of you took a trip to the Golden Eye resort in Jamaica?" she was asked, to which she replied: "Yes".VIDEO: Kate Moss speaks out in court defending Johnny DeppShe was then asked: "What if anything happened when you were in Jamaica with Mr Depp?"MORE: Johnny Depp: Here's what his lawyer really said as he celebrated Amber Heard's Kate Moss commentMORE: Johnny Depp receives shock support from unexpected ally during Amber Heard trialKate replied: "I was leaving the room and there had been a rainstorm and as I left the room I slid down the stairs and I hurt my back.

Idlewild have announced a reissue and 20th anniversary tour for their 2002 album ‘The Remote Part’ – get tickets for the gigs here and find all the details below.The new reissue comes on the back of the band celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2021 with a retrospective book and career-spanning UK tour.On July 15 – 20 years to the day since its initial release – ‘The Remote Part’ will be reissued on black LP, with the vinyl available to pre-order via Dig! now.Speaking to the website in an excerpt of a soon-to-be-released interview, frontman Roddy Woomble said: “Simply speaking, ‘The Remote Part’ is the most popular, commercially successful record that Idlewild ever made.“None of our other records achieved that level of popularity. So it’s the defining record for the group.”Last month, the band announced a gig in Ullapool where they would play ‘The Remote Part’ in its entirety, and that has now been revealed to be just one show on a full UK tour marking 20 years of the album.Gigs on the tour will be spread out from August to December this year, with the Ullapool gig set for September 3.See the full list of dates below and pick up tickets here.AUGUST 20223 – Galway, Roisin Dubh4 – Dublin, Button Factory5 – Belfast, The Empire29 – Edinburgh, Connect FestivalSEPTEMBER 20223 – Ullapool, Village Hall19 – Stourbridge, Town Hall20 – Manchester, New CenturyDECEMBER17 – London, O2 Forum Kentish TownThe band’s latest studio album, ‘Interview Music’, came out in 2019.

Actor Miriam Margolyes has defended J K Rowling and said that the backlash against the Harry Potter author for her transphobic views was “misplaced”.Margolyes, who played Professor Pomona Sprout in the Harry Potter films, said that she “admired” Rowling, who she said was a “generous woman”.Trigger Warning: This story discusses transphobic comments, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.This week's #RadioTimesCover star is an 80-year-old with a mischievous streak: Miriam Margolyes!

faced death threats and calls to be canceled over her remarks.“There isn’t one answer to all these trans questions,” Margolyes told the UK’s Radio Times magazine, according to Yahoo News.“We all know people who are slightly pansy or a bit butch or whatever you call it,” the actress said, saying that “there is a spectrum and people can be anywhere along that.”“But I think the vituperation J.K. Rowling has received is misplaced,” she said of the vitriol directed at the author.“I admire her as a human being.

Harry Potter co-star Emma Watson and the franchise's creator JK Rowling have taken opposing stances. Emma has been outspoken on trans issues and appeared to snub the author at the BAFTA Awards earlier this year.She said she is "here for all the witches" while presenting an award at the event, in an apparent reference to Rowling's criticism of Labour Leader Keir Starmer saying "trans women are women”.The author had already faced criticism two years ago when she mocked an article's use of the phrase "people who menstruate", instead of "women”.Now Miriam has insisted she would arbitrate between Emma and Rowling in the debate “if anybody asked me”.And despite the “vituperation” Rowling has been subjected to, Miriam insisted the author is “a generous woman”.She said: “There isn’t one answer to all these trans questions.