Alan Turing: Last News

A courthouse near Manchester is unrecognisable after undergoing a stunning renovation that has seen the historic building completely reimagined.

A popular mural in the Gay Village depicting beloved drag queen Divina De Campo has been defaced with homophobic slurs once again.

New bank notes featuring King Charles III will have entered circulation today (5 June), although it could be a while before they find their way into purses and wallets across the country. Notes featuring the late Queen Elizabeth II will remain legal tender while slowly being replaced with new notes. The new £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes feature a portrait of the King that was taken in 2013.The reverse side of the bank notes have remained the same featuring Sir Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, JMW Turner and Alan Turing.

Lives of historical figures often get cinematic treatment to tell sweeping tales of real life events. From United States Presidents to their wives and First Ladies, to Supreme Court Justices to scientists and brilliant minds, nobody is off limits, especially if the stories are triumphant. Others have more tragic endings.

What To Watch. Today we recommend a mix of new releases and newly available titles, from movies and shows, all available to stream on the most popular platforms.What to Watch: 7 movies and shows to stream this week - Jan 12What to Watch: 7 movies and shows to stream this week - January 19Sofia Vergara is back on TV, with “Griselda” premiering on Netflix over the past week. The series follows the rise and fall of Griselda Blanco, one of the most successful drug lords in history.“Queer Eye” is back for its eighth season, set in New Orleans.

K.J. Yossman In 2013 Jamie Byng, CEO of publisher Canongate, gathered a host of familiar faces including Nick Cave and Gillian Anderson in a disused London church and persuaded them to read a bunch of letters in front of an audience for charity. Cave selected the message he’d sent to MTV turning down a nomination for Best Male Artist while Anderson re-enacted a letter Katharine Hepburn wrote to Spencer Tracy decades after he’d died.

Elon Musk touched down in his private jet at Luton airport outside London on Tuesday ahead of the UK’s two-day artificial intelligence safety summit, which kicks off on Wednesday.

A few minutes past midday, a huge maypole with the colours of the rainbow flag turns the corner on Deansgate boldly telling the hundreds who have lined the streets that they are gathered here today to celebrate the Queerly Beloved.

BBC Radio 4’s “Desert Island Discs” show and said, “I am always very flattered when gay men come up to me and talk to me about ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ or they talk about ‘Supernova.’ ” He continued: “They say that, ‘It was just so beautiful,’ you know, ‘You did it the right way.’ Because often, it’s not done the right way.“An actor is an actor is an actor. You’re supposed to play different people.

A piece of art set to cover a huge section of the iconic Printworks building has been unveiled as the £22m redevelopment of the building steams ahead. The work, by Manchester based artist Alex Sylt, was unveiled by Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, at an event this morning (March 11) with the aim of being in place later this year.

Keira Knightley said she felt “caged,” “constrained” and “very stuck” after being in blockbuster film series Pirates Of The Caribbean. The 37-year-old British actress, who has been twice nominated for Oscars, starred in the first film Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl in 2003 – alongside Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom – as Elizabeth Swann, along with three sequels.

Today is the last day you can spend the Bank of England's old paper £20 and £50 notes before they stop being legal tender.

It will take some time before the monarch on British currency changes over.

Paper bank notes are being phased out and replaced, and Brits have just two more weeks to spend their old £20 and £50 notes.

Brits only have one month left to use their 'old' £20 and £50 bank notes.

What a weekend it's been. Manchester’s annual Pride celebration has certainly been one from the books - and it isn’t even quite wrapped up yet.

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The Bank of England has issued a fresh warning over £20 and £50 notes which are currently in circulation. An estimated 163 million £50 notes and some 314 million £20 notes are still in people's purses and wallets, but soon they will no longer be accepted as a form of payment.

A pub just miles south of Manchester was once a place where criminals on death row would go to eat their last meal. According to the landlord of the Dun Cow, in Knutsford, the pub has a colourful history, being one of the only stop off points between Macclesfield and Knutsford for those due to be hanged.

An evolving journey. Throughout the years, Stranger Things has created a space for Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) to explore his identity — a topic that has caught the attention of fans and cast members alike.

Stranger Things stars Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown have broken their silence on Will’s sexuality.In light of several plotlines in season four of the Netflix show, including Schnapp’s character Will giving a presentation about the gay mathematician Alan Turing and later a line suggesting he might be struggling to come out, fans have begun to speculate.“Sometimes I think it’s just scary to open up like that, to say how you really feel, especially to people you care about the most,” Will tells his friend Mike in episode five, adding: “because what if they don’t like the truth?”“I feel like they never really address it or blatantly say how Will is,” Schnapp has now said in a recent interview with Variety.“I think that’s the beauty of it, that it’s just up to the audience’s interpretation, if it’s Will kind of just refusing to grow up and growing up slower than his friends, or if he is really gay.”Brown then added: “Can I just say, it’s 2022 and we don’t have to label things. I think what’s really nice about Will’s character is that he’s just a human being going through his own personal demons and issues.“So many kids out there don’t know, and that’s OK.