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A new welcome wall has been officially unveiled in Newmains, offering a warm greeting to visitors and celebrating the village’s heritage.

Ian Murray has said his late dad would be “incredibly proud” of him becoming the first Labour Scottish Secretary in fourteen years.

Editor’s note: Underplayed in the media intrigue over the prospect of Warner Bros swallowing Shari Redstone’s empire that includes Paramount and CBS is the gloomy reality that another storied Hollywood studio could go the way of Fox. That went from a vibrant multi-faceted creative content-generating enterprise to a headstone, when Rupert Murdoch decided to cash out for Disney stock. David Zaslav spent 2023 kicking employees and finished films to the curb to pay down debt just to get this far; chances are more blood will spill down Melrose if Redstone sells some or all the pieces of Paramount to be mashed into an existing studio. When Bill Mechanic was perched atop Paramount, Disney and Fox, he built Disney’s home video from a $30 million to $3 billion business, and found ways to take risks and squeeze max returns from blockbusters from Braveheart to Titanic, Independence Day and many others. Who better to remind Hollywood that once a major studio dies, it never comes back, and that there might be better ways to squeeze better performance out of an established creative business with global pipelines?

James Murray, who announced his retirement from atop the Secret Service this week, will join Snap later this summer as chief security officer, the social media platform confirmed Thursday.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJames Murray is retiring as director of the U.S. Secret Service after a 27-year career with the agency to take a position with Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, as chief security officer.Murray will join Snap after his term with the Secret Service ends July 30, 2022. He will report directly to CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel.“We’re thrilled to welcome Jim Murray to Snap and look forward to him joining our team on August 1,” a Snap rep said in an emailed statement to Variety.

A coroner slammed the 'suboptimal' care that a resident of a probation hostel received prior to his death. Craig Akhtar Bissa, 27, died while living at St Joseph's approved premises, in Eccles, on April 1 2019, an inquest heard.

Manchester city centre is constantly evolving.

The official opening ceremony of the River Tay salmon fishing season was held in mild conditions near Kinclaven Bridge on Saturday.