Ricky Gervais wants celebs banned from New Year Honours so NHS heroes get gongs

Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" an invasive species in the hopes of culling the growing numbers. The drug lord, who was shot in December 1993, had four hippos imported to his Hacienda Napoles estate in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia.

"His children had indeed become addicted to social networks and other applications, in particular since the confinement imposed due to the epidemic of Covid-19," ANFR explained in their report."After consulting forums on the internet, the father decided that a jammer was the best solution to put an end to these excesses!" He bought the 'jammer' kit online after looking at an Internet forum, but got a bit more than he bargained for. French police have since seized the device and are reportedly investigating the offence.

Leeds fan delivered a savage message to Cristiano Ronaldo before their match with Manchester United.The cheeky supporter was spotted holding up a homemade cardboard sign asking for Ronaldo's attention.But unlike most boys and girls of that age, the fan didn't want the Portuguese's forward's shirt; oh no.He wanted CR7 to ask Raphinha for his shirt instead, in what must have come as a savage blow for the United star's ego.The sign read: "Cristiano can you ask Raphinha to give me his shirt please."Football fans on Twitter loved the cheeky chappy Leeds fan and replied underneath applauding his audacity.One person wrote: "Kid's a legend!"Someone else said: "Class this is."A third person commented: "This kid is going places."While another user chimed in with: "This is the type of s***housing I'm here for. The future is in good hands.

Ralf Rangnick and strengthened United's grip of fourth place in the Premier League table. But Schmeichel insists the win proves nothing and that his former club still have a lot of work to do before people can consider them to be a genuine force in English football again.

Asda.The supermarket is flogging a range of homeware based on the popular Disney film and book series.Prices start from just £4 making the collection ideal for budget-conscious shoppers. The homeware was shared to the popular Facebook group Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK where Brits went wild for the pretty collection.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Kazakh filmmaker Askar Uzabayev’s domestic violence drama “Happiness” snagged the Audience Award in the Berlin Film Festival’s prestigious Panorama sidebar, a good sign of its potential appeal in cinemas and festivals worldwide. Whether it will secure distribution in its native Kazakhstan is another matter, however.Based on actual events, “Happiness” centers on a lovely influencer who promotes a product line called Happiness, which she pitches as a surefire path to happiness, beauty and success.But her home life reflects the opposite where her abusive husband grows ever more violent.

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios has revealed a format agreement for an Italian version of Abi Morgan‘s hit show “The Split.” Locally titled “Studio Battaglia,” the screenplay has been adapted by Lisa Nur Sultan (Golden Globe winner for “On My Skin”) and is directed by Simone Spada (“Hotel Gagarin”). The Italian cast includes Barbora Bobulova, (“Sacred Heart”), Miriam Dalmazio (“Anna”), Marina Occhionero (“Monterossi”), Lunetta Savino (“Saturn in Opposition”), Massimo Ghini (“The New Pope”) Thomas Trabacchi (“Nico, 1988”) and Giorgio Marchesi (“Medici”) .Originally produced by “Chernobyl” maker Sister in association with Little Chick, the six-part Italian series is produced by Palomar with Tempesta Film in collaboration with Rai Fiction.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorDaniel Baur’s K5 Film and K5 International are re-teaming with writer/director Mukunda Michael Dewil for the time-loop thriller “Open House.” The script was written and developed by Jon Davis and Sergio Pinheiro.Dewil and Baur, who will produce the movie, already worked together on the action thriller “Vehicle 19,” starring the late Paul Walker, and the psychological thriller “The Immaculate Room,” starring Emile Hirsch, Kate Bosworth and Ashley Greene Khoury, which won best picture and best male actor at the Mammoth Film Festival recently.Dewil’s most recent movie project is thriller “Collide,” starring Ryan Phillippe, Kat Graham and Jim Gaffigan, which recently wrapped production. Baur is an exec producer on the movie.

Cillian Murphy has spoken on his preparation for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, noting the similarities to his role of Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders.The actor will take on the role of the American theoretical physicist, whose work on the Manhattan Project led to the moniker the “father of the atomic bomb”, in Nolan’s new film.Ahead of its release next year, Murphy has opened up a bit about his work on the character, revealing in a new interview with The Observer that he has been doing “an awful lot of reading”.“I’m interested in the man and what [inventing the atomic bomb] does to the individual,” he said. “The mechanics of it, that’s not really for me – I don’t have the intellectual capability to understand them, but these contradictory characters are fascinating.”Comparing Oppenheimer to the paradoxical nature of Shelby, he went on to explain: “Tommy Shelby’s a complete contradiction, too.

Amazon Game Studios has said that server transfers in Lost Ark are “not a viable option at this point,” following many requests for the feature since launch.Yesterday (February 20), Amazon Game Studios posted an update that addressed many of the community’s biggest issues with Lost Ark, and said it is working with developer Smilegate to get them fixed.One of these issues is the topic of server transfers, which fans feel would go a long way toward reducing queue times and re-uniting friends who were seperated by character creation restrictions.However, although Amazon Game Studios said it “thoroughly investigated” the option, the studio reached the conclusion that “this instant functionality does not currently exist in Lost Ark“.Amazon added that although the feature recently arrived in Korea, it’s a weekly batch process that requires downtime to run – “therefore, unfortunately, [server transfers are] not a viable option at this point for the western version.”On the topic of long queue times in Europe, Amazon said that “there is no way to increase the number of players per world in Europe Central,” and “adding more servers is not possible based on the complexity of all the systems that need to work together.”The post does note that it has recently launched a new region in Europe to help alleviate demand.Elsewhere, the update addresses issues with matchmaking, gold seller spam, a fix for missing Crystalline Auras, and improved fraud protection.Following a hugely popular launch, Lost Ark has been the recipient of review bombing over issues with the European servers and problems with Founder’s Pack players not getting to play with their free-to-play friends.Last week, an update to the MMO added a new EU region and fixed a

Horizon Forbidden West was the number one game in the UK boxed charts, according to GfK sales figures.As tracked by Gamesindustry.biz, sales figures found that Horizon Forbidden West was “comfortably” the biggest game of the week. It was also the second biggest PS5 launch so far, behind Spider-Man: Miles Morales which came out the same day as the console.

One of Scotland's most popular comedic duos is following the hugely successful launch of their first-ever whisky with a move into clear spirits.

Top referee Dermot Gallagher believes Rangers were denied a stonewaller against Dundee United and reckons the hosts should have finished the game with 10 men.

A third of students have considered dropping out due to financial difficulties as they are “pushed into poverty” to complete their studies, a shock report has found.

A serious crash has taken place on one of Scotland's busiest roads this morning.

A woman has sparked a heated debate online after refusing to take her terminally ill sister's children when she dies - despite her desperate pleas.

Fearne Cotton recently interviewed Ricky Gervais for her mental health-themed podcast, Happy Place. The conversation was going well enough, until Cotton mentioned that she was recording under her duvet. Gervais remarked it must be “very comfortable” to be in bed. “It’s not at all, actually,” Cotton replied. “But hey, weird times.”

Fearne Cotton recently interviewed Ricky Gervais for her mental health-themed podcast, Happy Place. The conversation was going well enough, until Cotton mentioned that she was recording under her duvet. Gervais remarked it must be “very comfortable” to be in bed. “It’s not at all, actually,” Cotton replied. “But hey, weird times.”

Ricky Gervais has hailed "lioness" mums who never stop grafting even when their husbands clock off.

"Give it to someone who gave a kidney to a stranger, not someone who invented a new type of mascara"

Ricky Gervais has called for celebs to be banned from the New Years Honours lists and replaced with NHS staff who are currently on the frontline of the UK's coronavirus battle.