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Line of Duty star Vicky McClure is bringing her daytime clubbing extravaganza back to Scotland. Vicky, husband Jonny Owen and Reverend and the Makers' Jon McLure created the disco event with a difference - Day Fever - earlier this year and the trio were left blown away by the response across the country.

Rai Adapting Mario Tobino‘s Tuscan World War Two Novel

Johnny Depp impersonator scams, according to a new report.Technology website Gizmodo submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for all complaints received about scammers posing as the actor over the past year and found that 197 complaints had been received in all.The victims of these scams were often first targeted on social media platforms like Facebook, before scammers moved the conversation to messaging apps including WhatsApp, Telegram and Zangi. Money was exchanged through Coinbase, Bitcoin, Zelle, PayPal and gift cards.According to a report from McAfee (via Gizmodo), Depp is often used in scams, and is one of the ten most popular celebrities to be used in scam deepfake videos.

Campaigners for and against a Galloway National Park have unsurprisingly reacted rather differently to plans to push for a vote on the matter.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Pulsar Contenthas nabbed worldwide sales on “Two Women,” a Canadian sexy comedy which is slated to world premiere at Sundance. Directed by Chloé Robichaud, “Two Women” is written by critically acclaimed playwright Catherine Léger based on her own play, “Home Deliveries,” which is itself a modern adaptation of Claude Fournier’s 1970 comedy “Two Women In Gold.” “Two Women” follows neighbors Violette and Florence who are haunted by a sense of failure despite having successful careers and families. “What if happiness lies in rebelling against a rigid performance-driven society by sometimes choosing short-term satisfaction over success, freedom over being good? In a world where having fun is nowhere near the top of the priority list, having an adventure with the delivery guy can become revolutionary.

Manchester Council spends more money on Christmas lights than anywhere else in England, new data suggests. The town hall's budget for Christmas lights and other decorations is around £250,000 this year, according to the figures.

Is it better to live safely within the suppression of an unjust system or to risk your life for the chance of freedom? This is the question posed in Amir Zargara’s Oscar-qualifying short A Good Day Will Come.  Written and directed by Zargara, the short follows Arash (Sia Alipour), a young athlete on the cusp of professional wrestling stardom. He lives with his mother and younger brother while he trains for larger competitions at the gym under the guidance of his seasoned coach. However, when the turmoil within his country can no longer be ignored, he is forced to ask himself if he will use his platform to speak for justice or cope with the plights of his people in silence. 

MAD Solutions — who left his native Syria for Cairo before the civil war — struck a more cautious note. “For me, the basic question in these matters is always: ‘Who owns the weapons?’ Because the weapons are not free. So someone is behind it [Assad’s ouster],” he noted, citing the changing geopolitical scenario which saw Assad flee to Russia when he was no longer able to rely on political support from Iran, Russia and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia.

For composer Bryce Dessner, working on a film like Sing Sing was all about defying expectations in the score. Though the film takes place in a prison, the story itself avoids the usual stereotypes of violence to focus on a tale of rehabilitation. Dessner decided to focus on a sense of freedom for the score, even using opera as a jumping off point.

More than 300 council homes in Ayrshire have lain empty for more than six months.

In Dovecote, an atmospheric drama short film by Italian filmmaker and artesian Marco Perego, the camera fixates on society’s often unseen citizens: the women confined to a seaside prison in Venice. Filmed inside Giudecca’s working women’s prison on an island in the Venetian lagoon, the story centers around a woman (Zoe Saldaña) during her final moments before being released. The film was chosen at the 60th Venice Biennale as part of the Vatican Pavilion.

A monster who gouged his ex-girlfriend's eyes out with his bare hands has been transferred to a "cushy" open prison.

Maura Higgins was less than pleased with her campmate Barry McGuigan when he disclosed her post-jungle antics on the I'm A Celebrity spin-off show, Unpacked.

Siddhant Adlakha “Bauryna Salu” is a rare, naturalistic gem that one can experience in two wildly different modes. The first involves going in completely cold — no pun intended — and observing the understated drama of its frigid, nomadic setting.

Ellise Shafer When Sky Ferreira was first approached to write a song for “Babygirl,” A24’s new erotic thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, she was taken by surprise. “I was like, ‘Is this actually happening? When’s the other shoe going to drop?'” Ferreira tells Variety over Zoom with a nervous chuckle. “Just because for this kind of film, they could probably get anyone right now.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker Lina Soualem, whose documentary “Bye Bye Tiberias,” featuring her mother Hiam Abbas (“Succession”), launched positively from Venice and Toronto, is set to make her feature film debut with “Alicante,” a drama starring her sister Mouna Soualem (“Oussekine”) as a young woman on an existential journey that takes her to Spain. After exploring her Algerian grandparents’ break-up in the doc “Their Algeria” and delving into how Hiam Abbas and her family were displaced from the city of Tiberias by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war in “Bye Bye Tiberias,” Soualem will now be putting a somewhat lighter tale on screen, albeit one that continues her exploration of “questions of belonging and transmission and exiles between generations” and “finding your place in the world,” as she puts it.

Cash-strapped Glasgow Council has shelled out over £6m in golden goodbye payments for staff while slashing services. The sum is the largest amount in ten years and works out at an equivalent of £62,284 per person.

Old taxis pumping out too much pollution will soon be banned from the streets of Greater Manchester - but the councils can't force this on every cabby.

Mick Kennedy admits his East Kilbride side will have to hit a higher level than they did in the cup shock against Ayr United if they are to add Falkirk to their list of scalps this season.

months after the court overturned his death sentence.The rapper was arrested in October 2022 after backing demonstrations that broke out in the wake of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, which occurred under suspicious circumstances while in police custody.Toomaj Salehi was also known for using his songs to criticise Iran’s leaders for their crackdowns on protests. He was sentenced to death in April on the capital offence of “corruption on earth” after making statements in support of anti-government protests in 2022.Now, in an Instagram post shared earlier today (December 2), Salehi announced on social media that he has been freed from prison.

. Sunday's new moon is the perfect moment to set your intentions and plans for growth, opportunity and going beyond your known universe. Change your approach if the one you’ve been using isn’t getting the results you’d hoped for.