Precinct: Last News

For years Robert Hamilton struggled to get his daughter to school, out of the house, or even out of her bedroom. Libby had struggled with education from her time in pre-school.

A teenager was warned by a crown court judge that he faces a likely prison sentence after a man was stabbed in the neck at a shopping precinct.

Local residents in Chorlton have had their say on the 'ambitious' plans to bulldoze its 1970s shopping centre to pave the way for a new 'thriving retail hub'.

Police have released CCTV pictures of a male they want to talk to after a burglary at the Salford Precinct.

Police powers have been stepped up in Salford after a man was attacked in an alleyway near a shopping centre.

Crowds "clapped and cheered" as the life of an unloved shopping precinct came to a dramatic end.

A repeat Lanarkshire knife offender has been warned he is "perilously close" to getting a jail sentence.

'Once in a generation' plans were recently submitted to completely redevelop Wythenshawe Civic Centre.

Traffic is set to be completely blocked from a pedestrian shopping precinct after years of problems with illegal parking and accidents.

J. Kim Murphy Austin Stoker, a veteran actor who most notably starred in John Carpenter’s sophomore feature “Assault on Precinct 13” and co-starred with Pam Grier in the 1975 blaxploitation feature “Sheba, Baby,” died Friday of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 92. Details regarding Stoker’s death were shared by his wife of 43 years, Robin Stoker, on her personal Facebook Monday evening. Robin called Austin “the love of my life” in her tribute. In another tribute, actor and director Bill Duke hailed Stoker as “one of Hollywood’s unsung actors” and shared his blessings to his family.

Austin Stoker, the Trinidadian-American actor from Assault on Precinct 13 and Roots, has died. His wife Robin Stoker confirmed the actor’s death happened on Friday, October 7, his 92nd birthday.

Horrific imagery showing a man injured and covered in blood has circulated social media.

A private firm has said customers of an East Kilbride shopping precinct won't be hit in the pocket after signs appeared displaying parking fees.

It was a moment in time when Salford's shopping centre was the biggest social club in the city. Friends and neighbours would cluster to chat, gossip, and have a bite sat on a bench.

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaGroundbreaking works by John Carpenter, Mira Nair, Melvin Van Peebles, Nina Menkes and Michael Powell will be featured in the Revivals lineup of the 59th New York Film Festival.

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Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticSlick, unsettling Danish law-enforcement thriller “Shorta” — or as it’s been generically retitled in the United States, “Enforcement” — opens with a familiar “I can’t breathe” moment as a team of police scramble to restrain a 19-year-old Muslim man, suggesting that what happened to Eric Garner in Staten Island, and to George Floyd in Minneapolis, is hardly an America-specific problem. Like those men, Talib Ben Hassi dies from complications of the police chokehold, and as in those cases, the community rises up against the establishment that was sworn to protect it.In other words, “Shorta” begins where films such as “Do the Right Thing” and “Les Misérables” abruptly stopped.