Four men jailed for murder of Ashley Dale in Liverpool | UK news

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  693 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

UK news This article is more than 1 month oldFour men jailed for murder of Ashley Dale in LiverpoolThis article is more than 1 month oldJames Witham, 41, Joseph Peers, 29, Niall Barry, 26, and Sean Zeisz, 28, sentenced to life in prison Four men have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Ashley Dale, who was shot dead in her Liverpool home in August of last year. [Read More]

I scarred myself for life | Social care

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  813 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

ExperienceSocial careI scarred myself for lifeThe first time I cut myself, I was 16 years old and at an awkward, unattractive stage, physically and mentally. My parents reacted to my moodiness and acts of rebellion by imposing Victorian limitations on my freedom; explosive arguments occurred almost daily. I thought a girlfriend would compensate for what I felt was a lack of love at home but the object of my teenage passion was not remotely interested, and who could blame her? [Read More]

Jimmy Carr's 'offensive' dwarf joke broke broadcasting rules, says watchdog | BBC One

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  337 words  |  Aldo Pusey

BBC One This article is more than 7 years oldJimmy Carr's 'offensive' dwarf joke broke broadcasting rules, says watchdogThis article is more than 7 years oldComedian’s comments on BBC’s The One Show were ‘capable of causing considerable offence’, says Ofcom Jimmy Carr’s joke about dwarves on BBC1’s The One Show was offensive and broke broadcasting rules, the media watchdog has said. Carr, who was promoting of his greatest hits tour, told viewers he had once come up with a two-word joke. [Read More]

Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra review choose your own Chilean misadventure

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  703 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

FictionReviewThe reader constructs his or her own stories about Pinochet’s regime from this unconventional, playful, interactive text As a child I spent an enormous amount of time hunched over Fighting Fantasy books, flipping back and forth each time the text prompted me to make a decision. Will you pick up the golden key? Turn left or right in the labyrinth? I already loved reading, but how much more exciting to be directly involved in the unfolding of a story. [Read More]

My girlfriends enlarged breasts turn me on, but Im not sure what to do with them

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  266 words  |  Kary Bruening

Sexual healingSexThe results are visually spectacular, but they feel different and I’m scared of hurting her during sexMy girlfriend of six years suddenly decided to have her breasts enlarged. The results are visually spectacular and definitely turn me on, but to be honest, now I’m not quite sure what to do with them during sex. They feel different, and I know she was in pain for a while so I don’t want to hurt her. [Read More]

The thunder lizard returns - Brontosaurus resurrected | Science

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  934 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Lost WorldsScienceThe thunder lizard returns - Brontosaurus resurrectedA new analysis restores Brontosaurus to the ranks of the dinosaurs, but why? For years palaeontologists have been trying to convince the public that Brontosaurus doesn’t, and never, existed but now a new study has been published that returns this name to the ranks of the dinosaurs. So why the sudden turn around? Such a change is in fact a very normal part of the constant updates and revisions that come with the process of taxonomy (identifying and naming new species) though in this case it comes as part of a quite exceptionally detailed study. [Read More]

Top 10 books for the broken-hearted

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1332 words  |  Valentine Belue

Top 10sFictionIf Valentine’s Day is an unwelcome reminder of what has become of your love life, you can find solace at the bookshop. Here are 10 literary highlights for the lovelorn Some relationships ebb away, petering to their end. There is loneliness and ambivalence after this kind of breakup, no doubt. But there is another altogether more visceral kind – the brutal, sudden and sometimes unexpected end to love, which is experienced like a death. [Read More]

Black Superhero review original queer drama with plenty of kapow

 Posted on April 18, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  478 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

TheatreReviewRoyal Court theatre, London Part satire, part serious drama, Danny Lee Wynter’s story of gay love and acting slowly reveals its emotional powers Actor Danny Lee Wynter’s debut as a playwright concerns a tight-knit group of performers, some of whom are struggling while one has made it big. As they drink, fight, hit on each other and talk about their therapy sessions, it could spiral into navel-gazing self-indulgence, and sometimes does. [Read More]

Happy Valley recap: series 2, episode 1 scars, sheep-rustlers and a serial killer | Happy Valley

 Posted on April 18, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1680 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Happy Valley: episode-by-episodeHappy ValleyHappy Valley recap: series 2, episode 1 – scars, sheep-rustlers and a serial killerThe critics’ top drama of 2014 is back with a vengeance: the mother of last season’s villain, Tommy Lee Royce, has been found dead by none other than Sgt Catherine Cawood “Sheep-rustling?” Eighteen months after she rescued her grandson Ryan from the clutches of his biological father – the kidnapper, murderer and rapist Tommy Lee Royce – Sgt Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) is back on familiar ground. [Read More]

It hasnt delivered for them: where next for Harry and Meghan, content creators?

 Posted on April 18, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  975 words  |  Valentine Belue

Prince HarryThe Duke published a bestselling memoir and won a court battle but the couple’s media deals didn’t go as planned Walking the red carpet with Hollywood’s elite at Variety magazine’s Power of Women event in Los Angeles, the Duchess of Sussex enjoyed the social cachet the old Meghan Markle, cast member of TV series Suits, may only have dreamed of. “We have so many exciting things on the slate,” she beamed as a microphone was waved in front of her. [Read More]