'Do Not Approach' Warning Issued After Inmate Climbs Fence At Derbyshire Prison And Escapes
Ethan Black has been in prison since 2006 and is serving an indeterminate sentence
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Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
Chase Infiniti: ‘My parents freaked out more than me when I said I was acting opposite Leonardo DiCaprio’
The breakout star of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (the Guardian’s No 1 film of 2025) on learning karate, her love of car chases – and how she got her name You could hardly ask for a better movie debut than Chase Infiniti’s in One Battle After Another, even if the 24-year-old acto...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
Stranded review – this Italian crime show is like Agatha Christie, Lost and The White Lotus all at once
A hotel’s worth of rich guests cut off by snow, a dead body, the mafia and some supernatural antics … there’s a banquet of melodrama to feast on in this soapy foreign-language seriesThe snow is crisp and even, up in the Italian Alps: how lucky the protagonists in the new Walter Presents series Stran...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
Best films of 2025 in the UK: No 1 – One Battle After Another
Leonardo DiCaprio is a former revolutionary searching for his daughter in Paul Thomas Anderson’s exhilaratingly audacious counterculture epic• The best films of 2025 in the UK• More on the best culture of 2025Paul Thomas Anderson’s countercultural drama-thriller One Battle After Another, inspired by...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
The 50 best films of 2025 in the UK
Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema• Read the US version of this list• More on the best culture of 2025*** Continue reading...
Focus / Culture - 20 hours ago
Making Mary Poppins by Todd James Pierce review – the musical brothers behind the movie magic
Bob and Dick Sherman take centre stage in this well-researched account of how Walt Disney created a classicLike many kids of the VHS generation, I must have watched my taped-off-the-telly copy of Disney’s Mary Poppins (1964) well over 100 times. I probably knew every frame as well as Walt Disney him...
Focus / Culture - 21 hours ago
TV tonight: on the hunt for the gangs stealing Britain’s parcels
Dispatches investigates this growing crimewave. Plus: it’s getting very hot in the kitchen for the MasterChef final. Here’s what to watch this evening8pm, Channel 4 There are some real grinches out there: a parcel is stolen in Britain every seven seconds. Reporter Tir Dhondy is on a mission to get t...
Focus / Culture - 21 hours ago
The 20 best video games of 2025
A family classic reborn in a wide open world, a satirical adventure through teenage life and a mystery puzzler for the ages – our critics on the year’s best fun• More on the best culture of 2025Ivy Road/Annapurna Interactive; PC, PS5, XboxAn arena warrior on a losing streak takes refuge in a vast fo...
Focus / Culture - 21 hours ago
‘I had to plunge the knife into the canvas’: Edita Schubert wielded her scalpel like other artists wield a brush
In her day job, the ‘first lady of Croatian avant garde’ sliced up cadavers at Zagreb’s anatomical institute. In her studio, she used the same medical instruments to make art that surprises to this dayEdita Schubert lived a double life. For more than three decades, the late Croatian artist worked at...
Derbyshire council apologises after automated phoneline causes distress for families affected by care home closures
Derbyshire County Council has announced it is closing eight care homes
New jobs boost as Derby leader sets out £26 million spending plans
'No redundancies, more jobs', says Councillor Nadine Peatfield
Oh, Mary! review – US history lewdly revised as American Pie-grade comedy
Trafalgar theatre, London Arriving from Broadway with much fanfare, Cole Escola’s play about Mary Todd Lincoln is loaded with obvious jokes and squanders the talents of its cast Oh, my! Mary Todd Lincoln is a drunken wannabe cabaret star! Her husband Abraham, the 16th US president, is a closet homos...
Fears new Derby football facilities are 'too late' to save grassroots club
Planning permission has 'finally' been approved - but the 11 months wait has taken a toll
Darley Abbey footbridge to be closed 'over the holiday period and beyond'
Business owners aired their concerns earlier this week, fearing the effect that another closure could have
Elvaston Castle sale unsuccessful but talks under way to 'restore it for all'
Derbyshire County Council has been marketing the Elvaston Castle estate for sale since March but it has been unsuccessful and talks over its future have now restarted at square one