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Studios behind Harry Potter films to undergo 400,000 sq ft expansion by 2027, in boost to struggling industryThe Warner Bros studios behind the Harry Potter film series are to undergo a major expansion, creating 4,000 jobs and providing a boost to Br...
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From Sarah Bernstein’s absurdist novel to Jonathan Escoffery’s astonishingly assured debut, this year’s novels offered a full range of lived experience and made for an exciting shortlist• Just one British writer makes the Booker prize shortlistAny co...
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‘In [a] polarised world, it is important our sector is clear in its opposition to censorship’ says the Cilip report, published as services increasingly asked to remove booksNew guidelines designed for libraries in the UK urge staff to provide materia...
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The actor can now send an injunction if his image or voice is used in gifs and deepfakes as well as for unauthorised merchandiseThe Indian actor Anil Kapoor has won a significant victory in a New Delhi court over unauthorised AI use of his likeness.K...
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Exhibits in Bishop Auckland range from immersive work featuring burning iris, to Binchester ring and Bodleian bowlEarly visitors to a dramatic, immersive work by Mat Collishaw have talked of it prompting emotional and cathartic responses – which is m...
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Documentarian Dawn Porter’s expansive new series Deadlocked looks back at the history of an institution that has shaped the US for better and, more recently, worseWhen Dawn Porter studied law at Georgetown University in Washington, she would pass the...
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Sketch showing different view of cottage that features in The Hay Wain bought in Guernsey for almost double guide priceA “lost” painting by John Constable found hanging on the wall of a terrace house in Guernsey showing a different view of a farm cot...
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As his debut Maxinquaye gets reissued, the Bristolian music legend answers your questions on Beyoncé, Bob Marley and annoying Gary Oldman with a TwixYou have previously asserted that Maxinquaye was ruined by its success and turned into a “coffee-tabl...
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Ahead of her 88th birthday, we look back at the actor’s best roles, from a down-on-her-luck dame to everyones favourite umbrella-flying nannyNot every moment of Andrews’ career has been brilliant. Ronald Harwood co-wrote this hypnotically shoddy romc...
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Platform says it is ‘inappropriate and dangerous’ for parliament to ‘attempt to control’ who makes money from contentRumble, a video-sharing platform used by Russell Brand, has accused a parliamentary committee of “deeply inappropriate” behaviour aft...
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As the show returns, bakers, judges and the creators of the smash hit take us behind the scenes – from the chaos of the early days to its place at TV’s top tableSoggy bottoms! Paul Hollywood’s eyes! The controversial move to Channel 4! For years, The...
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French and German politicians are in a standoff over a quota designed to boost European productionsBrussels must not “shut the door” on British film and television, MEPs have said, as the European Commission mulls excluding the UK from a quota system...
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Young women who challenged the swirling misogyny were bullied and harassed – it’s high time we listened to the victims of that era“A sad little hello to women in their 30s having an evening of shit Proustian flashbacks to the mid-2000s,” the historia...
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A charismatic young tutor comes to help a tragedy-stuck family in a bookish drama that’s fun and smart, but not entirely convincingHere is a brittle and contrived but rather elegant Brit thriller about literary paranoia from debut feature screenwrite...
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Inside the former Wismut mining company in Germany are thousands of artworks, painted while the company secretly mined uranium for Soviet atomic bombs Continue reading...