Man who died after double dog attack in Staffordshire named as Ian Price | UK news
UK news This article is more than 4 months oldMan who died after double dog attack in Staffordshire named as Ian PriceThis article is more than 4 months oldPolice arrest 30-year-old after Price attacked by dogs believed to be XL bullies
A 52-year-old man who died after being attacked by two dogs believed to be American XL bullies near a school in Staffordshire has been named.
Ian Price was mauled to death by the two animals in the village of Stonnall on Thursday afternoon.
Manchester United 1-2 Liverpool: Womens Super League as it happened | Women's Super League
17 Dec 202309.36 ESTManchester United 1-2 LiverpoolLiverpool fought back from conceding an early goal to earn a surprise win over Manchester United, the women’s side’s first-ever win over their rivals. Ella Toone slotted home in just the third minute, before Melvine Malard fired into the side netting with the goal at her mercy moments later.
The hosts were punished for not taking more of their chances in the 33rd minute, as Melissa Lawley’s fine cross from the right was headed into her own goal by Millie Turner, under pressure from Emma Koivisto.
The 20 best bathtub scenes ranked | Saltburn
‘Say hello to my rubber duck!’ … Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface. Photograph: Universal/Sidney Ray Baldwin/AllstarAt the Golden Globes last Sunday, candles were passed around reportedly smelling like Jacob Elordi’s bathwater in the now-notorious scene from Saltburn. But how does that sequence compare with the splashy competition?
by Anne Billson20. Goldfinger (1964)In the best of the James Bond pre-credit sequences, Sean Connery snogs an exotic dancer who has just climbed naked out of her bath, spots a sneaky assailant reflected in her eyes, and throws both assailant and an electric heater into the tub with the quip: “Shocking, positively shocking!
Top 10 books about the Scottish Highlands and Islands
The lakes of Lochan na h-Achlaise on the vast peat bogs of Rannoch Moor in the remote West Highlands of Scotland. Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoThe lakes of Lochan na h-Achlaise on the vast peat bogs of Rannoch Moor in the remote West Highlands of Scotland. Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoTop 10sScotlandRemote yet magnetic, the rugged environments of Scotland’s north have been inspiring writing for centuries, whether in memoir, natural history or tales of alien hitchhikers.
Author Douglas Stuart on Glasgows doocot culture | Culture
Hidden HistoriesCultureAuthor Douglas Stuart on Glasgow’s ‘doocot’ culture The Booker winner on the DIY pigeon lofts that gave the inhabitants of Glasgow’s estates something to call their own
I grew up in the east end of Glasgow and most working-class Glaswegians have seen a doocot. My family moved often, and we lived in a variety of council housing: from the modernist, brutalist, high-rise towers of Sighthill, to the pre-sandblasted, soot-soaked tenements.
Boxing week, that blissful period when nothing happens, is the real gift of Christmas | Jessica Furs
OpinionChristmasBoxing week, that blissful period when nothing happens, is the real gift of ChristmasJessica FursethTwixmas, Chrimbo limbo or, in Norway, romjul (space Christmas): call it what you will, I’ll be mainly chilling
Maybe it starts the moment you hear Wham!’s Last Christmas in the shops, or perhaps it’s the day you put up your tree. For me, Christmas starts in earnest on Boxing Day. Specifically, around the time when I’m digging through a fridge stuffed with leftovers to make myself a lunch plate, which I’ll eat in front of the TV – me under a blanket, the plate balanced on my chest – with a box of Cadbury’s Roses within easy reach.
Family of Exeter man who died in police custody in 2012 hope for answers | Deaths in custody
Deaths in custody This article is more than 2 months oldFamily of Exeter man who died in police custody in 2012 hope for answersThis article is more than 2 months oldInquest begins for Thomas Orchard, who died a week after officers placed a restraint belt around his face
The family of a vulnerable man who collapsed while in police custody after a heavy webbing belt was placed around his face say they hope their questions about his death will finally be answered at his inquest after 11 “tortuous” years.
John Louis Mansi obituary | TV comedy
TV comedyObituaryJohn Louis Mansi obituaryBlundering Gestapo agent in 'Allo 'AlloSlight of build, with bushy dark hair, large eyes and a heavy jowl, the character actor John Louis Mansi, who has died aged 83, had an apprehensive facial expression that could be transformed by an eager grin. Following years of peripheral roles – typically as waiters and gangsters – he reached a wide audience as an eccentric Gestapo agent in the BBC's second world war sitcom 'Allo 'Allo, which ran from 1982 to 1992.
Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Jason Momoa two years after their split | Culture
Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet at the premiere of Aquaman, in Los Angeles, California, on 12 December 2018. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/APJason Momoa and Lisa Bonet at the premiere of Aquaman, in Los Angeles, California, on 12 December 2018. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/APCultureLisa Bonet files for divorce from Jason Momoa two years after their splitThe Cosby Show star cited irreconcilable differences with the Aquaman actor, who she met in 2005
Lisa Bonet has filed for divorce from Jason Momoa 18 years after the two actors became a couple.
Meet the neuroscientist shattering the myth of the gendered brain
The ObserverNeuroscienceWhy asking whether your brain is male or female is the wrong question
You receive an invitation, emblazoned with a question: “A bouncing little ‘he’ or a pretty little ‘she’?” The question is your teaser for the “gender reveal party” to which you are being invited by an expectant mother who, at more than 20 weeks into her pregnancy, knows what you don’t: the sex of her child. After you arrive, explains cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon in her riveting new book, The Gendered Brain, the big reveal will be hidden within some novelty item, such as a white iced cake, and will be colour-coded.