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Two-year-old James was tortured and murdered by Jon Venables and his accomplice Robert Thompson at a shopping centre near Liverpool in 1993.

Tony Blair had middle-class Mondeo Man in 1997 and Boris Johnson needed older, working-class Workington Man to topple Labour's Red Wall in 2019.

John Healey has come under mounting pressure not to clobber businesses with more tax hikes and business costs that have pushed up prices, as he prepares to unveil his first Budget in 17 days' time.

For decades, a grey slate plaque was fixed to the wall of a special hostel for the parents of sick children marking the fact that Ferguson had opened the 'Home from Home' in 1990.

The commander who led the land operation to liberate the Falklands has triggered a furore by saying that boats carrying migrants across the Channel should be machine-gunned.

Footage recorded by stunned parkgoers shows the victim, who has not been identified, entering the caged area at Yorkshire Wildlife Park this afternoon.

"Nicolas Cage is speaking out against Amazon," reports Variety. Amazon developed the series Spider-Noir for Prime Video, but then allegedly asked Cage to sign an AI waiver: "Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI," Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. "I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it's like, connect those dots! I'm not a member of their club. I didn't sign the waiver to let him use AI on 'Spider-Noir.' I'm probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that's okay." Last month Amazon canceled Spider-Man Noir after just one season, Variety reports. And the cancellation was just days before the Emmy Awards, where it then earned 11 nominations (the most of any Prime Video program this year). ScreenRant reports: Spider-Noir was the actor's first TV role and was praised globally, with season 1 earning a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating from critics of 92% and a 90% rating from audiences. Critics stated that "This sharply written homage to classic film noir — which includes a standout Nicolas Cage performance — is the novel superhero project fans need," and "Spider-Noir is one of the standout shows of the year...." The cancellation was certainly a huge shock as it had earned 11 Emmy nominations and reached 2.6 billion minutes viewed within its first six weeks on Prime Video. More from Variety: Cage went on to tell the Comic-Con audience that he hopes to work with the rising class of Gen-Z filmmakers, praising Backrooms director Kane Parsons, who parlayed his YouTube fame into a Hollywood career... "I got to get with these young directors who are Gen Z, and they're going at it their own way, whether it's through the YouTube culture or whatever it is," Cage said. "They're doing it from scratch and by hand. I want to get with that."

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The initiative forms part of a series of events to mark Black History month. It will involve children aged five to 12 taking part in a 'fun and educational' baking session at Morden Hall Park in south London.

Having seen two executions at close quarters, I can advise you quite strongly not to watch the planned shooting in Texas of the mass killer Nidal Hasan by a live-streamed firing squad.

The panic flight of the US Air Force from Fairford has ended an awkward partnership begun when we were bankrupt and alone in 1940.

Pike's attorneys said in a statement on Saturday that she has been discharged and returned to a prison where she had served time for over 30 years.

The blog It's FOSS reports: You already know that Canonical has been selectively replacing Ubuntu's C-based system components with Rust-written equivalents that don't compromise in terms of functionality, most of the time. Now it looks like the distro's OpenPGP implementation is next, with Sequoia PGP coming preinstalled in Ubuntu 26.10. Canonical wants it to eventually replace GnuPG [the dominant Linux implementation of PGP, written in C] as the default toolchain, though that switch has not happened yet... [The Ubuntu 26.10 release notes say Sequoia PGP's default status will be a future goal...] [Sequoia PGP] was started in 2017 by three former GnuPG developers who chose to build a new OpenPGP implementation in Rust rather than keep evolving GnuPG's existing codebase. Sequoia PGP is designed as a library that other software can use directly, rather than a standalone command-line tool. sq sits on top of that for encryption, decryption, signing, and key management, and sqv handles signature verification, filling in for gpg and gpgv in GnuPG. Sequoia also implements RFC 9580, the 2024 revision of the OpenPGP standard, whereas GnuPG has continued from the RFC 4880 branch, pursuing its own newer extensions and the LibrePGP specification rather than adopting RFC 9580 as its primary standard. From the It's FOSS Weekly newsletter, which also notes that the founder of the It's FOSS blog has also created a Linux-themed game called TUXDLE — a variation on Wordle where all the answers are Linux terms.

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The model died of a suspected overdose after going into cardiac arrest on September 20 while staying at a Santa Monica rehab facility called Resolutions Living.

Although his lung cancer is now in remission, the healing process has seen him scrap or postpone several concerts over the course of this year.

Strictly Come Dancing's Motsi Mabuse seemingly hit back at rumours of tensions between herself and Josh Widdicombe on Saturday as she made a cheeky remark.

Kieran James Lerwill, 28, was riding his motorbike near South Molton, in Devon, at 4.55pm on Sunday, October 4 when he was involved in the collision.

His enthusiasm, however, was not shared by everyone in attendance, with the 42-year-old greeted by boos from fans in the crowd when he appeared on the stadium's big screen.

Sara Sharif's paternal grandfather Muhammed Sharif has been awarded guardianship of her five siblings by a court in Pakistan, following years of legal wrangling.

The actress, 37, cut an elegant figure at The Liberation gala screening at the British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival at Vue West End on Saturday night.

While the signs of IBS and bowel cancer can be similar, doctors say there are key differences that too few know about.