Ex-boss of Scots cold-call firm which made 1.6m nuisance calls a day banned from being director

Former world champion speed skater Elise Christie has shared how joining Only Fans helped save her life when she retired from the sport. The athlete, from Nottingham, had to work three jobs and slept in her car - a far cry from her former jet-setting lifestyle.

An Ohio woman has been sentenced to several years in prison after the death of her daughter. whose 4-year-old daughter died from diabetes-re

A dog who was seconds away from being put to sleep was saved at the eleventh hour after a vet checked her phone. The pocket bully, named Pumpkin, was heartlessly abandoned by his owner and tied to the gates of a council-run dog pound.

A kind-hearted vet has saved a dog that was about to be put down at the last minute after it was abandoned on the street by its careless owner.

INEOS are convinced Manchester United and Nice will be allowed to play in the Europa League next season.

May half term is here - and although it’s great news for the kids, it can be tricky to keep little ones entertained. Luckily, there are lots of things to do right on our doorstep.

Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil is asking prosecutors to pause their probe into SNP finances - fearing it will derail their election campaign.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Of all the films premiering at Cannes this year, “The Most Precious of Cargoes” is both an anomaly (the first animated feature to compete for the Palme d’Or since “Persepolis” in 2007) and the most likely to become a classic. Blending the heavy lines of early-20th-century woodcuts with the gentle pastels of watercolor painting, “The Artist” director Michel Hazanavicius finds a poignant way to address not only the horrors of the Holocaust, but the kinds of kindness that combatted it, crafting an indelible parable destined to be watched and shared by generations to come.

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Catherine Bray From Jekyll and Hyde to the Wolfman, to much more recent twists on atavistic transformations, the concept of shape-shifting has always been a popular one in fiction — with storytellers turning the dial up or down on the potential social commentary therein, according to taste and preference. In “Animale,” the closing film of this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week section, director Emma Benestan is rather more interested in the interpersonal dynamics navigated by 22-year-old female bull-runner Nejma (Oulaya Amamra) than in really savouring some promising horror implications. She gives Dr.

Being a star has plenty of benefits, but there are some drawbacks as well.

A Scots Dad has spoken about the heartache of losing both of his parents to cancer a few days apart.

Jamie Lang Uruguay’s José Ignacio International Film Festival (JIIFF) has launched the Pfeffer del Sur Fund, a $50,000 fund dedicated to supporting Ibero-American film projects. The Pfeffer Del Sur Fund, established by JIIFF’s primary benefactors, María and John Pfeffer, will be launched in January 2025 as part of the festival’s 15th anniversary edition. It will be awarded to one of the projects selected from the JIIFF Lab, part of the Working JIIFF industry program.

Chris Hemsworth is speaking out in response to criticism that Marvel movies have received from acclaimed directors like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

A Scots mum has been inspired to become a nurse after seeing her baby daughter bravely battle a condition where he organs 'lived outside her body'.

A press conference featuring the UK's Olly Alexander and other competing Eurovision Song Contest acts has been cancelled this evening, the European Broadcasting Union has confirmed. Olly and the other acts, who were automatic qualifiers for Saturday’s live show, were due to speak to the media ahead of the Grand Final on Saturday, but following a last minute decision by the EBU, will no longer be doing so.

Sam Claflin and Rupert Friend will star in Thunder Road Pictures’ World War II action-thriller Perdition. Written and directed by Henry Dunham, principal photography is set for the fall.

EXCLUSIVE: In a pre-emptive deal, Neon has acquired rights to Osgood Perkins’ (Longlegs) next genre movie Keeper, which will star Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) and Rossif Sutherland (Possessor).

EXCLUSIVE: British writer, director, and producer Alex Marx will make his feature debut with The Queen of Fashion, a long-gestating biopic of fashion editor, stylist, and iconoclast Isabella Blow, with Academy Award nominee Andrea Riseborough set to produce and play the lead role.

The body of a man has been discovered in the water at a harbour in Orkney.