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Sturgeon has said UK Government plans to exclude social care workers from a new visa system could have a “devastating” impact on the workforce.The First Minister said the decision risked sending a message that the country is not grateful for the work these staff have carried out.Foreign social care workers will be unable to apply for a special health and care visa under the UK’s new points-based immigration system.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up

Jamie Lang Julia Sawalha has shared an open letter via her social media profiles expressing disappointment and anger at being left out of Aardman Animations’ upcoming “Chicken Run” sequel, confirmed as a Netflix pickup at June’s Annecy festival. Sawalha voiced Ginger in the Oscar-nominated original, which remains the top grossing stop-motion feature ever, 20 years after its release.“To say that I am devastated and furious would be an understatement,” she said in the letter.

Brian Austin Green and Tina Louise were spotted on another outing together in Los Angeles — but this time the duo got a little handsy.The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 46, was seen walking with Louise down Melrose Avenue in L.A. on Tuesday, July 7, in photos obtained by the Daily Mail.

@thejasongoodrich.Actors and musicians are remembering Nick Cordero, the Tony-nominated Broadway actor who passed away from COVID-19 complications at 41 on July 5.After starring on stage in Rock of Ages, Bullets over Broadway, Waitress, and A Bronx Tale: The Musical, the Canadian native was known in the theater community for his leading tough guy roles.When he contracted the coronavirus in March, he was in good health.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorAmy Emmerich, chief content officer for Vice Media’s Refinery29, has exited the digital company, which has been unsettled by an investigation into its workplace culture and treatment of employees of color.In a brief memo to employees, Vice CEO Nancy Dubuc confirmed the move but did not allude to any larger context.During her five-plus-year run at the female-skewing Refinery, Dubuc wrote, “Amy has been passionately committed to building the brand and helping to shape its

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRefinery29’s Amy Emmerich is departing as global president and chief content officer of the Vice Media Group-owned women’s media brand, Variety has confirmed.Emmerich, who joined R29 in 2015 before it was acquired last year by Vice, is leaving the company less than a month after Refinery29 editor-in-chief and co-founder Christene Barberich stepped down as EIC following criticism over the staff’s lack of racial diversity and allegations of racial

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra has spent quarantine in their $20 million Los Angeles mansion. Chopra opened up to British Vogue for its August Reset issue about how that experience is going, about four months in.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterFilm and content financier BondIt Media Capital is teaming with Brian Presley’s P12 Films to back a slate of five features.The two companies said the deal would cover original stories and adapted content. P12 produced The Great Alaskan Race, which Presley directed and starred in, set in 1925 and telling the tale of a group of brave mushers who travelled 700 miles to save the small children of an Alaskan town.

Tip: For a deeper stretch, follow the steps above, but once you feel a stretch, bend your other arm, place that hand on the part of your neck where you feel the stretch, and point that elbow up.From a kneeling or standing position, make yourself as tall as possible. Think about elongating your neck.Take your right hand and wrap it around your head so that your middle finger touches your left ear; reach your left hand down towards the ground.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorAGC has closed a raft of Cannes virtual market deals on Nick Jonas-Laurence Fishburne action-thriller The Blacksmith.Sizeable pre-sales have closed in Germany & Switzerland (Constantin), France (Metropolitan), UK (Entertainment Film), Latin America (CDC & CVT), Russia (Paradise/MGN) and South Korea & Vietnam (Joy’N’Content).Pacts have also been sealed with Benelux (The Searchers), Greece (Odeon), Middle East (Salim Raima), Eastern Europe (Prorom), Asian Pay TV

Jamie Lang MGM Television’s Unscripted & Alternative and Orion Television have closed a first look deal with Tim Crescenti’s L.A.-based Small World IFT, which grants MGM exclusive first look access at all international formats sourced by the firm. Scot Cru, executive VP of global formats and unscripted content at MGM brokered the deal.Founded in 2005, Small World IFT has developed one of the industry’s strongest track records for bringing international formats into the U.S.

Justin Bieber vehemently denied recent allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2014. The 26-year-old singer spoke out Sunday after a woman, known as Danielle, accused him of misconduct on Twitter.The tweet has since been deleted.

Justin Bieber has hit back at an allegation of sexual assault recently made against him on social media.A woman named Danielle took to Twitter to described an alleged assault, claiming the incident took place on 9 March, 2014 at The Four Seasons hotel in Austin, Texas, to coincide with the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival - where the singer had made an appearance that year."My friends and I were enjoying ourselves the entire night," Danielle wrote in her since-deleted post.

Justin Bieber has refuted allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman going by the name of "Danielle" in 2014. The woman, who tweeted from an anonymous account Saturday night that was removed from Twitter shortly after Bieber publicly commented on the situation, claimed the incident took place at a hotel in Austin, Texas, on March 9, 2014.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorJustin Bieber is adamantly denying allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2014, and says he plans to take legal action.The woman, identified as Danielle, tweeted Saturday night, that the incident occurred at an Austin, Texas, hotel on March 9, 2014. The woman, who was 21 at the time, claimed Bieber sexually assaulted her after they consensually made out, even though she objected to “going too far” with him.