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A speeding Albanian delivery driver with an expired licence who mowed down and killed a "bright and caring" Scots teenager has been jailed for more than five years.

EXCLUSIVE: Whale with Steve Backshall, the latest high-end natural history series out of the UK is racking up international sales, as the Sky Nature show’s executive producer Wendy Darke talked up the importance of distribution and tax credits in getting such programs made.

Blaga’s Lessons, Bulgaria’s International Film Oscar submission, has set a release in multiple countries.

This was the moment the net closed in on a multi-million pound drug smuggling gang. Four men, including a high-level drug dealer from Trafford, were arrested by National Crime Agency (NCA) investigators as they unloaded a shipping container which arrived in the UK from Ecuador.

Nine teenagers charged with murdering 16-year-old Kennie Carter could go on trial next year. Kennie died in hospital after being stabbed in Stretford, Trafford, in January last year. Police have charged nine teenagers with murder and manslaughter following an investigation by GMP's Major Incident Team.

UK director George Amponsah’s thriller Gassed Up has won the London Film Festival (LFF) Audience Award for Best Feature in the 67th edition running from October 4 to 15, as the event also posts record participation.

K.J. Yossman “House of Kardashian,” the documentary about television’s most famous family, is heading to Australia among other territories. FOXTEL have picked up the three-part doc series, made by 72 Films, for the Australian market.

A man has been arrested after police uncovered a huge cannabis farm inside a former Marks & Spencer in the centre of a Peak District town.

Drug dealers acting on the orders of a crime gang were caught with snap bags of cocaine hidden in a sock as cops targeted a city centre 'hotspot'. Haziz Muka, 23, and Elidon Jukaj, 24, were spotted by police in a car in Manchester city centre.

Police are searching for three men suspected of being linked to a break-in at the home of England footballer Raheem Sterling.

Despite owning the dancefloors with her music, Dua Lipa still finds time to dive into a good book.

EXCLUSIVE: The Outlaws producer Big Talk Studios is developing its first TV thriller, a high-stakes series about a drug-smuggling submarine.

Ellise Shafer SkyShowtime, the European streaming home to releases from Paramount and Universal, has revealed its upcoming film and TV slate through the rest of the year, including “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” and “Poker Face.” Just one year since the streaming service’s launch in the Nordics and six months since its rollout in 20 more European markets, SkyShowtime is on track to have 50% of this year’s box office on the platform. “Less than a year since our launch, SkyShowtime boasts an impressive line-up of amazing content,” SkyShowtime CEO Monty Sarhan said in a statement.

When Haris Namani was booted from the Love Island villa during this year's winter series, it looked like his hopes of finding love were over. But now it's been revealed that the 21-year-old hasn't given up hope just yet, as he's signed the Albanian version of the hit dating show.The salesman, from Doncaster, who was originally linked to Olivia Hawkins during his time on the series, was removed during his time on the UK series however, after a video of him involved in a street brawl emerged on social media.

SPOILER ALERTS ON JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL FINALE: Timothy Olyphant’s return to the role of US Marshal Raylan Givens in Justified: City Primeval completed its seven-episode limited series run tonight on FX. Surviving the Oklahoma Wildman Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook), Givens seemed headed to a proper retirement, hanging up his badge and gun for a quiet life in Miami. Just when he was finally out — a pensioner content to refurbish a Florida shack and dote on the daughter he neglected for years — with the promise of a relationship with lawyer Carolyn (Aunjanue Ellis)…up pops Boyd Crowder, the charming silver-tongued psychopath played by Walton Goggins. Crowder, who vexed Raylan on and off throughout the original series creation from the Elmore Leonard novels, has escaped with the help of a girlfriend posing as a guard supposed to escort him to another prison that will help a physical malady. And just like that, Givens is faced with the prospect of returning once more before Crowder makes it across the border of Mexico with his accomplice. In the interview that follows this recap, Michael Dinner — who hatched the series revival with David Andron and directed three episodes including tonight’s finale — acknowledges there is every possibility that Givens could be back for one more showdown. The episode closes with Givens not answering the cell phone call to focus on his daughter. For the moment, anyway.

As Sweden faced off against Australia in a battle for the third place honour in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, which England's Lionesses have reached the final of, on Saturday 19 August at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, it was the former who dominated the game. And Sweden's win against the Matildas appeared thanks to star players Kosovare Asllani and Fridolina Rolfö, with the latter scoring the first goal of the game in 30th minute - before Kosovare swooped in with the second during the 63rd minute.

Police are urgently trying to locate a 16-year-old Albanian boy who has been reported missing from the Irvine area.

Tara Karajica In Sudabeh Mortezai’s provocative fifth feature, “Europa,” the Vienna-based director follows ambitious executive Beate from Europa, a mysterious corporation looking to expand into the Balkans by seemingly promoting philanthropy and investment in underdeveloped areas. What Europa actually needs is to buy land from the locals in a remote Albanian valley. The film plays in Competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Dua Lipa channeled her inner Mermaid Barbie in a sleek dress.

in London over the past couple of weeks.I'm not quite sure what that means, but it might have something to do with recent trip to her homeland. Though she was born in London, Lipa grew up in the country of Kosovo, not far from her parents' native Albania.

The Sarajevo Film Festival has unveiled its official selection for this year’s edition, with Elene Naveriani’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry among the titles playing in Competition.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Forty-nine films will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards at the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs in Bosnia and Herzegovina from Aug. 11 to 18. The Feature Film Competition will present 11 titles, with two world premieres, one international and five regional premieres. World premieres include “Europa” from Austrian-Iranian filmmaker Sudabeh Mortezai, whose credits include 2018 Venice Days entry “Joy,” the Best Film winner at London Film Festival, and “Macondo,” which competed for the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival in 2014. The other world premiere is “Medium,” from Greek director Christina Ioakeimidi, whose debut feature was “Harisma” in 2010.

An Albanian woman studying to be a lawyer in Manchester has said: "We are not all criminals."

For many the Maldives are a dream holiday destination, with pristine, white sandy beaches and picturesque wooden huts hanging over the sea. Known for its luxury resorts, the archipelago in the Indian Ocean is a favourite with the rich and famous.

, Ava Max was slapped by a concert-goer. Completely unacceptable.As shows, at an LA concert on Tuesday, June 20, Max was performing her choreography when a man who had rushed the stage and was being dragged off reached out for her, his hand colliding with her face.

A woman accused of posing as a man to prey on a short-sighted teenage girl has been found guilty of sexual assault by kissing and cleared of 16 other sex offences.

Dua Lipa has criticised the Government’s “small-minded and shortsighted” attitude to migrants.In October, the home secretary Suella Braverman singled out “Albanian criminals” and claimed England was facing an “invasion” of migrants crossing the Channel by small boats.In a new interview with The Sunday Times Dua Lipa, who was born in London to Kosovan-Albanian parents, said the way the British government has discussed immigration “hurts”.“All those words thrown around about immigrants? I always felt London was an amalgamation of cultures. It is integral to the city,” she said.

Brit Award-winning pop star Dua Lipa has said the way ministers discuss migrants is "short sighted and small minded". The 27-year-old, born in London to Kosovar-Albanian parents, called for "more empathy" and said she'd been "hurt" by the way the government had discussed Albanian people. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has previously spoken of "Albanian criminals" crossing the Channel and likened the influx of small boats to an "invasion".

The upcoming summer movie Barbie starring Margot Robbie has just revealed the artists featured on the movie’s soundtrack!

Dua Lipa is opening up about her fabulous career as a pop superstar.