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With it being the most romantic day of the year, the team at Dogs Trust Manchester is hoping Cupid’s arrow strikes for two-year-old Italian Corso Cross, Cleo, as she has been waiting half her life to find her special someone.

Angelique Jackson Ready Life founder & CEO Ashley D. Bell announced the creation Ready Entertainment, a new production company dedicated to creating movies and TV shows with strong social justice messages. Bell is a corporate finance attorney and the former White House policy advisor for entrepreneurship & innovation. Dr. Bernice A. King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, is a co-founder of Ready Life and will take an active role in Ready Entertainment. Ready Life is an innovative fintech platform with a suite of financial tools that empower individuals to create and preserve generational wealth. Ready Entertainment follows the company’s mission to close the racial equity gap by helping to provide financial loans and the ability to buy a home to those without credit, empowering African Americans to take back control of their finances and banking institutions.

Former Love Island and Dancing On Ice contestant Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu says that some of her family members have been "sleeping outside" following the Turkey-Syria earthquake. The reality TV star who is of Turkish decent says that she has donated cash to the relief effort and wants to go over and volunteer.

EXCLUSIVE: Stacie Greenwell (Mayor of Kingstown) has booked a recurring role in Amazon’s Alex Cross series starring Aldis Hodge as the titular character.

Newly released surveillance video from downtown Moscow, Idaho appears to show two of the four slain University of Idaho students walking with an unidentified man hours before they were murdered.

EXCLUSIVE: Rashidi Hendrix has joined Independent Artists Media (IAM) as a partner. 

Dunkeld and Birnam Santa Day is set to make Highland Perthshire buzz with excitement on Saturday.

, Meghan Markle—the Duchess of Sussex—has often worn jewelry that pays tribute to her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana. When Prince Harry designed , for example, he included two diamonds from his mother’s personal collection, alongside a larger diamond sourced from Botswana.Since then, the Duchess has sported a number of pieces that previously belonged to Diana, including a dazzling aquamarine ring by Asprey that she wore for her wedding reception and, more recently, , presented by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights non-profit organisation.Below, see five poignant pieces from Princess Diana’s jewelry collection that Meghan Markle has worn over the years.Meghan first wore Diana’s aquamarine ring for her wedding reception at Frogmore House in May 2018, before bringing it back out during a visit to Tonga later that year.

Brad William Henke, a former NFL player who segued to acting and appeared in TV series including Orange Is the New Black, Justified and Lost and such films as Pacific Rim and World Trade Center, has died. He was 56. His family said Henke died in his sleep November 28, but no cause was given.

Ryan Eggold (New Amsterdam) and Isaiah Mustafa (It: Chapter 2) will star opposite Aldis Hodge in Amazon’s Alex Cross series, Cross, in series regular roles.

Alec Baldwin has filed a cross-complaint in regard to the on-set shooting death of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, alleging in a lawsuit filed Friday that the blame lies with three of the film’s crew members, as well as the man who supplied ammunition to the set.  Baldwin named Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, David Halls, Seth Kenney, PDQ Arm and Prop, LLC (“PDQ”) and Sarah Zachry collectively as “cross-defendants” in a suit originally filed against him last year by Mamie Mitchell, the film’s script supervisor.

Kilmarnock's most iconic building looks set to be transformed into a church.

Climate activist group Just Stop Oil have explained the reason behind their protest after throwing soup over a famous Van Gogh painting.

Kevin Spacey finished testifying on Tuesday in the $40 million sexual misconduct lawsuit brought against the “House of Cards” star by Anthony Rapp. The Oscar-winning actor was cross-examined by Rapp’s attorney Richard Steigman, and remained calm, smirking at points, as he was grilled about his drug use and memories of encountering Rapp in 1986 when they were both appearing in stage productions. Rapp was 14 and starring in “Precious Sons”; Spacey was on Broadway in the Jack Lemmon-led revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” The conversation was meandering — Spacey continued to deny Rapp’s claims that he tried to seduce the then-teenager — and at one point even touched upon a key sequence in “American Beauty” in which Spacey’s character Lester Burnham masturbates to an image of his daughter’s best friend bedecked with rose petals while lying in an oversized tub.

Cross-cultural coalitions have ruled Los Angeles politics for decades, helping elect both Black and Latino politicians to top leadership roles in the huge racially and ethnically diverse city. But a shocking recording of racist comments by the City Council president has laid bare the tensions over political power that have been quietly simmering between the Latino and Black communities. Nury Martinez, the first Latina elected president of the Los Angeles City Council, resigned from her leadership role last week, then from the council altogether, after a leaked recording surfaced of her making racist remarks and other coarse comments in discussion with other Hispanic leaders.

Liza Foreman Cineflix Rights has presold Helium’s ten-part Australian crime drama “Last King of The Cross” to Sky.  Starring Tim Roth, the series will air exclusively in all Sky territories in Italy, the UK, Ireland and Germany, the company has announced.  Inspired by John Ibrahim’s best-selling autobiography, which follows his rise from a poverty-stricken immigrant to Australia’s nightclub kingpin, “Last King of The Cross” tells the story of two brothers who lose each other in their ascent to power. Set in Sydney’s Kings Cross in the 1980s and 1990s, the cast includes Lincoln Younes (“Grand Hotel,” “Tangle”), Claude Jabbour (“Eden,” “Stateless”), and Callan Mulvey (“300: Rise of an Empire”). Cineflix Rights is the exclusive international distribution partner.   

Tim Roth-starring Australian drama Last King of the Cross has been picked up by Sky in Europe, marking the first major sale of the Paramount+ series as it heads to Mipcom Cannes.

Brendan Fraser received yet another standing ovation for his performance in "The Whale." Fraser, 53, was moved to tears during his second standing ovation – this time at the London Film Festival.The film was shown to an audience Tuesday night and the actor reportedly received a five-minute standing ovation. The reaction to the film at the London Film Festival follows his first standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival in early September.The audience bestowed a six-minute standing ovation to the "Crash" star.

MSNBC host Tiffany Cross claimed it’s "mind-boggling" that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes isn’t crushing his opponent, incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in the polls.  While interviewing Barnes on her Saturday show, "The Cross Connection" host and her guest talked about how "dangerous" and "out-of-touch" Johnson’s policies are, claiming that they’re "not based in facts."  Cross also referred to Johnson as a "Trump acolyte" and fixated on his "anti-abortion" policies, which Barnes has been hammering throughout the campaign.

EXCLUSIVE: No surprise here, but we hear Regal has shuttered 12 of its 542 multiplexes as parent company Cineworld remains in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

exactly five years ago. As the storm made its way through the Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, and Bermuda, thousands were left without homes due to severe flooding and mudslides.

Strictly Come Dancing's Helen Skelton from taking time out from training to help with something else quite magical.READ: Ola & James Jordan's Strictly verdict on Will's jive, Ellie's emotional performance and winner predictionsThe presenter on Countryfile visited Hoar Cross Hall in Staffordshire as it was transformed into a enchanted manor for two weeks to welcome 240 families with children living with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses.The Walt Disney Company teamed up with charities Make-A-Wish UK and The Kentown Wizard Foundation to create three-day immersive Disney Wish experiences for the children and their families, repeating the success of last year’s first event held in the UK, when overseas holiday dreams had to be put on hold due to the pandemic. When Helen, 39, was asked to go along and meet some of the children and their families, she didn’t hesitate.

Westminster Abbey’s tenor bell will be tolled every minute for 96 minutes, reflecting the years of the Queen’s life.The Queen is to be reunited with her husband the Duke of Edinburgh as she is laid to rest in a historic state funeral. Crowds of mourners have flocked to London, Windsor and royal sites throughout the UK on the national bank holiday, with the service set to draw millions of TV viewers across the globe.

The Queen's state funeral is set to be one of the biggest international events the UK has ever seen.

Zuzana Točíková Vojteková Guest Contributor The first part of “The Strangers,” a trilogy directed by Renny Harlin and produced by Lionsgate, has started production in Slovakia. Rastislav Kuril’s Frame Film is servicing the production in the country. The producers registered for the 33% cash rebate at the Slovak Audiovisual Fund in June, Film New Europe reports. Filming on the first part of the trilogy started in August on locations in and around Bratislava. The trilogy is a remake of the 2008 film “The Strangers,” which was written and directed by Bryan Bertino, with Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman starring. Together with its 2018 sequel “The Strangers: Prey at Night,” it became a cult horror classic.

Marta Balaga Finland’s leading film festival Love & Anarchy is ready to celebrate its 35th edition, free of COVID restrictions and finally able to focus on the films and the audience, says executive director Anna Möttölä in Helsinki. But it has been a bittersweet time, marked by the loss of Jean-Luc Godard and Lina Wertmüller back in December, whose 1973 film gave the event its name. While Wertmüller will be celebrated with a screening of “Seven Beauties,” another tragedy is on the team’s mind: the sudden death of Charlbi Dean, the star of Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner – and the festival’s opening film – “Triangle of Sadness.”

Six countries have not received invitations to the Queen's state funeral on Monday September 19.

Joe Jonas had his wife Sophie Turner by his side for the premiere of his new movie!

A US rapper who performed on one of Ed Sheeran's hit singles has reportedly been shot dead in America. PnB Rock was fatally injured during a robbery at a restaurant in Los Angeles, according to reports in the US.