In a separate statement, Lissie Harper, PC Harper’s widow, said it was “disgusting” that his killers could be eligible for early release. She said she was “beyond appalled and bristling with anger to hear that Andrew’s killers are soon to be free to roam the streets”. Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Jason Hogg said the…
Sean Astin is showing me around his new office. There’s framed movie prints on the walls, piles of paperwork and a stack of boxes of Stranger Things Funko Pops. “If you were here, you could look out this window and see a 10-storey building with our iconic Sag-Aftra logo on it,” he says proudly on…
Mary Jo Campbell, the mother of the Kardashian-Jenner momager Kris Jenner, has died aged 91. Jenner, 70, announced the news on Thursday on social media: “Today, we said goodbye to my beautiful Mommy MJ.” No cause of death was immediately provided. Campbell, also known as MJ Shannon, appeared on the family’s reality programmes multiple times…
The mother of a 16-year-old girl who died at an Essex mental health unit has made a direct appeal to the chair of a public inquiry, saying: “Don’t let the blood be on your hands – you can change things.” Victoria Sebastian was giving evidence to the Lampard Inquiry in London, which is examining the…
Danish actor Trine Dyrholm gives a magnetic performance with all guns blazing in this intensely painful, uncomfortable but also sometimes uncomfortably funny film from writer-director Mads Mengel; it is about a dysfunctional family and is shot in a freewheeling handheld style with lots of looming extreme closeups, a film in the spirit of Thomas Vinterberg’s…
A Venezuelan mother has died while saving her daughter during the earthquakes that hit the country, according to footballer Héctor Bello and local media. Bello wrote on his Instagram that “his precious love”, named by Venezuelan news outlets as his wife Andrea, saved the life of their toddler during two powerful quakes. “I’ll tell her…
Pope Leo XIV encouraged Italians June 20 to rediscover their lagging Catholic faith during a visit to northern Italy where he prayed before the relics of St. Augustine, the intellectual giant of the early Christian church and inspiration of his religious spirituality. Leo traveled by helicopter to Pavia, near Milan, where the remains of the…
In Harriet Clark’s debut novel, The Hill, a nun explains what it’s like for babies born in prison. “They don’t know that they are in prison,” she says, “but they know when we force them to leave.” The book’s child protagonist is Suzanna, whose mother has been serving a life sentence for as long as…
My mother is in her 70s and addicted to playing video games such as Tetris, many different versions of solitaire and slot machine gambling games. In the 1990s my parents bought a desktop computer and my mum started to play mostly card games on it for hours. As technology has progressed, she moved to a…
(RNS) — There are moments when a single person seems to gather the entire story of the Jewish people into her heart. Rachel Goldberg-Polin is a perfect example. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas kidnapped her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, from the Nova Music Festival. He lost part of his arm. Hamas held him as a…
