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‘Overnight, everything was dead’: the Teeside fisherman turned activist dubbed the Mr Bates of the seas
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‘Overnight, everything was dead’: the Teeside fisherman turned activist dubbed the Mr Bates of the seas

When thousands of dying crabs washed up on a Yorkshire beach in 2021, Stan Rennie’s livelihood was immediately threatened. Five years later, he’s leading the fight back against toxic ocean pollution – and corporate coverups It was an otherwise typical day on 25 September 2021 when thousands of dead and dying crustaceans washed up on beaches in Yorkshire and the north-east of England.

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Junk review – David Schwimmer is lost in Mubi’s frustrating LA-set misstep
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Junk review – David Schwimmer is lost in Mubi’s frustrating LA-set misstep

At a swanky restaurant in LA, four people aglow with self-importance embark on the time-honored ritual of discussing the screenplays they’re working on – specifically, the screenplay Martin (David Schwimmer), is “working on”. Schwimmer, of course, is still best known for playing a perpetually and comedically exasperated sitcom character; it’s hard to square that extremely familiar voice with Martin’s dark bluster on how “drug-addled gen Zers” have “no respect for the communal aspect of the cinema”, an off-putting rant that is also a tad intriguing – who is more pretentious here, the sweaty…

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Loidis: From the Toolkit of Lovers review – epic 111-minute album is a teeming universe of detail
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Loidis: From the Toolkit of Lovers review – epic 111-minute album is a teeming universe of detail

(Incienso) Brian Leeds, AKA Huerco S, keeps raising the temperature on his once-chilly ambient on an ambitious record full of delightful detail and ASMR-inducing sound design The sun barely seemed to rise in the earlier work of US electronic producer Brian Leeds. It’s hugely pleasurable to let your mind zoom in and out of these arrangements, marvelling at the microscopic detail then appreciating the overarching sense of groove, further enhanced by big melodic motifs: the playful echoing notes in TT Stunt, or the Afrobeat bassline of Running Rich.

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Backrooms to The Monkey: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
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Backrooms to The Monkey: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in a heart-poundingly original horror, while Theo James plays twins cursed by a killer wind-up monkey. Renate Reinsve is Clark’s therapist, Mary, a woman working through her own traumas around enclosed spaces, who nonetheless follows him into these backrooms to attempt a rescue.

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Basma and Temir Alcy: NAD review – skulking, sultry French-Moroccan crew evoke this shifting season
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Basma and Temir Alcy: NAD review – skulking, sultry French-Moroccan crew evoke this shifting season

(Stroom) Vocalist Basma and group Temir Alcy offer a dark and disorienting listen that contemplates loss and new beginnings, stoking a captivating sense of tension The new album from French-Moroccan vocalist Basma and Paris-based group Temir Alcy comes just in time for the changing of the clocks. Opening track Belati sets the tone with its spacious, shapeshifting composition, where ghostly drones and Basma’s layered calls give way to a sluggish beat.

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Radiance 2026: NsromaMusic delivers a memorable night of worship
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Radiance 2026: NsromaMusic delivers a memorable night of worship

Organised by NsromaMusic, the event was an unforgettable experience that stirred hearts, celebrated musical excellence, and left many of us counting down to next year. If you ask me for the highest point of the night, I will answer without hesitation: that Ga song featuring Perez Music!

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AMA Ghana promotes literary tourism at 10th Pa Gya! Festival
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AMA Ghana promotes literary tourism at 10th Pa Gya! Festival

AMA Ghana promotes literary tourism at 10th Pa Gya! The discussion featured Dr Nii Ayi Solomon, a tourism consultant, poet and playwright; Nana Akua Asante, co-founder and CEO of Kids in Tourism Ghana; and Ursula Abena Brago, who represented Mr Ziblim Alhassan, Executive Director of the Ghana Library Authority.

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Nollywood actor Francis Duru dies at 57
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Nollywood actor Francis Duru dies at 57

Veteran Nollywood actor Francis Duru has died at the age of 57 following a brief illness, his family has announced. Born on July 27, 1969, in Cameroon to Nigerian parents from Imo State, Duru completed his primary and secondary education in Cameroon before moving to Nigeria for university studies.

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Country diary: Slugs? Dull? This one is pure showbiz
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Country diary: Slugs? Dull? This one is pure showbiz

This one is pure showbiz. Falmouth, Cornwall: The rainbow sea slug is a bizarre and breathtaking animal, and with warming seas it’s gaining a toehold in the south-west I have never seen a species quite so flamboyant in appearance.

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US actor Tom Skerritt, who starred in Top Gun, Steel Magnolias and Alien, dies aged 93
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US actor Tom Skerritt, who starred in Top Gun, Steel Magnolias and Alien, dies aged 93

US actor Tom Skerritt, who starred in the TV series Picket Fences and the films Alien and Top Gun, has died aged 93, his family says. Actor Tom Skerritt in a scene from the movie ‘Alien’ in 1979 The moustachioed star of several 20th century hit films was born in 1933 in Detroit, Michigan, and served in the US Air Force before pursuing an acting career that boasted several military roles.

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With albums under threat, Raye’s Mercury win is a triumph for grand statements
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With albums under threat, Raye’s Mercury win is a triumph for grand statements

Her winning album has its longueurs, but there’s something heartening about its risk-taking – and the Mercury prize needs big bold records like this to stay relevant It was generally agreed that last year’s Mercury prize ceremony was a vast improvement on its predecessor. In fairness, the bar was set pretty low: hosted without an audience – or indeed a corporate sponsor – in what looked like a broom cupboard at Abbey Road, the 2024 Mercury prize seemed to suggest the whole jig was up.

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