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(Andrew Kotting, 1997)
A travelogue like no other. Andrew Kotting's freeform road trip around the British coast is a tribute to the unsung eccentrics who make up our national identity and to the bonds of family. The two women in Kotting's life - his octogenarian gran and his young daughter Eden, who has Joubert syndrome - are his companions on this salty mini-epic journey in a movie that is as innovative and experimental as it is earthy.
MoviesObituaryJill Haworth obituaryActor best known for her roles in Exodus and the Broadway musical CabaretThe producer-director Otto Preminger had an eye for blue-eyed blondes, casting two complete unknowns, the 19-year-old Jean Seberg in Saint Joan (1957) and the 15-year-old Jill Haworth in Exodus (1960), with mixed results. In Preminger's rambling, all-things-to-all-people saga about the birth of Israel, Haworth, who has died aged 65, played Karen Hansen, a young Danish-Jewish girl searching for her father, from whom she was separated during the second world war.
TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewThis look at the Beatle’s shooting and the legal investigation does justice to a profoundly strange moment – thanks to incredible archive footage
If the fundamental measure of a documentary series is how many first-hand witnesses it can recruit, John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial is unimpeachable. This three-parter has almost everyone you could ask for, apart from Yoko Ono, as it reviews the day Lennon was shot dead by Mark Chapman, in New York on 8 December 1980, and the legal investigation that followed.
The Baring, London N1: Not ‘just another bloody north London gastropub’. Photograph: Laura Edwards/The GuardianThe Baring, London N1: Not ‘just another bloody north London gastropub’. Photograph: Laura Edwards/The GuardianGrace Dent on restaurantsFoodReviewNot all gastropubs are the same. This is an exceedingly good restaurant
En route to the recently revamped The Baring in Islington, I wondered if we need a newer, better word for “gastropub”, not least because nobody ever liked that word anyway.
OpinionEnvironment This article is more than 3 years oldThe poison found in everyone, even unborn babies – and who is responsible for itThis article is more than 3 years oldRob BilottChemicals called PFAS and PFOS – known as forever chemicals – are in the blood of virtually every person on the planet. And they will only accumulate
Imagine that a small group of people coordinated the intentional manufacture and release of a lethal poison – and imagine they knew this poison had special properties that meant, once released into the world, it would be inevitable that it would make its way into the blood of virtually every person on the planet, even babies in their mother’s womb, and stay there, like a ticking time bomb.
California This article is more than 7 years oldUnarmed 73-year-old man killed by police in Bakersfield, CaliforniaThis article is more than 7 years oldFamily of Francisco Serna say he was suffering from dementia and was shot nine times, in same county found to have highest per capita rate of killings by police
A Bakersfield police officer shot and killed an unarmed 73-year-old man on Monday. Family members said Francisco Serna was suffering from dementia and was shot nine times as he took a walk outside his home in the early hours of the morning.
BoxingCorrales dies after high-speed crash'He fought recklessly and he lived recklessly. That was his style'Former two-weight world champion Diego 'Chico' Corrales has died overnight after a high-speed motorcycle accident in Las Vegas. The 29-year-old, who held world titles at super-featherweight and lightweight, will be remembered for his epic win against Jose Luis Castillo in 2005, when he dragged himself off the canvas to force a thrilling stoppage 10th-round victory. The fight was named by the Boxing Writers Association of America and numerous boxing publications as the fight of the year.
SportblogEspanyolEspanyol find salvation in work and a coach happier watching baseballJavier Aguirre's arrival at Espanyol has reversed the club's fortunes, but he would rather be watching home runsJavier Aguirre was sitting at home when they called, reading, studying, listening to classical music and indulging the love of his life: not football, although he was watching plenty of that too, but baseball. Mostly he was just getting in the way and his wife had had enough.
Life and styleFlight to the deathJust two months after 9/11, a Queens suburb suffered the second-worst plane crash in US history. Five years on, residents tell Gary Younge, the cause remains worryingly unresolvedFather Michael Geraghty thought things were winding down by early November 2001. The previous two months had been intensely traumatic for his parish in Belle Harbor, Queens. He had lost 12 of his flock in the September 11 attacks - six were working in the twin towers, another six were firefighters who had gone in to try to save them.
Explosion heard during France v Germany football match in Paris – video GuardianFriendliesFrance game with Germany overshadowed by Paris attacksFrance defeated Germany 2-0 at the Stade de France on Friday evening but the game was overshadowed by several explosions outside the stadium which left the fans inside the arena concerned, although the action continued to its conclusion to an increasingly subdued backdrop.
Olivier Giroud opened the scoring in first-half stoppage-time and Andre-Pierre Gignac added the second late on, by which time many fans were already leaving with news filtering through of fatal attacks in the French city.