Yearly Archives: 2025

The Story of Skids – Film Review

The Story of Skids – Film Review

The Story Of Skids: Scotland’s No. 1 Punk Band (2025) Directed by Mark Sloper Edited by Ethan Ungless Produced by Richard Jobson, Alan Byron Featuring Richard Jobson Few figures in Scottish punk history command as much fascination as Richard Jobson, part poet, part bruiser, part punk evangelist. Scotland’s Number 1 Punk Band – The Story Of Skids is, fittingly, his film. A deeply personal journey through post-industrial Fife, it’s both a social document and a self-portrait: Jobson in…

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Conservative activist sues Google over AI-generated statements | Technology News

The lawsuit comes amid growing concerns about how AI fuels the spread of misinformation.Published On 22 Oct 202522 Oct 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2ShareConservative activist Robby Starbuck sued Google, alleging that the tech giant’s artificial intelligence systems generated “outrageously false” information about him.On Wednesday, Starbuck said in the lawsuit, filed in Delaware state court, that Google’s AI systems falsely called him a “child rapist,” “serial sexual abuser” and “shooter” in response to user queries and delivered…

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EU ambiguity on Western Sahara frozen conflict is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for Sahrawis, study shows

The European Union’s legal ambiguity on the Western Sahara frozen conflict is an increasingly glaring source of vulnerability for Sahrawis, a new study shows. The lack of an EU firm position on the non-self-governing status of Western Sahara’s territory is a disadvantage for the Polisario Front. The EU’s ambiguity includes questions such as where lies the distinction between Western Sahara’s people and local population and who is entitled to represent them. The study, by Dr Irene Fernández-Molina, from…

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Kat Koan: The Tides Will Turn

Kat Koan: The Tides Will Turn

Kat Koan: The Tides Will Turn (Self Released) DL/Streaming Available 24th October Buy Here The Berlin based artist Kat Koan releases new EP, The Tides Will Turn, explaining she wanted to do something that has a sense of hope…   For The Tides Will Turn, Koan has been working with 2 x Grammy Award Winning Producer Ainsley Adams whose credits include artists such as Train and Beverly Knight to name but two. Anyone familiar with Koan’s work, her…

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Heavitree Road police station student accommodation and “co-living” scheme consultation extended

Heavitree Road police station student accommodation and “co-living” scheme consultation extended

The public consultation on plans for a student accommodation and “co-living” complex in Heavitree Road has been extended to Sunday 9 November following revisions to the scheme.The application for full planning permission to build an 813-bed complex on the three-acre site of the former police station and magistrates court was submitted in May this year. 399 student bedrooms and 414 “co-living” bedspaces are proposed in seven blocks up to six storeys tall.The application has so far received 32…

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Nominations to switch on Falmouth Christmas lights open

Nominations to switch on Falmouth Christmas lights open

People are being asked to nominate a person or a group to turn on a town's Christmas lights.Falmouth Town Council said every year a local individual, community group or organisation was nominated to switch on the Christmas lights. It is an opportunity to honour those who have made positive impact on the town whether it was a volunteer who has gone "above and beyond", a young person who has inspired others or an unsung hero. Falmouth town manager…

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Somerset steam railway helps dogs make their vet appointment

Somerset steam railway helps dogs make their vet appointment

An oil spill which closed a busy route has forced two dogs (and their owner) to find an alternative route to their vets appointment.The A39 in Washford, Somerset, was closed on Tuesday after a van and lorry collided and emergency services worked to contain a fuel leak.Instead of battling the busy, narrow, twisting back roads on the outskirts of Exmoor to visit the vets in Minehead, Christopher Wade decided to hop on the heritage steam railway to complete…

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Storm Benjamin ‘to bring wind and heavy rain’ to South West

Storm Benjamin ‘to bring wind and heavy rain’ to South West

Caroline RobinsonSouth WestMet OfficeA yellow weather warning for wind and rain has been issued for ThursdayHeavy rain and wind gusts up to 60mph (97 km/h) are forecast for the South West on Thursday due to Storm Benjamin. The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for wind for Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly from 06:00 to 15:00 BST.It is also warning of heavy rain from 00:00 until 21:00 in Devon and Cornwall as Storm Benjamin,…

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Cash machine thieves toured country to steal

Cash machine thieves toured country to steal

Thieves who toured the country to break into cash machines to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds have been jailed.Luke McCarthy, 40, and Harry Thomas, 29, both from Bristol, played leading roles as groups took power tools to machines 16 times, mostly on petrol station forecourts and in supermarkets at night.Prosecutors said the group attempted thefts or stole from BP petrol stations in Twyford, Alton, Wokingham, Basingstoke, Farnham and Stow-on-the-Wold, Essos in Weymouth and Stoke and a Shell…

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Man who tried to smuggle Iraqis sentenced after Devon arrest

An Iraqi national has been sentenced for breaching UK immigration laws after arriving on a yacht from France with a group of fellow migrants, including a baby.Failed asylum seeker Rasty Hassan, 27, was intercepted off the coast of Brixham, Devon, in September 2024 aboard the 26ft (8m) yacht Induna, Plymouth Crown Court heard.He pleaded guilty to arriving in the UK without entry clearance and to conspiring to facilitate illegal entry for others and was handed a two-year prison…

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LIVE: Trump to host NATO chief as Putin meeting collapses | Donald Trump News

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte visits the US as Trump proposes freezing the battle lines in the Russia-Ukraine war.Published On 22 Oct 202522 Oct 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2Share Source link

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