Sunday 18 January 2015

EXCLUSIVE: Flithy bargain! Litter wipes 12% off house prices





STREET litter can knock tens of thousands of pounds off the price of your house.


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The Killing's Sofie Gråbøl: 'Breast cancer puts your life in a new perspective'





SHE'S back in another slice of Nordic noir – but Sofie Gråbøl is considerably warmer in real life, as Olly Grant discovers


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VIDEO: Scarlett Johansson's sexiest moments on film





LUCY star Scarlett Johansson sizzles in every role whether kissing Penelope Cruz, skinny dipping, kicking ass in a leather catsuit or playing a sex-crazed alien


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'Coronation Street's loss of a sense of humour is no joke'





THE producers of Coronation Street have turned the ITV soap into a "misery fest", insiders complain.


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Harry Potter actor Tom Felton: 'My biggest regret? No answering the phone to my mum'





THE 27-year-old is famous for playing Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. He is dating actress Jade Olivia


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'Sex became a taboo' Woman's life made a misery because of 18-day periods





PERIODS made life a misery for Bhavini Patel, but a short surgical procedure put an end to years of suffering, as Christine Fieldhouse reports


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Learning music improves children's abilities and raises their IQs, study finds





A BERKSHIRE school has found the key to better learning and brighter, happier pupils, as Rachel Carlyle reports


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Lee Daniels says he wants to expose homophobia

PASADENA, California (AP) " The creator of Fox's prime-time soap "Empire" said he wants to "blow the lid off homophobia" in the African-American community with a depiction of the show's lead character's hostile relationship with his...


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'American Idol' talks of working with 'Empire'

PASADENA, California (AP) " "American Idol" producers have talked about a cross-promotion with "Empire," Fox's hot new series about a music industry family, perhaps getting some of the contestants on the scripted show, producers said...


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Zuckerberg's next book pick: Pinker's 'The Better Angels'

NEW YORK (AP) " Mark Zuckerberg has made his next book club pick, a release he considers especially timely after the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.The Facebook CEO announced Saturday he would take on Steven Pinker's "The Better...


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New Fox TV chiefs look for showmen to rescue network

PASADENA, California (AP) " Producers capable of making "big, bold" series such as Fox's freshman drama "Empire" are key to rescuing the network from its ratings slump, its top executives said Friday.Dana Walden and Gary Newman,...


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The Decemberists, The Waterboys, B.C Camplight: Album reviews





WHAT A Terrible World... Is The Decemberist's best yet, Modern Blues is the most intimate, personal offering from Waterboy-in-chief Mike Scott to date, while B.C Camplight's How To Die In The North is a confessional borne on breathy harmonies and sumptious power-chords


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Broadchurch's Matthew Gravelle: 'I guess people accepted that I wasn’t actually a killer'





THE ACTOR, 38, alleged killer Joe Miller from Broadchurch, talks about the reaction to his revelation in the ITV series that he was “not guilty”...


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Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Schubert’s Winterreise: Opera reviews





MICHAEL Boyd's L’Orfeo brings opera to new audiences with an excellent cast, while Ian Bostridge gives a transfixing performance in Schubert's Winterreise


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Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown and The Railway Children: Reviews





WOMEN On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown is an undistinguished adaptation of Pedro Almodovar’s cult film, while The Railway Children is a skilful adaptation of Edith Nesbit’s classic novel


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Call The Midwife's Jenny Agutter: 'It’s not a show about religion, it’s about faith'





THE LADIES of Nonnatus House return for a fourth series of the delivery drama. David Stephenson talks to cast members old and new


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Young Men by BalletBoyz at Sadler's Wells: Review





13 DANCERS including two women presented in Islington the world premiere of Young Men, choreographer Ivan Perez’s concept of World War I


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Raw and deeply personal: Wild review and trailer





WILD is raw and deeply personal but interrupted by too many flashbacks to properly find its feet


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'Thought-provoking and highly original': Whiplash review and trailer





A BRACING and uncomfortable viewing but tense, thought-provoking and highly original


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Gripping story of the most lethal sniper in US military history: American Sniper review





A COOLLY even-handed and thoroughly absorbing look at a morally ambiguous modern conflict and the toll on all sides


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