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Truss and Kwarteng face Commons bid to dock their pay over ‘gross mismanagement’

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are facing a parliamentary bid to dock their pay following their “gross mismanagement” of the economy. The Liberal Democrats plan to table a censure motion in the House of Commons calling for the Prime Minister and the ...

04 Oct 2022 at 13:29

Channel 4 renews Jack Rooke’s comedy Big Boys for second series

Jack Rooke’s comedy Big Boys has been renewed by Channel 4 for a second series. The programme, about two mismatched young men who strike up an unlikely friendship at university, stars Derry Girls actor Dylan Llewellyn alongside Jon Pointing. It ...

23 Aug 2022 at 12:07

Movies

Oscars name live TV veterans as 2023 executive producers in change of strategy

Live TV veterans Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner have been named executive producers of the 95th Oscars. Bill Kramer, chief executive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said they had been chosen as part of “a focus on expertise ...

17 Sept 2022 at 19:57

Movies

Long-time Academy member sentenced to eight years in prison for child sex abuse

Long time Academy member Jeffrey Cooper has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting a child. Cooper, 70, sexually assaulted a girl, who was between 12 and 13 years old at the time, at his home between 2005 and 2007. A ...

26 Jul 2022 at 02:24

World

Producer Janet Yang elected president of film academy

Producer Janet Yang has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group’s board of governors announced, making her the first Asian American to lead the film academy. Yang, the 66-year-old producer of The ...

03 Aug 2022 at 14:32

Local News

‘Derry must not pay the price of Brexit destruction'

Organisations in Derry which play a vital role in supporting communities should not have to pay the price of the ‘damaging and destructive Tory/DUP Brexit’, Sinn Féin Councillor John McGowan has said. Councillor McGowan was commenting ...

27 Jul 2022 at 16:33

Ireland

Taoiseach struck by ‘attempts to rename the truth’ over National Maternity Hospital

Taoiseach Micheal Martin said that he has been struck by attempts to “reverse” or “rename” the truth over the colocation of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) at St Vincent’s. A Sinn Fein motion that calls for the NMH be built on ...

18 May 2022 at 14:25

Derry News

Public transport fares freeze as Derry Council calls for fares to be scrapped

Infrastructure Minister, Nichola Mallon, has taken the decision to freeze fares on the public transport network due to the ongoing cost of living crisis facing individuals and families across the North. Speaking on her decision, Ms ...

01 Mar 2022 at 18:33

Movies

Academy moves hearing to discuss Will Smith’s Oscars slap forward

The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has moved its meeting to address Will Smith’s actions at the Oscars forward to this Friday in a bid to deal with the incident “in a timely fashion”. President David ...

06 Apr 2022 at 19:25

Entertainment

British animator says fellow nominees ‘upset’ as categories cut from live show

A British animator who has been nominated for an Oscar said her fellow nominees were left “very upset” and felt “marginalised” by the decision to cut their categories from the ceremony’s live broadcast. The Academy of Motion ...

27 Mar 2022 at 18:55

Movies

Will Smith resigns from the Academy following his ‘inexcusable’ Oscars behaviour

Will Smith said he had “betrayed the trust of the Academy” as he resigned from the organisation, following his “shocking, painful, and inexcusable” actions at the Oscars. The actor, 53, said he was “heartbroken” and would ...

02 Apr 2022 at 03:55

Movies

Academy accepts Smith’s ‘immediate resignation’ ahead of disciplinary hearing

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says it has accepted Will Smith’s “immediate resignation” from the organisation and will “continue to move forward” with its disciplinary proceedings against him. The actor ...

02 Apr 2022 at 02:25

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