Thursday, November 12
Author: Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney has been covering Greater Manchester for the best part of a decade. She started at a local paper in Salford, moved to digital, and spent three years on the housing and planning beat before going independent. She has sat through more council cabinet meetings than she cares to count and still reads the planning portal on her phone. She writes about transport, housing, devolution, policing, and the daily grind of how a city actually runs. She has a particular interest in who benefits from regeneration and who gets moved along by it. Caitlin lives in Chorlton. She thinks the Metrolink is both Manchester's best and worst infrastructure, and does not trust anyone who calls the city centre "town".
The Blink Battery Doorbell 2K+ and Blink Chime bundle has fallen to $59.99 as part of Amazon’s early Labor Day sale, down from $109.98, a 45% saving of $49.99 that price trackers say is the lowest the bundle has ever been.It is an American deal in dollars, but for anyone with family stateside or who simply follows the consumer tech market, it is worth knowing what the package actually includes before deciding whether that price stacks up.What You Get in the Blink Battery Doorbell 2K+ BundleThe bundle pairs the Blink Battery Doorbell 2K+ with the Blink Chime and a Sync…
The Lake Ontario name change ordered by US President Donald Trump is already showing up on Google Maps, but several rival apps are, for now, refusing to follow suit. On 27 August 2026, Trump signed an executive order renaming the lake ‘Lake America’, framing it as retaliation against Canada over trade talks, according to PBS NewsHour.Worth pointing out: Lake Ontario’s name has no connection to the Canadian province of the same name. It is an Indigenous name, meaning ‘the lake is big’ or ‘the lake is beautiful’, first used by Europeans in the early 1600s, before either the US or…
The Finneas O’Connell wedding to Claudia Sulewski took place on 29 August 2026, nearly eight years after the couple first connected on the exclusive dating app Raya in 2018. According to People, the ceremony was held at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, in front of a small gathering of friends and family.Vogue reported the location as Montecito, California. Billie Eilish, O’Connell’s sister, reportedly officiated at the ceremony. Sulewski wore a strapless Oscar de la Renta gown, one of four custom wedding looks from the fashion house for the occasion.The guest list was, to put it mildly, not short…
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The Daisy Chain Fields festival wrapped its inaugural edition on 29 August at Great Park in Irvine, California, with Olivia Rodrigo announcing from the stage that a $10 million donation raised by the event had been matched by Melinda French Gates, bringing the total to $20 million for women’s and girls’ causes.The one-day festival, curated by Rodrigo and featuring a lineup made up entirely of women artists and female-fronted acts, had been building to that moment since a press conference the previous day, when Rodrigo confirmed the initial $10 million raised. ‘It’s a real honor to announce that we are…
The Roger Federer Hall of Fame induction weekend in Newport was never going to be a quiet affair, and it wasn’t. As Federer joined the International Tennis Hall of Fame alongside fellow inductee Mary Carillo, the grounds filled with fans, RF-branded merchandise, and Lemon Aces, the gin-and-lemon cocktail poured by Silent Pool Gin, the ITHF’s official cocktail partner. Thirty-three Hall of Famers joined the celebrations, along with family, friends and followers who had made the trip from near and far.The celebration had begun 48 hours before the induction itself, at a cocktail event at Newport’s Marble House, where Federer appeared…
Making your Apple foldable iPhone predictions could land you a brand-new Apple Watch, and the window to play closes on 1 September. Lifehacker and the wider CNET Group (covering CNET, ZDNet, Mashable and PCMag) are running the final round of their Big Guessing Game, a three-part prediction contest tied to Apple’s biggest announcements of the year.Round 3 launched on 18 August and runs to 1 September at 11:59pm ET. That gives readers a few days left to answer five questions about what Apple is set to reveal at its autumn event before the grand-prize drawing takes place.What Is Apple Expected…
The Lioness season 3 episodes are dropping weekly on Paramount+, with the show’s third run having launched on 2 August and building towards a season finale on 20 September. Eight episodes, no mid-season gaps, no messing about.The return landed with some serious momentum behind it. According to Paramount, the season 3 premiere drew 7.1 million viewers in its first seven days, putting it comfortably ahead of the audience the season 2 debut pulled in 2024. That is not a small jump. Streaming shows do not usually get louder in their third year; this one did.Lioness Season 3 Episodes: The Full…
Amazon Labor Day fitness deals are already live, with discounts across treadmills, exercise bikes, adjustable dumbbells and home gym staples, no need to wait for the long weekend itself. If the summer quietly swallowed your training plans whole, this is a reasonable moment to do something about it.The picks below were highlighted by Lifehacker Senior Staff Writer Meredith Dietz, who covers personal fitness tech and home gym equipment. Dietz has been tracking the sale as it builds toward the holiday weekend, with more deals expected to be added as it progresses.Amazon Labor Day fitness deals on cardio equipmentThe standout on…
Home Depot’s Milwaukee tools Home Depot sale is running ahead of Labour Day weekend, and it is worth a proper look before the long weekend gets underway. Four M12 kits are reduced by between 57% and 65%, starting from £119 apiece, and there is a separate M18 promotion running alongside that throws in a free tool or battery on qualifying purchases.The deals run through 9 September, so there is a bit of time to think it through rather than panic-buying a stapler you will use twice.What the M12 Milwaukee Tools Home Depot Sale Actually Gets YouThe headline deal is the…
Cherry Seaborn Ed Sheeran’s relationship is one of music’s most closely guarded partnerships: private by design, yet impossible to keep entirely out of the public record when so many of the world’s biggest love songs are addressed to the same woman. Here is what is actually known about her life, her health, and the long story of how they got here. How Cherry Seaborn and Ed Sheeran got together The pair first crossed paths at Thomas Mills High School in Suffolk. They did not get together then. According to the BBC, they reconnected in 2015, reportedly at a Fourth of…
If you have been chasing Jacob’s Ladder Lost vibes without knowing exactly what you were looking for, the 1990 psychological thriller starring Tim Robbins is the answer. It has been more than 15 years since Lost ended its run on broadcast television, and fans have spent the time since hunting for something that matches it: the layered mystery, the non-linear storytelling, the gut-punch emotional payoff. Jacob’s Ladder is that film.On paper, a Vietnam War-era psychological horror film might not scream ‘same energy as a show about a smoke monster and a mysterious island.’ Give it an hour, though, and the…
