Friday, November 13
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".
Hailey Bieber has shared a carousel of photographs to mark Jack Blues Bieber’s second birthday, offering one of the more candid looks the couple have given at life with their toddler. The post went up on Instagram on Saturday, alongside a caption that read simply: ‘our sweet baby is 2🩵happy birthday Jack Blues.’Jack was born in August 2024, according to The Independent. He is the first child of Hailey and Justin Bieber, who announced they were expecting in May 2024, not long after renewing their wedding vows. The pair had originally married in a civil ceremony in New York City…
The Carlos Alcaraz dating history is short by celebrity standards and, by his own account, that is largely down to the demands of life on the tour. The world-class Spanish tennis player, who has held the No. 1 ranking in men’s singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals, won two Wimbledon titles and a US Open, has been consistently candid about one thing off the court: finding the right person is genuinely hard when you are never in the same city for more than a fortnight. María González Giménez: the childhood connection The earliest name in the Carlos Alcaraz dating…
Beyond the Entrance Fee: How Family Venues Can Increase Customer Spend Anyone who has ever taken a small child to a soft play centre knows the drill. You pay for entry, you sit down with a lukewarm coffee, and within about four minutes your child has vanished into a ball pit, possibly forever. You settle in for the long haul, resigned to two hours of watching other people’s children have meltdowns over whose turn it is on the slide. Here’s the thing though: that entrance fee you just paid? For most family venues, it barely covers the electricity bill, let…
The name Jason Bard Yarmosky has been on a lot of people’s lips since July 2026, when the Jason Bard Yarmosky Katie Holmes pairing first surfaced in public. Born in 1987 in New York, according to the Tribeca Film Festival, Yarmosky is a contemporary artist whose work spans museums, galleries and public art installations across the United States and beyond.It began, as these things often do, with a photograph. On 10 July, Holmes and Yarmosky were photographed arriving hand in hand at a screening of The Invite, hosted by The Cinema Society in East Hampton. An eyewitness told People that…
Software demonstrations are designed to show a product at its best. Data is tidy, every document is ready and the presenter knows the shortest route through each screen. Mortgage advice businesses work in less controlled conditions. Customers change details, applications pause and staff need to correct mistakes without losing the history of a case. A useful assessment therefore goes beyond appearance. Firms should test whether the platform supports real work, appropriate controls and reliable service when a case does not follow the expected route. Prepare A Test Pack Before Meeting Suppliers Create several fictional scenarios based on the firm’s normal…
The Best Buy anniversary tech deals doing the rounds this week are, by any measure, worth a proper look, discounts on OLED televisions, gaming monitors, laptops, smartwatches and robot lawn mowers, with some prices hitting all-time lows. A fair chunk of the action is tied to Best Buy’s 60th Anniversary Sale, though plenty of the cuts are running on Amazon too. Best Buy Anniversary Tech Deals: The TV Highlights If you’ve been waiting for an excuse to upgrade the living room screen, this is a reasonable moment to stop waiting. The 65-inch Hisense U7SG QLED TV is down to $899.99,…
The Furious Hulu release schedule runs every Monday through to 31 August, and if you have not started the series yet, you are already three episodes behind. The show premiered on 27 July and landed its first three episodes at once, giving it the kind of opening weekend that makes a streaming service very happy.The series has since picked up a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and, according to Wikipedia’s Furious page, earned a score of 81 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 21 critic reviews, a rating the site categorises as indicating universal acclaim. That is not nothing.…
The Soundcore Rave Neo 2 deal currently live at Woot brings the speaker down to $84.99, against a list price of $129.95 and a current Amazon price of around $119. Prime members get free standard shipping; everyone else pays $6. The sale is expected to run for the next ten days, unless stock goes first.Not a bad price for a speaker that is genuinely built to go outside and get on with it.What the Soundcore Rave Neo 2 actually doesThe selling points are fairly practical. A built-in handle means you can carry it from the kitchen to the garden without…
Lifehacker’s best tech deals live blog is updated daily with vetted offers on laptops, TVs, speakers, security cameras and more, and right now some of the standout finds are in the large-screen TV category.The blog, run by shopping editor Daniel Oropeza, uses price-tracking tools to separate deals that are genuinely worth your money from the manufactured urgency that clogs up most sale pages. Bookmark it if you want a running feed of what’s actually worth buying, rather than whatever a retailer’s marketing team decided to badge as a ‘limited time offer’ at 3am.Best Tech Deals Live Blog: What’s Moving on…
The Best Buy 60th Anniversary Sale runs from Monday, 17 August through Sunday, 23 August, with discounts across TVs, laptops, earbuds, robot vacuums and more, and a fresh wave of deals landing on the weekend of 21 to 23 August. Some offers are available online; others require a trip in person.The chain started life in 1966 as a store called Sound of Music. Six decades on, the anniversary sale covers a wide sweep of tech, and on Saturday, 22 August, six in-store-only deals will go live, including one on gift cards, limited to stock on hand.Best Buy 60th Anniversary Sale:…
Claude Gmail automatic sending is now a reality: Anthropic’s AI can compose and fire off emails from your connected Gmail account without you touching the Google client at all. The question is whether you actually want it to.Email admin is a genuine productivity drain. Hours a week, gone. Reading, replying, chasing threads that could have been a two-line message. So when Claude quietly gained the ability to not just read and summarise your inbox but to draft and send replies autonomously, it was worth a proper look.What Claude’s Gmail connector actually doesClaude has supported Google Workspace integrations for some time.…
Apple’s Mac Finder hidden features are far more extensive than most people ever discover, and yet here we all are, just clicking through folders like it’s 2003. Finder has been refined over decades, and underneath its deceptively plain surface sits a set of tools that can genuinely reshape your daily workflow, once you know where to look.Start With the Sidebar and Search SettingsThe Finder sidebar is easy to ignore, but it’s one of the most personalised parts of the whole app. You can drag items to reorder them, drag folders straight into the Favorites section for quick access, and remove…
