Monday, September 28
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 Anker Prime 3-in-1 charging station is currently down to $134.98 on Amazon, reduced from its original $229.99 price, a saving of $95.01, or just over 41% off. If your bedside table has quietly become a graveyard of Apple cables, this is the kind of purchase that sorts it out in one go.The station charges an iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods simultaneously, all without a cable in sight. The magnetic charging surface supports the Qi2.2 standard and delivers up to 25 watts. According to Anker, it can bring a compatible iPhone to 50% in under half an hour, though the…
The Hisense U8QG Mini-LED deal currently running on Amazon takes the 75-inch model down to $1,249.99, from a listed price of $1,697.99, a saving of $448 or roughly 26%. If you have a bright living room where a less powerful screen goes visibly flat by mid-afternoon, this is the kind of discount that makes a higher-spec panel worth the conversation.The U8QG is built around a 4K Mini-LED panel with local dimming. Hisense rates the 75-inch model for up to 5,000 nits of peak brightness, and when PCMag reviewed the 65-inch version it measured around 3,200 nits in real-world conditions. Both…
The Celine Dion Paris comeback that fans had waited years for finally happened at the Plenitude Arena on Saturday, with Dion taking the stage in a custom dusty pink shredded-organza embroidered cape over an embroidered cutout dress, finished with black pointed pumps, a look personally designed by Sarah Burton at Givenchy.Burton, who has been at the helm of Givenchy since 2024 and made her official debut there in 2025, created the ensemble for the opening night of what Vogue describes as a 26-night Paris residency, Dion’s first full concerts in more than six years. Romantic, theatrical, and precisely right for…
The UK arm of ÜNLÜ & Co, UNLU Securities UK Limited, has widened the scope of its regulatory permissions with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and is to trade going forward as UNLU Merchant Bank Limited. This enlarged platform will add to what the Group can deliver in London and reinforce the position of ÜNLÜ & Co as a bridge between Türkiye and international financial markets. LONDON – As it marks 30 years in business, ÜNLÜ & Co, the foremost investment services and asset management group in Türkiye, is beginning a fresh stage of international expansion. With its regulatory permissions…
The Brad Pitt Ines de Ramon relationship has moved, over nearly three years, from a low-key Bono concert appearance to World Cup stands, red carpets, and a Taylor Swift wedding, and as of July 2026, the pair are still very much going strong.De Ramon keeps a deliberately quiet public profile, which suits Pitt fine. Since his 2016 divorce from Angelina Jolie, he has not spoken publicly about the women he has dated. What has emerged about de Ramon has come largely through photographs and the occasional source speaking to outlets including People and Entertainment Tonight.Who Is Ines de Ramon?De Ramon…
The De Beers Homo Faber 2026 collaboration is among the most talked-about moments of a September cultural calendar that stretches from Venice to New York, with fashion month providing the backdrop for a run of exhibitions, installations and partnerships worth your attention.De Beers Homo Faber 2026 and Botswana’s Weaving TraditionsDe Beers is continuing its support of Homo Faber, this year with a celebration of Botswana’s weaving traditions at the Venice showcase. Master basket weaver Shakunona Parata, who is based in Botswana, will demonstrate her practice live alongside “Diware”, a new sculptural work created with Beullah Serema and Peter Mabeo of…
The autumn 2025 books to read list has landed, and it is properly stacked, Booker longlists, a Miss Marple revival, and a dystopian electricity thief are all competing for your attention before the nights draw in.Good news for anyone who treats September as a kind of personal new year: this season’s literary releases are among the most anticipated in years, with heavyweight names arriving in quick succession from now through to October.Emma Cline returns with Switzy, and a Booker longlistingIt has been a decade since Emma Cline’s debut The Girls landed her firmly on the literary map, and the intervening…
The Families Stone sequel is in development at Searchlight Pictures, according to Deadline, with most of the original cast set to return nearly 21 years after the 2005 film arrived in cinemas that December.It is, by any measure, a lot of people coming back to a house they know well. Whether that makes for a comfortable Christmas or an absolute nightmare is, of course, the whole point.What The Families Stone Sequel Is AboutThe new film picks up 20 years after the death of Sybil Stone, the family matriarch. Craig T. Nelson’s Kelly Stone has fallen in love again and has…
The DVF Awards Venice 2026 ceremony on 3 September became something more than a glittering festival fixture the moment Gloria Steinem died the day before it took place. Diane von Furstenberg, receiving guests barefoot on a chaise lounge in the Palazzo Brandolini (the Grand Canal catching the last of the afternoon light outside) had already decided whom the night belonged to.Steinem died on 2 September 2026 in New York at the age of 92, according to B-EMPIRE Magazine. When a phone call interrupted von Furstenberg’s morning to raise the question of how prominently Steinem’s name would appear in the evening’s…
The Monse spring summer 2027 collection arrived last night as something more than a seasonal show: it was the first time in ten years that Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia had the creative bandwidth to pour everything into a single brand. The venue matched the ambition, the towering glass penthouse of the former Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg, New York, styled by Alex White.Tulips were the starting point. Not tulips as they appear in any garden centre, but tulips as they existed during Tulipmania, the 17th-century Dutch episode in which newly introduced bulb prices soared to extraordinary heights before collapsing…
If you have exhausted your Office re-watches and are casting around for what comes next, David Brent: Life on the Road is the answer. The film, which picks up Brent’s story Rotten Tomatoes notes is set 12 years after the original series, does everything a good spin-off should: it takes a character you already know, strips away the context that defined him, and sees what is left.For anyone who came to the UK original through the American version, or who watched both in sequence, David Brent will be a familiar but slightly sharper presence than Michael Scott. A bit less…
The Amazon Fire HD 10 deal currently live on Amazon brings the tablet to a record low price of $76.99, exactly half its standard price of $154.99. That is a saving of $78, and it applies to the version that displays lock-screen ads.It is not the flashiest device in Amazon’s tablet range, and nobody is pretending otherwise. But for under $80, it covers a lot of ground: streaming, casual gaming, browsing, reading, podcasts, music. If those are your use cases and you are already in the Amazon ecosystem, it is difficult to argue with the maths here.What the Amazon Fire…
