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".
Labour Day VPN deals are live now, running through Monday, 7 September, and this year’s crop is as competitive as anything you’d find on Black Friday. ExpressVPN, Surfshark, and NordVPN are out front with the deepest cuts, but IPVanish and Norton are worth a look depending on what you actually need from a VPN. Back-to-school season drives a substantial chunk of annual VPN subscriptions, which is exactly why providers time their biggest promotions around now. Sign up during a Labour Day promotion and your discounted rate stays locked in for the entire subscription period, so getting the timing right genuinely…
The ChatGPT Work login feature is now rolling out to Plus, Pro and Business subscribers, letting the AI agent sign into websites on your behalf, but a hands-on test reveals it is slower and more awkward than it sounds, and the security picture carries a few wrinkles worth understanding before you hand over your accounts.The pitch, as OpenAI frames it, is straightforward enough. If it is something you would normally have to open a browser and click through yourself, try asking ChatGPT Work to do it. Setting up utilities, booking a doctor’s appointment, cancelling rescheduled travel, those are the official…
Amazon’s Labor Day tech deals are live now, running through Monday, 7 September, with cuts across headphones, televisions, gaming monitors, soundbars, and home appliances. Wayfair and Home Depot had already kicked things off a day earlier, but Amazon’s spread is wide enough to warrant a proper look.Below is a breakdown of the standout offers, with a few things worth knowing before you hand over your card details.Amazon Labor Day Tech Deals: TelevisionsThe headline TV offer is the 65-inch LG C6 OLED at £1,499.99 (down from $2,699.99), which is its lowest recorded price. On top of that, Amazon drops a $150…
Travis Kelce has spoken at length about the Travis Kelce Taylor Swift wedding for the first time in detail, breaking down everything from the no-phone policy to why Madison Square Garden was the venue of choice, during the season premiere of the New Heights podcast.The 3 July ceremony has been the subject of intense speculation since the couple tied the knot, but it was on the podcast (which Kelce co-hosts with his brother Jason) that the pair finally sat down and unpicked the night properly. Travis had briefly touched on the nuptials at a Kansas City Chiefs training camp press…
The DEF CON 2026 anti-surveillance gadgets on show in Las Vegas this year ranged from a $10 DIY chip that sniffs out Flock cameras to a free web tool that scans your phone for spyware without tipping off whoever planted it. Here is a proper look at the ones worth knowing about. Why Flock cameras are the story behind the story A lot of what landed at DEF CON this year circles back to one piece of infrastructure: Flock Safety’s automated licence plate reading (ALPR) cameras. According to Mother Jones, Flock Safety has more than 80,000 cameras spread throughout the…
Death of the Pastor’s Wife, now streaming on Netflix, tells the story of Mica Miller, a 30-year-old woman whose body was found in a North Carolina state park in April 2024 and whose death was ruled a suicide. The three-part documentary has arrived with a lot of questions still unanswered, and one man at the centre of them: John-Paul Miller, the pastor she married and later tried to leave. It is not comfortable viewing. But it has drawn considerable attention, not least because the legal story is still very much unfolding. Who was Mica Miller, and what happened to her?…
If you’re hunting for shows to watch after Reacher, you’re not alone. TV Guide, citing Nielsen data, reported that Reacher was the most-streamed show of any kind in early March 2025. Season 4, which adapts the novel Gone Tomorrow, premiered on 12 August 2026 after a 17-month wait since season 3 concluded, according to Entertainment Weekly. The eight-episode run wraps with the finale, ‘Cut’, on 16 September 2026. So if you’ve already burned through it and you’re staring at your screen looking for the next thing, here are ten series that scratch a similar itch. Shows to Watch After Reacher:…
The Lesbian Space Princess film, a barely animated 2025 Australian movie that almost nobody outside its home country had heard of, has become the unlikely glue holding fractured online fandoms together, simply by being, in the collective judgment of the internet, spectacularly bad.Written and directed by Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese, the film follows Princess Saira from the planet Clitopolis in her battle against the Straight White Maliens. It holds a 98% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience, however, has other views, and that gap between critical praise and popular reaction is exactly what set the whole thing…
The Labor Day sale deals are already moving, and if you’re shopping for appliances, tech, or bedding, the window runs until 8 September (the day after the holiday itself) when most of the action winds down.Labor Day, a federal holiday in the United States since 1894 according to the U.S. Department of Labor via PageCrawl.io, has long doubled as a retail event. The long weekend gives retailers a convenient hook for shifting stock as summer ends and the new school year beds in.Where the Labor Day Sale Deals Are Actually Worth Your AttentionNot everything marked down is a genuine bargain.…
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…
