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".
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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…
Netflix’s September 2026 highlights arrive heavy on documentaries, live sport, and a docudrama starring Russell Crowe, giving subscribers plenty to get through before the nights draw in properly. Raygun, Mr. T and the return of Turning Point The Untold sports documentary strand opens September with two very different subjects. First up is Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly (1 Sept.), focusing on Raygun, the Australian Olympic breakdancer who went viral globally during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, according to FACT Magazines. Whether you found her performance mesmerising or baffling, the documentary is almost certainly going to be appointment viewing. The following week,…
Google Wallet’s Touchless ID feature has quietly become one of the most useful things on your Android phone, and a June 2026 expansion means Google Wallet Touchless ID now works at 65 airports across the United States, covering passengers flying with any of the more than 100 airlines that participate in TSA PreCheck. That’s a big step up from where this started. But the passport trick is only one of a stack of features most people walk past every day.Here’s what the app can actually do when you dig past the tap-to-pay basics.Google Wallet Touchless ID: What Changed and Why…
The Google Pixel 11 tips worth knowing go well beyond the spec sheet. Google’s latest series (covering the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold) lands running Android Central-confirmed Android 17 alongside a stack of Pixel-exclusive software features, with much of the heavy lifting done by AI. Here’s what to go looking for first.The AI Engine Underneath: Gemini IntelligenceBefore diving into individual features, it helps to understand what’s powering them. The Pixel Case confirmed in May 2026 that Gemini Intelligence is the Pixel 11 generation’s headline AI system, capable of multi-step autonomous tasks,…
