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 TP-Link Deco BE14000 deal currently running on Amazon cuts the two-pack of the Deco 7 Pro BE14000 Wi-Fi 7 whole-home mesh system to $359.99, down from its usual $499.99. Price trackers confirm that is the lowest recorded price for the two-pack, and the saving works out to $140.It is not the sort of hardware that usually gets this kind of markdown, so if you have been putting off upgrading your home network, this is probably the moment to stop doing that.What the TP-Link Deco BE14000 deal gets youThe two-pack is rated to cover up to 6,000 square feet and…
Widow’s Bay season 2 is confirmed, the writers’ room is already at work, and the show just made Emmy history, so there is rather a lot to catch up on. Here is everything currently known, with spoilers for season 1 ahead. Fourteen Emmys and a Broken Record The show collected 14 awards at the 2026 Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor, Outstanding Supporting Actor, and Outstanding Supporting Actress. According to Extra, that haul broke the record for a comedy series in a single season, surpassing the 13 wins The Studio claimed the previous year. The breadth of the…
Using a public-record API can spare your product team the chore of harvesting data one site at a time from hundreds of government portals. Having access to an endpoint, though, does not in itself mean the data behind it suits the workflow you have in mind. You can wire the integration up perfectly and still ship a product that cannot answer simple questions. Is every jurisdiction you need actually included? Does one result stand for a person, a property, a filing or an event? What is the update date really telling you? Can a returned record be traced back to…
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…
