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".
Juno Temple has called her involvement in Ted Lasso season 4 ‘an absolute honour’, as the show pivots its entire focus to women’s football and the barriers female athletes face. The new season, which premiered on Radio Times confirms began on 5 August 2026, runs to 10 episodes released weekly every Wednesday, with the finale scheduled for 7 October 2026.The setup is a significant departure. After leaving for Kansas City at the end of season three, Ted returns to England to coach the Lady Greyhounds, a new women’s team, while familiar faces like Temple’s Keeley Jones navigate fresh storylines built…
There are Apple Wallet hidden features sitting right under your nose that most people never bother to switch on, and a few of them will genuinely save you the next time your battery dies at the worst possible moment. Here is a proper rundown of the most useful ones, including a couple that are easy to miss in the settings menu. Express Mode and the battery reserve trick worth knowing Express Mode lets you use transit cards, passes, student IDs and compatible keys without waking your iPhone or authenticating with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode. The bit that…
If you’re hunting for shows like Modern Family to fill the gap left by eleven seasons of ensemble sitcom comfort, the options are better than you might think. The family sitcom has become rarer over the past decade or so, but the ones that have landed tend to land properly, and there’s a decent back catalogue to work through.Here’s a run through the best of them, from broad comedies to the sort of drama that will have you crying into your biscuits.The comedies closest to the Modern Family mouldAbbott Elementary (2021–) is probably the sharpest recent heir to the throne.…
The Anker Prime 250W charger (model A2345) is currently on sale for $94.99 at Amazon, down from its regular $149.99, a saving of $55.00. If your desk looks like a cable museum with a different charger for every device you own, this is probably worth a look.The six-port station packs four USB-C and two USB-A ports, with up to 250W of combined output. That’s enough headroom to run a laptop, phone, tablet, earbuds and a couple of other accessories simultaneously without things grinding to a crawl.What the Anker Prime 250W Charger Actually DeliversThe headline spec is the combined 250W total,…
The Henry Cavill Natalie Viscuso relationship has moved from a quietly posted chess photo to a confirmed baby daughter, a Warhammer project at Amazon, and a pair of matching Games Workshop superfans setting up a life together, all while keeping most of it firmly off the public record.They first surfaced in early April 2021, spotted walking Cavill’s dog Kal in London. Days later, Cavill posted the now-famous chess photo: him looking, as he put it, ‘quietly confident shortly before my beautiful and brilliant love Natalie destroys me at chess.’ Viscuso posted the same image with the caption, ‘Just teaching my…
If you are hunting for the perfect Moon Black Mirror companion film to fill the gap between seasons, the 2009 sci-fi feature starring Sam Rockwell is the one that fits most snugly. Same paranoia, same distrust of technology, same slow-burn dread, and an ending that somehow earns a sliver of hope. It does everything the best Black Mirror episodes do, just in feature length. What Moon Is Actually About Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is the sole human inhabitant of a largely automated helium-3 mining facility on the dark side of the Moon. His only company is an AI named GERTY,…
The RayNeo smart glasses launch is confirmed for 4 September, when the company will release two product lines aimed at very different kinds of wearers: the productivity-focused RayNeo iO, and the entertainment-oriented GT series, comprising the GT and the GT Max. Both will be available through RayNeo’s own site and on Amazon, though the company did not confirm official pricing at announcement.That said, Softonic reports expected pricing of around $299 for the GT and $399 for the GT Max. Anyone wanting to see them in person before buying will get the chance: according to TechPowerUp, both lines will be demonstrated…
The Kendall Jenner Jacob Elordi relationship has moved from whispered Coachella sightings to hand-holding outside a West London restaurant in the space of a few months, and the pair have now been photographed together on three continents.It is, by most accounts, the romance Jenner said she was not looking for. In a January 2026 episode of In Your Dreams, she told Owen Thiele she had made a quiet commitment to herself when she turned 29: no active pursuit of relationships, a year of choosing herself. ‘I really wanted to have like a me year,’ she said. Spring had other ideas.How…
The Kylie Jenner Timothée Chalamet relationship has travelled a long road from anonymous parking-lot dates at Tito’s Taco stand in Santa Monica to a very public declaration of love at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards, where Chalamet told a room full of Hollywood’s finest, ‘Thank you to my partner of three years. Thank you for our foundation. I love you. I couldn’t do this without you.’That speech landed in January 2026. Rewind to early 2023 and the picture looked rather different: hushed source quotes to tabloids, Jenner’s Range Rover spotted outside a Beverly Hills home, and two people very much…
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…
