Man charged over cross-border terror plot denied bail pred 2 urama in 57 minutami Connor Pollock, 38, from Croob Park, in Ballynahinch, Co Down, appeared via videolink from HMP Maghaberry for a bail hearing on Thursday.(London News)
Crown court backlog nears 80,000 in new record pred 3 urami in 1 minuto Data published on Thursday showed the open caseload was 79,619 at the end of September, up from 78,329 at the end of June.(London News)
Man sues Tennessee county after he was jailed over meme related to Charlie Kirk killing pred 3 urami in 8 minutami Lawsuit alleges that Larry Bushart’s first amendment rights were violated when he was arrested and jailed for 37 daysA former law enforcement officer in Tennessee is suing his county and sheriff after he was jailed for more than a month for posting a meme on Facebook related to the 10 September assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.According to the new 30-page lawsuit filed this week, 10 days after Kirk’s killing, Larry Bushart, 61, shared a post in the comments of a Facebook post about a vigil for Kirk in Perry county, Tennessee. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Waterloo Road actor William Rush dies aged 31 pred 3 urami in 10 minutami Rush also starred in Grange Hill and Vera, and was the son of Coronation Street star Debbie Rush.(BBC News)
‘Why isn’t everyone talking about Domhnall Gleeson?’ Irish actor wins first Hollywood award pred 3 urami in 14 minutami The US-Ireland Alliance will give the actor the Oscar Wilde award at the event’s 20th anniversary in Los Angeles in MarchAfter a varied career in which he has played a psychopath, a romcom heart-throb, an intergalactic warlord and a plucky newspaper editor among others, Domhnall Gleeson has won his first Hollywood award.The US-Ireland Alliance announced that Gleeson will receive the Oscar Wilde award at the event’s 20th anniversary in Los Angeles in March in the run-up to the Oscars. It honours a body of work rather than a particular performance. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI pred 3 urami in 18 minutami Equity says vote signals strong opposition to AI use and readiness to disrupt productions unless protections are securedActors have voted to refuse digital scanning to prevent their likeness being used by artificial intelligence in a pushback against AI in the arts.Members of the performing arts union Equity were asked if they would refuse to be scanned while on set, a common practice in which actors’ likeness is captured for future use – with 99% voting in favour of the move. Continue reading...(The Guardian)