The first of JK Rowling’s new wizarding film series is packed with staggering surprises – take this chance to share what you thought of it here It has conjured up an impressive 90% “fresh” rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, making Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them easily one of the year’s best-reviewed mainstream movies so far. But is this first of a whopping five planned...
Warburtons on a roll as it toasts success of Muppets' Christmas ad – The Guardian
Having its ad voted this year’s festive favourite is the latest triumph for the Bolton baker that has risen to become Britain’s second-biggest grocery brandIt’s a long way from Bolton to Hollywood, in more ways than one. But when Jonathan Warburton decided to splash out on a Christmas publicity drive for the family baking business, it was to Los Angeles – and the Disney headquarters – that he...
Cash-starved Patisserie Valerie 'stopped using butter in puff pastry' – The Guardian
New owners say firm back on track after takeover unearthed butter ban, broken ovens and unpaid suppliersPatisserie Valerie’s new owner has laid bare the desperate state of the business it bought in January, including a cost-cutting approach so severe that managers stopped using butter in the cake chain’s puff pastry.The private equity firm that bought the company out of administration for just...
Debenhams tops government's shame list for underpaying staff – The Guardian
Retailers, restaurants and hotels among a record 360 firms named for shortchanging staff by almost £1m The government has named and shamed a record 360 firms for underpaying their staff, with the list of offenders topped by Debenhams after nearly 12,000 of the department store’s workers were short-changed.The businesses, including large numbers of hair salons, hotels, care homes and retailers...
How The Riot Club's Sam Claflin became a Buller boy – The Guardian
The fast-rising British actor talks privilege, poshing up and why The Hunger Games is a valuable political allegoryUnpleasantness abounds in The Riot Club, a gruesome feast of deplorability and a vicious, unbridled portrait of privilege. Goldfish are swallowed, whisky is swigged from condoms, bodily fluids are smeared on furniture. One of the more memorable acts of depravity involves an...
'Passionate and profound': readers on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – The Guardian
We asked you to share your reviews of JK Rowling’s new film centred around Newt Scamander and his magical creatures The 1920s wizarding world spin-off to the Harry Potter series, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, was released on Friday. Set as the first instalment in a series of five films, fans of ‘the boy who lived’ have enjoyed the breath of fresh life that has been injected into the...
Eat Out to Help Out: Cornwall restaurants, pubs and cafés offering meal deals – Cornwall Live
Hundreds of Cornish businesses have signed up for the 50% discount dealMore than 53,000 outlets across the UK have so far signed up to the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme, including several hundred in Cornwall.From Monday (August 3), diners who eat-in will benefit from a 50% discount, up to a maximum of £10 per person, on food and non-alcoholic drinks, any Monday to Wednesday throughout...
Brother Marcus Islington | Restaurants in Angel, London – Time Out London
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Wild Honey St James | Restaurants in St James's, London – Time Out London
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Parrillan | Restaurants in King's Cross, London – Time Out London
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