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In her statement, Connie outlined this is the turning point in their heartbreaking decision, saying: "We are truly devastated to say that following the most recent MRI scan of Charlie's muscles ... as Charlie's devoted and loving parents we have decided that it's no longer in Charlie's best interests to pursue treatment and we will let our son go and be with the angels." … [Read more...] about Charlie Gard’s mum says he won’t live to see his 1st birthday as parents END court battle to save son and blame Great Ormond St for not letting him fly to US for treatment

People entering from countries deemed high-risk — currently most of the world outside Europe, as well as Luxembourg and parts of northern Spain — are required to quarantine for 14 days unless they can present a negative test result no more than two days old. … [Read more...] about ‘If we need to take action we will not hesitate’: Rishi Sunak warns travellers amid fears FRANCE could be the next holiday destination to face UK curbs due to rising coronavirus cases

People entering from countries deemed high-risk — currently most of the world outside Europe, as well as Luxembourg and parts of northern Spain — are required to quarantine for 14 days unless they can present a negative test result no more than two days old. … [Read more...] about Fears for thousands of holidays on the continent as travel experts warn France ‘is highly likely’ to be added to the 14-day quarantine list following a dramatic rise in coronavirus infections

Maclean creates a gallery of startling grotesques for Silas and Jay to run into, and in a lesser film these would be lazy episodic sketches there to pad the film’s substance. Maclean makes each one count, and take the movie forward. There is Payne himself, rather dandyishly attired in a big trapper’s fur and always warily assessing Silas’s threat level. There is Werner (Andrew Robertt), an apparently liberal European expatriate pioneer who befriends Jay and to whom Maclean gives a fantastically duplicitous speech about settlers exterminating indigenous Americans while patronisingly mythologising their culture. Jay surreally comes across some African musicians and has a brief, thoughtful, almost Jarmuschian exchange with them in French. … [Read more...] about Slow West review – trails and tribulation on a violent emotional journey

But they are preceded to Big Whiskey by a larger-than-life, gun-toting dandy called English Bob (Richard Harris), accompanied by a bespectacled dime novelist, V.W. Beauchamp (Saul Rubinck) who is recording his memoirs for posterity. Surrounded by a nervous posse of young deputies, the middle-aged Daggett disarms Bob and with a sadistic glee destroys him physically and mentally as an example to others. Reversing the old Marxist formula, the cruel farce of Daggett's encounter with English Bob is repeated in the tragedy of his final meeting with Munny. … [Read more...] about Unforgiven – review