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UK actors send firm message over AI usage

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The Independent UK

Film and TV actors prepared to strike over AI concerns

More than 7,700 actors, stunt performers and dancers were balloted

The Independent UK

These are the 24 best Christmas gifts for coffee lovers, chosen by a coffee fanatic

Browse our guide to the best gifts for coffee lovers you can buy this year and give that caffeine addict in your life the best present ever

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Olivia Williams says actors need ‘nudity rider’-type controls for AI body scans

Dune star says performers are regularly pressed to have bodies scanned on set with few rights over how data is used

The Guardian - UK

If someone gave me this gorgeous coffee advent calendar as a gift I'd be so impressed – it features a different speciality coffee for every day of December

You can pick from the ground or whole bean version

Ideal Home

50 Medical Memes That Are Painfully True

What are the best and worst parts of working in medicine?

Bored Panda

Equity responds to Trump’s film tariff and says it is ‘industrial action ready’

Earlier in the month the US president said he had authorised a 100% tariff on films ‘produced in foreign lands’.

The Independent UK

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‘It’s soul-destroying’: actors’ fury over the rise of self-tape auditions

Equity union says filming audition scenes at home amounts to unpaid labour and reinforces elitism

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Bolt gloats as News Corp columnists delight in Donald Trump’s victory

‘Good riddance to woke,’ Peta Credlin says, while Tim Blair urges country to ‘Drill, Australia. Drill’

The Guardian - AU

Beer, biscuits and … tools: 2024 Advent calendars – tried and tested

From spices to seeds, coffee to candles, we opened the doors of some of this year’s more inventive countdown-to-Christmas offerings – with varying results

The Guardian - UK

Best coffee advent calendars for a perfectly caffeinated Christmas countdown

Put a pep in your step with a daily cup of quality Joe

The Independent UK

‘Survive to 2025’: UK TV production firms fight to stay afloat in slump

Indies pin hopes on recovery as cash-strapped broadcasters slash commissioning, sending revenues plunging by £400m

The Guardian - UK

UK TV production sector income falls by £400m as programming budgets cut

Revenue plunges as cash-strapped broadcasters spend less on commissioning amid ad slump and shift to streaming

The Guardian - UK

Cop Who Dodged Sentence for Killing Sex Worker Gets 11 Years for Abducting More Sex Workers

The victims received no restitution payment.

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The Guardian - UK

Creative industries get budget boost including £26m for National Theatre

Chancellor also announces tax relief measures to encourage film-makers to shoot more movies in Britain

Chicago Sun-Times

My Chicago high school paid for college. It’s a model for other community scholarship programs

Getting into college isn’t the hardest part of the journey, a North Lawndale College Prep graduate writes. Black students need more help figuring out how to pay for it.

International Business Times UK

Will the Autumn Statement Tax Relief and the Media Bill Boost the UK Creative Industries?

The UK government has announced VFX tax relief to boost the UK film and television industry in the Autumn Statement, which, along with the Media Bill, seeks to change how TV shows are made and broadcasted in the UK.

The Hindu

Activists write to Home Minister to take more steps to implement ban on non-green firecrackers

Members of citizen activist groups The Compassionate City and PACT (Public Health Action) have written to Home Minister G. Parameshwara urging him to take more steps to successfully implement the ban on non-green firecrackers ahead of Deepavali, the month of Karthika, Christmas, and New Year celebrations.

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The Guardian - UK

Over 100,000 children in England and Wales have parent in prison, analysis shows

Record comes as Estonia confirms it is in talks with UK over plans to accept British prisoners amid overcrowding crisis

Birmingham Post

North East's indie TV and film production companies offered help through bootcamp scheme

A partnership between North East Screen and national membership organisation Pact launched this week

Evening Standard

Best Nespresso compatible pods and capsules for great coffee every time

Broaden your horizons beyond Nespresso own-brand

The Independent UK

Floella Benjamin warns British children’s TV could ‘disappear from screens’

Baroness Benjamin was formerly a presenter on Play School.

The Independent UK

Project helping women in prison stay in contact with children gets funding boost

Women inmates from Wales have to serve out their sentences in England.

The National (Scotland)

Channel 4 won’t be sold off – but concerns raised about Tories’ ‘reforms’

THE publicly owned broadcaster Channel 4 will not be sold to private interests, the UK Government has confirmed – but there have been concerns…

The Independent UK

Government move to let Channel 4 make content prompts concern from indie sector

Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan confirmed the Government has scrapped plans to privatise the broadcaster.

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