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GuardianOct 9Preview

‘Me and the lads would not survive a day in here’: inside TV’s utterly stunning, Bafta-winning prison drama

The third series of Jimmy McGovern’s breathtaking series Time stars David Tennant – and just be its best ever. We go behind the scenes“I don’t think you would find a young offender institution (YOI) in which stories like these haven’t happened. Seventeen years of age, loads of energy, hormones, bravado – you know they’ll kick off. It must be an absolute nightmare.”Yes, Jimmy McGovern has gone back to prison again. After two series of Time, which told stories from men’s and women’s institutions, he has turned his attention to perhaps the most distressing ones of all. Set in a YOI, it’s full of tales of bad decisions, directionless rage and lost potential at the most vulnerable of ages. If this third series is, as he suggests, the last, it is quite the curtain call. Continue reading...

Gabriel TateTelevisionCulture

GuardianOct 9Preview

Plans for Sydney’s controversial new public square in doubt after NSW government intervention

State planning minister declares project ‘state significant’, wresting approval process away from local councilPlans for a grand new public square in the centre of Sydney are in doubt after the New South Wales planning minister declared the project “state significant”, wresting the approval process away from the City of Sydney.The lord mayor, Clover Moore, released renders in August for the plaza opposite Sydney’s town hall. The design for the space, which the council had expected to be completed by 2031, include a semi-circular clearing projecting eastwards towards Hyde park, with a fountain and a grove of native trees. Continue reading...

Penry BuckleySydneyAustralia news

GuardianOct 8Preview

Thousands turn out to welcome weary USS Lincoln sailors after grueling deployment

Military families admit ‘mixed emotions’ as aircraft carrier finally returns to San Diego after fraught stretch at sea that took severe tollUSS Lincoln arrives at San Diego base – live updatesBy 4am on Thursday, the sky still pitch black, 19-year-old Pvt Grayden Monroe and his mom had already arrived to the naval base in San Diego, California. As the very first military family members to get there, they huddled on a set of metal bleachers overlooking the dark water. The duo were waiting for Monroe’s 21-year-old sister to step off the USS Abraham Lincoln, the embattled aircraft carrier that’s been at sea for the better part of a year.Monroe, a soldier stationed at Fort Campbell, was wearing his army uniform for the occasion. “I hope she’s proud of me,” he said of his sister, “and I hope she knows damn well that I’m just as proud of her.” Continue reading...

Amanda Ulrich in San DiegoUS militaryUS news

GuardianOct 8Preview

French ministers scramble to appease students after 10 days of protests

Education minister promises 3,000 substitute teachers by Tuesday with schools still blockaded across FranceHigh school students have again blockaded schools and marched through cities across France, promising to continue their campaign against the poor state of the national education system in the 10th day of protests that have left hundreds injured.Large crowds took to the streets on Thursday for mainly peaceful demonstrations in cities including Lille, Rennes, Nantes, Lyon, Toulon and Marseille, while in Paris a large procession marched through the city centre to the Place de la Bastille. Continue reading...

Jon Henley in ParisFranceProtest

GuardianOct 8Preview

Thousands march in Madrid after death of evicted pensioner Maricarmen

Rally to remember woman, 87, whose rent battle with investment firm triggered nationwide protests over housing crisisAbout 20,000 people took part in a march through the centre of Madrid on Thursday evening in memory of María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her flat in the capital a fortnight before her death triggered mass protests over Spain’s housing crisis.The pensioner, whose flat had been bought by an investment firm that sought to increase her rent by 230%, had become the public face of the crisis before her death in hospital on Wednesday night. Continue reading...

Sam Jones and Ashifa Kassam in MadridSpainEurope