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Scottish Sun
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
The best man versus food-style challenges in UK restaurants from world's hottest curry to 96oz steak
If you beat the record of one challenge you could win £5k ALL YOU CAN EAT ALL YOU CAN EAT The best man versus food-style challenges in UK restaurants from world's hottest curry to 96oz steak Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) EVERYONE enjoys a meal out - but some love pushing themselves just that bit more with a food challenge. There are countless restaurants and chains daring customers to stuff their stomachs for both kudos and cash prizes. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 9 We've rounded up eight of the best food challenges across the UK Credit: Getty But where are the best ones worth giving a go across the UK? We've rounded up eight that will push you to the limit. Bunny Jackson's Hot Wings Challenge 9 Bunny Jackson's hot wings challenge is notorious Credit: Bunny Jackson's Bunny Jackson's in Manchester is famous for its "Hotter Than The Sun" hot wings challenge. Customers have five minutes to scoff 10 wings covered in the restaurant's iconic hot sauce, for £20 a head. Win or lose, you'll get a free t-shirt and, as Bunny Jackson's put it, will "probably cry" too. The challenge is so fierce, under 18s have to accompanied by an adult and can't do it at all after 4pm. The Kismot Killer 9 The Kismot Killer curry is allegedly the hottest curry in the world Credit: Kismot Kismot in Edinburgh runs its "Kismot Killer" challenge - so notorious it has reportedly hospitalised two who have taken part and comes with a legal disclaimer. It has even made an appearance on A League of their Own, leaving the panellists sweating buckets. The challenge involves five of the world's hottest chillies mixed into a sauce which is then served up. It currently costs £40 to take part but complete it and you'll get the curry for free. Red Dog Saloon Burger Challenge 9 Professional competitive eater Leah Shutkever has completed this challenge Credit: Red Dog Red Dog Saloon has restaurants across England, including in Southampton, Liverpool and London. Customers feeling daring can take part in its Burger Eating contest which costs £50 to enter. Participants have 10 minutes to polish off as many burgers as possible and prizes are dependant on the number eaten. Neck three and you'll get a Red Dog baseball cap, but down 10 and you'll get a £1,000 cash prize. Beat the current record set by professional competitive eater Leah Shutkever (12) and you'll receive £5,000. Greasy Pig The Paralyser 9 Fans of a fry up should take on this challenge Credit: Instagram / greasypigleeds The Greasy Pig in Leeds' "The Paralyser" challenge sees customers faced with a £22 mound of fried breakfast items. Eaters have to chug down four pieces of bacon, four sausages, four eggs, four hash browns, four toast, mushrooms, tomatoes and a tub of beans. Finish it in under 13 minutes and the whole meal is free. But you may want to spend the rest of the day on the sofa after completing it. Pattersons' Quadruple Bipass Burger Challenge 9 Pattersons' burger challenge is not for the faint-hearted Credit: Patterson's This challenge, as the name hints at, is not one to be taken lightly. Run by Pattersons in Liverpool, customers pay £20 and have 20 minutes to down a mound of food. You'll have to finish off two burger patties, hash browns, bacon, sliced cheese, two thick slices of goats cheese and one block of cheddar. That's not all either, as there are also four onion rings, four pieces of fried chicken, a bucket of coleslaw and a pile of fries to eat. Complete the challenge and you'll get the cost of the meal paid for you. Tank and Paddle's Dude vs Dough 9 This simple but might food challenge is perfect for Italian food lovers Credit: Tank & Paddle Tank and Paddle has two locations across London where customers can take part in its "Dude vs Dough" challenge. You have to finish off a yard long flatbread pizza and tray of mac and cheese within 15 minutes. It'll set you back £20 to take part but win and you'll get a £50 bar tab - not a bad way to celebrate. Slattery's Chocolate Challenge 9 Slattery's chocolate challenge is one of the easier ones to complete on our list Credit: Slattery Slattery's in Manchester runs the perfect challenge for sweet-toothed customers. The Chocolate Challenge costs £25 to take part in and requires you to down the following: American style Chocolate Fudge Cake with chocolate ice cream, a portion of Fresh Cream, two chocolate pots filled with liquid chocolate sauce and a glass of hot chocolate. Anyone who polishes off the mound of sugary goodness gets a Slattery chocolate medal and 100g box of handmade chocolates. However, you must complete the challenge by yourself. The Ashville 96oz Steak Challenge 9 Think you can polish off a giant 96oz steak? Try this challenge in Bristol Credit: The Ashville Steakhouse Fancy yourself as a bit of a meat-lover? Then this giant steak challenge might be one for you. The Ashville Steakhouse in Bristol charges £50 for a 96oz T-bone steak served with six different sides, five of which are your choice. You'll have just an hour to complete the challenge. Manage this, and you'll get the entire meal for free as well as, of course, bragging rights among your family and friends. Do you have a money problem that needs sorting? Get in touch by emailing money-sm@ Plus, you can join our Sun Money Chats and Tips Facebook group to share your tips and stories
RNZ News
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Dogs, pigs and birds - one of Australia's leading Film Trainers
Luke Hura has built a successful career in the film industry doing something that people generally advise against. working with animals. For over 40 years, Luke Hura has coaxed screen worthy performances out of pigs, birds, dogs, and even cats. His furry, fluffy and feathery charges have appeared in films such as Red Dog and television series well known to Kiwi audiences like Kath & Kim , The Flying Doctors and McLeod's Daughters . One of Australia's leading Animal Film Trainers, Luke also trains animals for the stage ... where they literally have to be one-take wonders. Photo: Supplied by Luke Hura
Perth Now
12-06-2025
- General
- Perth Now
Bunbury's ‘dingo at the harbour' Marley has died
After touching many hearts, Bunbury's 'dingo at the harbour' Marley died at the weekend, aged 15. Born sometime in 2010 on a mine-site in the Pilbara, Marley was found as an orphan with two other pups — their mother dead after being hit by a vehicle. Marley was the only of the three to survive, taken in by a worker who had the pup join him on site as he grew. The worker took Marley home to his farm in Harvey, where his mischievous and playful nature with the golden Labrador in the movie Marley and Me his namesake. He spent the next three years on the farm, stealing shoes, chewing on all the wrong things and doing what mischievous dogs do. In 2013, Marley and his rescuer moved Casurina Boat Harbour, living onboard an old navy vessel from World War II. Tributes flow for Marley, Bunbury's 'dingo at the harbour'. Credit: Gwen Jaram / Facebook Over time, Marley began to explore his surroundings roaming the Bunbury Outer Harbour area where people noticed him and word spread of 'the dingo at the harbour'. However in 2022, Marley and his rescuer moved to a yard in the Australind industrial area — a change Marley was not happy with. Spending his days pacing, howling and whining about being away from his territory, the man who rescued Marley from the Pilbara more than a decade prior, made the decision to return Marley to his home at the Bunbury Outer Harbour. Over the next few years, people's love for Marley grew, setting up a feeding station for the pooch, giving him fresh water daily and giving him 'dens' across the harbour for when the weather turned. In a post shared to Facebook on Tuesday night, Marine Rescue Bunbury shared the news Marley died on June 8, 2025. The crew said the pup was 'truly loved'. 'He was a regular at Marine Rescue Bunbury where we looked out for him,' the post said. 'We even named our latest rescue vessel after him — Dingo Marley. 'If anyone was concerned for Marley's welfare, we were often the first point of contact and would ensure necessary action was taken.' The post said Marley's remains would be cremated, with thousands passing on their sympathy for the community's immense loss — and calling for a statue in his honour. 'To all that loved him, he was our Red Dog', community members said while sharing the way Marley brought them joy amid rough seas.
West Australian
11-06-2025
- General
- West Australian
After touching many hearts, Bunbury's ‘dingo at the harbour' Marley has died
After touching many hearts, Bunbury's 'dingo at the harbour' Marley died at the weekend, aged 15. Born sometime in 2010 on a mine-site in the Pilbara, Marley was found as an orphan with two other pups — their mother dead after being hit by a vehicle. Marley was the only of the three to survive, taken in by a worker who had the pup join him on site as he grew. The worker took Marley home to his farm in Harvey, where his mischievous and playful nature with the golden Labrador in the movie Marley and Me his namesake. He spent the next three years on the farm, stealing shoes, chewing on all the wrong things and doing what mischievous dogs do. In 2013, Marley and his rescuer moved Casurina Boat Harbour, living onboard an old navy vessel from World War II. Over time, Marley began to explore his surroundings roaming the Bunbury Outer Harbour area where people noticed him and word spread of 'the dingo at the harbour'. However in 2022, Marley and his rescuer moved to a yard in the Australind industrial area — a change Marley was not happy with. Spending his days pacing, howling and whining about being away from his territory, the man who rescued Marley from the Pilbara more than a decade prior, made the decision to return Marley to his home at the Bunbury Outer Harbour. Over the next few years, people's love for Marley grew, setting up a feeding station for the pooch, giving him fresh water daily and giving him 'dens' across the harbour for when the weather turned. In a post shared to Facebook on Tuesday night, Marine Rescue Bunbury shared the news Marley died on June 8, 2025. The crew said the pup was 'truly loved'. 'He was a regular at Marine Rescue Bunbury where we looked out for him,' the post said. 'We even named our latest rescue vessel after him — Dingo Marley. 'If anyone was concerned for Marley's welfare, we were often the first point of contact and would ensure necessary action was taken.' The post said Marley's remains would be cremated, with thousands passing on their sympathy for the community's immense loss — and calling for a statue in his honour. 'To all that loved him, he was our Red Dog', community members said while sharing the way Marley brought them joy amid rough seas.
The Guardian
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘I'll tackle Rox if he tries to go to Egypt': Richard Roxburgh, Peter Greste and 400 days in a Cairo prison
Richard Roxburgh would like to take this opportunity to apologise to audiences about to watch The Correspondent: 'There is no escape from my face. For the entire sentence of the movie.' The audience's 'sentence' lasts just under two hours – but for the film's subject, Australian war correspondent Peter Greste, his sentence was seven years in an Egyptian jail. In some ways, though, it was really a life sentence: despite walking free in 2015, Greste remains, by decree of a kangaroo court in Cairo, a convicted terrorist. On a recent flight from New York back to Australia via Auckland, immigration officials refused to let him progress to the transit lounge. 'Just Google me,' he suggested. It took calls to Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to get him home. Wanting to portray Greste's harrowing, Kafkaesque experience in the Egyptian legal system, the film's director, Kriv Stenders (Red Dog, Australia Day), put Roxburgh through what the actor describes as feeling like a social experiment; he is in every frame of every scene in the film. The shoot was relentless. 'It was only something like six weeks – but it felt like Peter's 400 days,' Roxburgh says, referring to what Greste describes as the 'suspiciously round number' of days he was incarcerated. Roxburgh, 62, is more than a decade older than Greste was when he was sent by Al Jazeera to cover the Muslim Brotherhood uprising in Egypt in 2013, for what was initially meant to be a two-week assignment. The age disparity was one of the reasons Roxburgh – whose unforgettable roles include uncanny reincarnations of Bob Hawke (in Hawke in 2010, then The Crown a decade later) and Roger Rogerson (Blue Murder, 1995) – decided not to impersonate Greste. 'Is it weird having me here?' Greste once asked him, during pre-production. 'I'm not trying to embody you,' Roxburgh replied. 'The idea of seeing a character actor of Rox's calibre trying to be me was kind of scary,' Greste says now. 'I was worried that I'd see some kind of weird verbal tick that he picked up, that I had never noticed … so it was hugely liberating when he told me that. It meant I could just let him get on with the business of trying to translate my experience on to the screen.' Greste's experience began when military police knocked on his hotel room door four days before Christmas in 2013. This was his harrowing entry into a corrupt and intensely political legal and penal system, where his work as a journalist was condemned in a Cairo court for bringing Egypt's reputation into international disrepute. The US$1,500 confiscated from his hotel safe (per diems for the assignment) was presented as evidence that he was funding a terrorist organisation outlawed by the Hazem Al Beblawi government eight days prior to his arrest. Part courtroom drama, part prison drama, The Correspondent takes its audience beyond the nightly news bulletins most Australians became familiar with throughout 2014; the most enduring vision of that time being Greste's white knuckled fingers clutching the wire of his courtroom cage. For audiences who have not read Greste's own account of his 400-day ordeal, Freeing Peter, it is the drama and humour within the prison walls that provides much of the compelling detail beyond the headlines. In the film, relations between Greste and his two Al Jazeera colleagues, Mohamed Fahmy (played by Julian Maroun) and Baher Mohamed (Rahel Romahn) become increasingly fraught as alliances shift and their legal strategies begin to conflict. Who said what about whom during separate interrogation sessions? When does a hunger strike become the ultimate course of action? In the film, comic relief also intersperses the tedium and the trauma: how is it possible for one man (Baher) to win every single backgammon game with the throw of the dice (in a Cairo prison, that's pumpkin seeds)? Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion 'Fahmy had a very, very different worldview from me, and a very different understanding of what we were going through,' Greste says. 'It was important that his view was articulated on screen. I wanted people to recognise him and, even if they didn't necessarily agree with it, to understand where he was coming from.' The Australian government and its diplomatic corps are portrayed as somewhat less effective than they may have been in reality, both Greste and Roxburgh concede – although it was the Latvian government's intervention, with the might of Brussels behind it (Greste is a joint Australian-Latvian citizen) that ultimately saw Greste released in 2015, to serve out the rest of his seven-year sentence on home soil (a sentence the Australian government chose not to impose). Egyptian-British activist and political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah's role in Greste's psychological survival is also portrayed faithfully, he says. Scheduled for release last September, Abd el-Fattah remains incarcerated today, his sentence extended without explanation by Egyptian authorities until January 2027. Both he and his mother are now on hunger strike, action Greste also participated in for 21 days this January as a show of support. 'The hunger strike is the last tool of the powerless,' he says. 'If you've lost everything else, the one thing you've got agency over is your own body.' The Correspondent is a gripping drama, but the subtext of journalism under assault is never far from the surface of the film. As cofounder of the Alliance for Journalists' Freedom, Greste's focus is now on media freedom in the Asia Pacific – but recent developments in the US, where Associated Press was banned from White House briefings and Donald Trump's recent funding cuts to Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe, means that the curtailing of press freedom there now dogs the conscience of Greste. 'The assault on press freedom in a place that is the home of a constitution where the first amendment secures that right … I don't think any of us really anticipated how [Trump's] rhetoric would translate into a really hard-nosed assault,' he says. Press freedom in Australia – through defamation laws, media concentration and intensified national security legislation – also remains precarious, Greste warns, pointing to Australia's slip in the world press freedom rankings from 18th position in 2018 to 36th position today. 'There's a reason that the only person who has been prosecuted in relation to Australian war crimes in Afghanistan is the guy who blew the whistle,' he says, referring to the prosecution of David McBride, who is now serving a sentence of five years and eight months in an Australian prison, with a non-parole period of two years and three months. The remaining time of Greste's seven-year prison sentence is still outstanding in any country which has an extradition treaty with Egypt. That includes all of Africa, from the Cape to Cairo – and Greste was once Al Jazeera's Africa correspondent. 'That was my life,' he says. Roxburgh has never been to Egypt. Now, he wonders if even portraying Greste might get him in hot water there. With Egyptian citizens being arrested for reposting criticisms of the government on social media these days, Greste holds no doubts: 'I will rugby tackle Rox if he ever tries to get on that plane.' The Correspondent opens in Australian cinemas on 17 April
