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CBC
5 days ago
- CBC
Rankin Inlet sees spike in serious injuries from ATV accidents
Cases of serious injuries have risen dramatically in the last year. The hamlet's fire chief says the injuries are often caused by speeding, and alcohol is sometimes a factor.
Irish Times
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Harvest review: Trippy medieval parable where allegory overpowers the drama
Harvest Harvest Director : Athina Rachel Tsangari Cert : 18 Genre : Folklore Starring : Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira, Frank Dillane Running Time : 2 hrs 11 mins Athina Rachel Tsangari, sometime Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator and leading light of the Greek Weird Wave, returns to features following a nine-year hiatus. Harvest, her first English-language film, is a trippy medieval parable drawn from Jim Crace's novel of the same name. Although imbued with the same off‑kilter humour that powered Attenberg and Chevalier to international success, here Tsangari pursues an angular, folkloric register, situating her story in an unnamed Scottish border hamlet confronted by enclosure, cartographic bureaucracy and outsiders blamed for an unexplained blaze. Walter Thirsk, portrayed by Caleb Landry Jones with fraught fragility, occupies the nebulous space between peasantry and gentry; childhood ties bind him to benevolent yet ineffectual landlord Master Kent ( Harry Melling ). Their complicated kinship – both recent widowers – grants the picture its most persuasive emotional anchor. Around them swirl suspicious villagers, mysterious wanderers and the comparatively worldly map‑maker Earle (Arinzé Kene), whose parchment lines foreshadow dispossession. The arrival of Kent's ambitious cousin Jordan (Frank Dillane) hastens the transformation of fields into profitable pasture, pushing the settlement toward further fracture. READ MORE Cinematographer Sean Price Williams lenses mud, mist and ember skies with handsome texture – 16mm grain and flares showing – producing tableaux that recall Bruegel as much as Gaspar Noé. Tsangari's taste for ritual detail – a buttercup dabbed across a child's cheek before the Gleaning Queen selection, the burning of a corn dolly – creates searing imagery. Unhappily, the film's allegorical ambitions overpower its drama. Often-hapless characters frequently stand for positions rather than pulse with personality or motive, slowing momentum across an already‑stretched running time. When violence finally erupts – a humiliating shaving, a ghastly pillory interlude – the shock registers, but the preceding drift lessens the impact. Landry Jones and several co-stars, capable of real and feral unpredictability, are restrained by dialogue that sounds stock. There's plenty to admire – the earthy sound design, inventive point‑of‑view shifts, flashes of sly humour – while simultaneously yearning for the vivacity that enlivened the director's earlier work. Like the village it depicts, the film is meticulously crafted yet oddly two-dimensional: a map, not a place.
The Guardian
04-07-2025
- General
- The Guardian
Homes for sale with outbuildings and studios in England and Wales
Ceredigion Why own one home when you can have a whole hamlet – or most of one anyway? Three cottages, a boathouse and two Dutch barns make up most of this hamlet. Beautifully restored by the owners with quarry-tiled floors and timber-panelled walls, the main property, Felin Brithdir, is painted a rustic coral. Within 1.2 hectares (three acres) of land, there is a a wildflower meadow, a lake and woodland. Close to the coast, it lends itself to a holiday let business; the hamlet is on the route between Aberystwyth and Eryri (Snowdonia). £975,000 . Inigo, 020 3687 3071 Photograph: Inigo Colepike Hall is a Grade II-listed manor house and estate that, in its earliest iteration, was supposedly part of a deserted village. It became a manor house in medieval times and was rebuilt again in 1859. The stone building is now split into three properties. Cookson House, the four-bedroom east wing is for sale, but residents will soon forget they are attached. This side of the hall has its own private gardens, including woodland, a fenced paddock and a kitchen garden. A large outbuilding houses a gym and a store room. £950,000. Finest Properties, 0330 111 2266 Photograph: Finest In this rural hamlet, four miles from the town of Heathfield, surrounded by the High Weald area of outstanding natural beauty, is a detached family-sized home. There is a timber garage with a studio above that has its own kitchenette and is accessed by an external staircase. The front door opens into a large entrance hall with a sitting room on one side and the study on the other. Bifold doors open out from the kitchen on to a terrace that runs the width of the house and looks out across the lawn at the back. £995,000. Knight Frank, 01892 354 547 Photograph: Knight Frank This double-fronted Grade II-listed village house, which dates to 1848, has three bedrooms, plus an annexe in the back garden that could serve as a study or home office. There is a basement, too. The kitchen cabinets are painted ink blue, while the tiled flooring runs into the light snug, which has whitewashed exposed ceiling beams. There is gated parking and a walled south-facing courtyard garden. This popular village has the three Ps – a pub, a post office and a primary school. It is about three miles from the market town of Stamford. £600,000. Savills, 01780 484 696 Photograph: Savills Behind double-glazed front doors is a three-storey home in a conservation area between Blackheath and Charlton. The kitchen and smaller sitting room are on the lower ground level. The heart of the home is the reception room, which dominates the ground floor with wooden floors, panelled walls and a feature fireplace. Stairs from here lead up to the first floor. In the landscaped garden there is an outhouse with internet access and power. Westcombe Park railway station is in close proximity. £850,000. Dexters, 020 8815 2200 Photograph: Dexters
CBC
13-06-2025
- Health
- CBC
Boil water advisory issued for Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T.
Social Sharing Residents in Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T., are being advised to boil their tap water for at least one minute before using. In a public health advisory Thursday afternoon, the office of the chief public health officer says there is higher than normal turbidity, or muddiness, in the water and the advisory is just a precaution. The advisory says there have been no reported illnesses associated with drinking the water in the community. Officials say residents should boil any water being used for drinking, preparing food, hot and cold beverages, ice cubes, washing produce, brushing teeth or other dental hygiene, and for infant formulas. Bathing, showering and washing hands with tap water is OK but residents should avoid swallowing the water. Tsiigehtchic residents could also use bottled water or water that's been distilled or treated by reverse osmosis but filters like Brita, which use activated carbon filters, are not considered safe to treat water during the advisory period. Residents should also avoid drinking from public fountains. A notice from the hamlet, posted to the community's Facebook page, says there's an issue with the water treatment plant and that water will be trucked in from Fort McPherson, about 60 kilometres away, starting Friday. The hamlet wrote that five truckloads are required to service the community and although water delivery schedules will remain the same, residents are asked to try and conserve. The territory's chief environmental health officer, in collaboration with the community government, will continue to monitor the situation and will provide formal notice to lift the boil water advisory. The hamlet said it would update the community when plant maintenance is complete.
CBC
16-05-2025
- General
- CBC
Enterprise, N.W.T. still recovering nearly 2 years after devastating fire
Once a tight-knit hamlet of around 100 people, residents say the community is torn and still a long way from recovery, both physically and emotionally. The CBC's Carla Ulrich has more.
