EU threatens to dig in over Ulster border checks row as official warns major changes to arrangements are impossible Brussels warned they are unwilling to ease checks on goods crossing Irish sea Maros Sefcovic will arrive in London to meet Michael Gove over border problems The Northern Ireland protocol is designed to avoid border on island … Read more
That’s a grave insult! Trainee cemetery workers mistakenly dig practice plot at beauty spot Contractors dug a hole in the middle of a field of ‘irreplaceable ecological value’ Easthill Field, in Frome, Somerset is home to wildlife and endangered dormice Activists fighting to protect the field from developers were ‘intensely upset’ By Gregory Kirby For … Read more
Netflix has been met with criticism for casting lead actress Carey Mulligan as a woman in her 50s in new film The Dig. The screen star, 35, plays 56-year-old landowner Edith Pretty – a role originally intended for Nicole Kidman, 53 – in the movie, which is based on John Preston’s 2007 novel about the … Read more
It was a haul of treasure hailed upon its discovery as Britain’s ‘Tutankhamun’. The 86ft Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, was unearthed in 1939. More than 260 items were discovered, including weapons, armour, coins, jewellery, gold buckles, patterned plaques and silver cutlery. New Netflix film The Dig, starring Lily James, Ralph Fiennes and … Read more
The Dig, starring Carey Mulligan, turns out to be a gentle, gorgeous-looking film that provides a near-perfect balm for these difficult times By Matthew Bond for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 30 January 2021 The Dig Cert 12A, 1hr 52mins … Read more
Netflix‘s The Dig has been slammed as sexist for reducing an experienced archaeologist to a ‘bumbling, deferential, sidekick to her husband’. The film depicts the unearthing of the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk and stars Ralph Fiennes as self-taught local archaeologist Basil Brown and Lily James as 27-year-old excavator Peggy Piggott. Mrs Piggott was … Read more
Matt Hancock infuriates SNP by using Covid press conference to take dig at Nicola Sturgeon’s rogue referendum – saying Scottish Ambulance Service needed bailing out at the weekend proving the UK is ‘stronger together’ Matt Hancock made comments at the Downing Street Covid press conference He said other nations had ‘stepped forward’ to help Scottish … Read more
NETFLIX The Dig Wonderful, moving dramatisation of the 1939 dig at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk that unearthed an Anglo-Saxon ship burial and a hoard of buried treasure. Ralph Fiennes is Basil Brown, the self-taught archaeologist who made the discovery. Wonderful, moving dramatisation of the 1939 dig at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. Ralph Fiennes (above) … Read more
Saffron Lempriere made a savage dig at her former best friend Gemma Collins on Wednesday night as she took part in a candid Q&A session. The TOWIE star, 28, encouraged her 118K followers to write assumptions about her and she would confirm whether they were true or false. During the Q&A session, Saffron candidly spoke about her … Read more
Carey Mulligan was left ‘physically scarred’ trying to save co-star Ralph Fiennes who was BURIED under clay as they recreated tragic landslide scenes for latest film The Dig By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 09:44 GMT, 17 January 2021 | Updated: 09:47 GMT, 17 January 2021 Carey Mulligan has recounted the true-to-life trauma she experienced … Read more