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Edwardian vs Victorian vs Georgian — The Giveaways That'll Help You Figure Out What Your Home Is (and How to Decorate Appropriately)

Because simply describing a home as having 'period' features isn't going to cut it anymore... this guide is here to help you out

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5 Questions on Decorative Plasterwork You Need to Ask Before Specifying It in 2025 — Answered by Interior Designers

All you need to know before adding or updating moldings — and when to go modern or stay traditional

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Fans out in force as State of Origin fever hits Newcastle

It sent a strong message the city was ready for more.

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‘Unfinished business’: the cosy world of Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton

The new foreign secretary, snug in his coterie of ‘louche, power-hungry and amoral’ friends, is keen to be remembered for something other than Brexit

The Guardian - UK

George Osborne 'knows who sent nasty wedding email' and calls in cops to investigate

Police are investigating the poison pen letter circulating among George Osborne's guests as he prepares to marry his one-time adviser Thea Rogers in Somerset on Saturday

Daily Mirror

‘Definitely a lot busier’: TV show lures visitors to coin gang’s Yorkshire home

Associations with 18-century counterfeiters can be seen across Calderdale, where The Gallows Pole tourism has mainly been welcomed

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Our highlights for Wednesday, June 14

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The Gallows Pole review: Shane Meadows’ first foray into period drama

Benjamin Myers’ 2017 novel “The Gallows Pole” told the “true-life tale of the 18th century gang of coin clippers led by ‘King’ David Hartley, whose illegal work and attendant violence came to dominate Cragg Vale in West Yorkshire”, said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. Now, it’s been turned into a…

The Week

The Gallows Pole: The real-life grisly story of the Cragg Vale Coiners

Directed by This Is England creator Shane Meadows, the biopic tells the tale of the deadly forgery gang who nearly sank the economy of 18th Century Britain

Manchester Evening News

The Gallows Pole review: A very self-consciously different kind of period drama

Shane Meadows’s latest TV venture could have been cracking – but it’s just plain bewildering

The Independent UK

The Gallows Pole review – Shane Meadows’s period drama is an absolute must-see

The director of This is England’s take on a novel about an 18th-century counterfeiting gang is funny, moving, shocking and totally compelling. He has effortlessly reinvented a whole genre

The Guardian - UK

True story of The Gallows Pole and real life Robin Hood who robbed rich to save town

A new Shane Meadows drama called The Gallows Pole showcases the lives of David Hartley and the Yorkshire Coiners, a brutal but cunning gang who made and shared forged currency in the 1700s

Daily Mirror

BBC's The Gallows Pole: Plot, cast, episodes and how to watch

New period drama The Gallows Pole is airing on the BBC

Wales Online

“The biggest fraud in British history” the shocking real story behind historical drama The Gallows Pole

The Gallows Pole true story: There's a shocking truth behind the BBC historical drama, described as “The biggest fraud in British history.”

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Shane Meadows on his newfound love of period drama: ‘It’ll resonate with people in a way we didn’t even intend’

He made his name with violence-peppered working-class realism, but now the This is England creator is doing historical drama. We step inside his take on a brutal 18th-century gang

Evening Standard

The Gallows Pole on BBC Two review: a three-hour galavant through Shane Meadows’ zany imagination

This Is England’s Shane Meadows reimagines one of Yorkshire’s most gripping tales

Evening Standard

Pagans, folk rock and no script: the making of The Gallows Pole, the BBC’s wacky new historical drama

Cult director Shane Meadows takes the helm to tell a uniquely Yorkshire story

The Guardian - UK

Actor Michael Socha: ‘Did I fall in with the wrong people? No, I was the wrong people’

First cast by Shane Meadows, in This is England, Socha now stars in his latest, The Gallows Pole. He describes how acting saved him from a life of violence – and why he loves a madcap scheme

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The Gallows Pole: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and more on Shane Meadows' period drama

The Gallows Pole on BBC2 tells the story of a gang of 18th-century weavers and land-workers who embark on an ambitious criminal plot.

ABC News

Long-term economic efforts of South Australian River Murray flooding still being calculated

River Murray floodwaters wiped out Peter Singh's Renmark vineyard late last year — and now he is faced with the difficult question of what to do next: rebuild or sell?

Nottingham Post

Family concerned for missing Australian man who may be sleeping rough in Nottingham

It is suspected that David, who suffers from schizophrenia, may be sleeping rough in and around the Nottingham and Bulwell areas.

Daily Mirror

I'm A Celeb's royal Mike Tindall shows off fingernails painted by daughter in cute moment

The rugby star was spotted enjoying quality time with wife Zara at Cheltenham after jetting home from the jungle

Wales Online

Four brothers with rare disease who had bone marrow transplants lead call for more research

There is 'promising new gene therapy treatment on the horizon' that could see 'safer and more effective ways to treat patients with XLP'

Daily Mirror

Queen's cousin marries in lavish ceremony with Prince Harry's ex as guest

Alexander Dru popped the question to Lady Tatiana Mountbatten while the couple were on a skiing holiday in the Alps

ABC News

SA Murray River shack owners brace for flooding as water flow increases from La Niña events

Murray River shack owners have started to prepare for flooding as river flows increase and dams hit capacity. But the clouds have come with a silver lining for the local avifauna.

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