Rush-released in the same year as Prince of Thieves blockbuster, this gritty British movie battled winter weather and chronic illness – and it still holds up

Thirty-five years ago, two films about the legend of Robin Hood – stealer from the rich, giver to the poor – met and duelled in cinemas; we all know who won, Kevin Costner’s big-budget blockbuster, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But what about the other one? It was titled simply Robin Hood, directed by John Irvin and starring Patrick Bergin in the title role alongside a pre-Pulp Fiction Uma Thurman as Maid Marian.

“It was very much a stand-alone film with the aim of giving Kevin Costner’s version a good kicking if we could,” says Irvin, now 85. “The studio wanted to go immediately because they wanted to pre-empt the Costner.”

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Stansted passengers disagree that stopping airports serving alcohol before early flights will reduce bad behaviour

For most people, the idea of a pint with breakfast is pretty grim. But at the Wetherspoon’s in Stansted’s departure lounge on Thursday morning, it appeared to be the beverage of choice.

“It’s a holiday ritual,” said Dee Wood, 60, a waste policy officer, who was enjoying a pint while waiting to board her Alicante-bound morning flight. “It’s like the start of holiday,” said her friend Rachel Almond, 59, a community planner, who was treating herself to a lager. “We don’t get drunk, we just have a pint, say cheers and off we go.”

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NewtonsLaw writes: According to Realtor.com, a California startup called Span plans to partner with Nvidia, PulteGroup, and other homebuilders to equip new homes with mini-data centers, so as to relieve the need to build and power much larger traditional centers. The article states the company "can install 8,000 XFRA units about six times faster and at five times lower cost than the construction of a typical centralized 100 megawatt data center of the same size." Could this be the solution to at least some of the problems hindering the rollout of greater data-center capacity for AI systems? "One big reason the XFRA model works is that the average American home only uses about 40 percent of its electrical capacity," Span said. "As big data center developers struggle to find power sources and distribution capacity, XFRA uses capacity that's already available."

The startup says they will launch a 100-home proof of concept within the year to see if the idea is viable.

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Latvian officials said two drones crashed on its territory early Thursday, with one sparking a brief fire at an oil storage facility.

Ted Turner was niet alleen een van de machtigste mediamagnaten van de VS, die met de oprichting van de 24-uurs nieuwszender CNN een revolutie teweegbracht in het tv-nieuws. Hij was ook een van de grootste filantropen ter wereld, die zich inzette voor de bescherming van het milieu en ondersteuning van de VN.

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Ted Turner has passed away at 87. He started one of the first nationally available superstations on cable television, founded CNN, won the America's Cup, owned the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, and World Championship Wrestling. He faced backlash for colorizing classic films but also started Turner Classic Movies to preserve classic cinema. He was married to Jane Fonda for a time and in his later years was the largest landowner in the United States, using that land for the largest existing herd of American Bison. He donated $1 billion to promote cooperate with the United Nations and co-created Captain Planet to teach kids about environmentalism