In 1986, Bamber was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing five members of his family. Now analysis of crime scene photographs by a leading forensic biologist could exonerate him

On 7 August 1985, five people were found dead at White House Farm in Essex, England: 28-year-old Sheila Caffell (familiarly known as Bambi); her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas; and her adoptive parents, June and Nevill Bamber. All five had been shot with a rifle. Caffell’s 24-year-old brother, Jeremy Bamber, who was also adopted, had alerted Essex police to a disturbance inside the farmhouse – he said his father had called to tell him – and was outside with the police for four hours before the bodies were discovered. Caffell, who had recently been hospitalised with schizoaffective disorder and is said to have feared her children were going to be taken into foster care, was found with the rifle lying on her chest, pointing towards her neck. There were two gunshot wounds to her neck and chin, and a bloodied Bible by her side.

New film Fatherland took Sandra Hüller back to a divided Germany. She talks about damaged dreams, Hollywood feelgood and - just maybe - appearing in the new Marvel movie

Sandra Hüller is crying, and it feels very strange. A wildly gifted actor, she can convey every human emotion there is. On screen, though, she is most often asked to embody deep self-possession. Even doing karaoke, Hüller is in control. And in real life, life is good. Her 2026 will end with four high-profile movies this year alone. Two (Fatherland and Rose) are black-and-white arthouse films that centre on her brilliance, and though one of the others (Digger) is already a Hollywood cautionary tale, a second (Project Hail Mary) was a giant $684m hit. (There may also be a fifth movie, bigger still. We will come back to that.)

And yet, dressed in film star black, she is in tears. “This is really hard for me,” she says.

In 1996 doctors told me I wouldn’t walk again unaided, but in 2022 I took the record for the most Everest summits by a non-Sherpa

I grew up in Slough, Berkshire, in a bungalow beside a farm. My father was a scout leader, and I was always outside, building dams and dens, sleeping out and hiding in trees. In my teens, family holidays were two weeks in Wales. At home, nature was my playground.

When I was 17, a school friend took me to a climbing wall where he was a regular. I loved the physicality of it and trying to work out where to put my hands and feet next. We would go there twice a week. In sixth form, we headed to the south coast in Dorset for my first real climbing outing. The waves were crashing and it felt scary and exhilarating. I thought it was magical.

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From parkour over Manhattan rooftops and car chases in Paris to the climactic battle at a North Korean air base, the developers have thrown absolutely everything at the game

And so we return perhaps one final time to Call of Duty’s Modern Warfare strand, with stories, “ripped from the newspaper headlines”, featuring shady terror organisations, nefarious rogue states and the brutally capable, monosyllabic war fighters who stand between us and Armageddon. Last year’s Black Ops 7 instalment was a sales disappointment for Activision, and that has no doubt put extra pressure on Infinity Ward, the studio leading Modern Warfare 4 development. Fortunately, this developer – like series heroes Price, Gaz and Ghost – seems to thrive on pressure.

As you may have read, this year’s campaign is based around a fictitious North Korean ruling family that has seized an opportunity to invade its southern neighbour. Amid the chaos, a small group of Korean and American marines must help lead the fightback, while in the shadows, SAS hard man John Price makes an unlikely new comrade in his own morally ambiguous quest to put the world to rights. Mads Mikkelsen pops up as evil mastermind The Archer, but like Kiernan Shipka in Black Ops 7 he’s rather wasted, with very little screen time.

The hot comic has made Fresh Meat for generation Z with this London sitcom. Produced by A24 and guest starring Andrew Scott, it is profound and properly funny – even if you’re easily triggered by houseshare horrors

In his 2023 standup special Literally Who Cares?!, Leo Reich bemoaned the fact that his life wasn’t more like a TV comedy. “All the sitcoms I watched as a teenager really made me imagine that being in my early 20s would involve a lot more navigating the dating scene in the big city,” he groaned. “And a lot less Googling the words ‘death toll’.” Reich was playing a caricature of a self-absorbed zoomer, who had taken up smoking during the pandemic because “some part of me decided it might be worth cutting 20 years off my life”. Behind this performance there was, of course, a rather big dollop of truth: life for gen Z has – for the most part – been less sitcom, more doom-filled rolling news bulletin.

Reich – now 28 – is a rare comic to land an HBO special, and now an A24/Channel 4 series, putting him in the ideal position to redress the balance with his very own sitcom. Like HBO’s I Love LA (spiritually gen Z, if written by a millennial, Rachel Sennott), it juxtaposes grossness with aspiration. And like Girls before it, it is helmed by a perfectly un-self-aware protagonist, Ethan (Reich), whom – we are told at the outset – has had “one of the easiest lives in recorded human history”. There are hints of Fresh Meat, too, and traces of Reich’s comedy hero Simon Amstell in its dry neuroticism and Jewish-themed LOLs. Sometimes, it verges on the satirical – as when Andrew Scott cameos as a hookup who offers Ethan free therapy as foreplay. (Ethan tempers his complaints by saying that at least he hasn’t “lived through Aids” – Scott’s character, Brian, snaps back: “How old do you think I am?!”)

How can it be right that undercover reporters failed to ask permission to expose party’s racist and misogynist views?

The world has gone mad. What has happened to the country when you can’t even have a bit of racist and sexist banter with your mates at work? Time was when up to 20 million viewers would settle down to watch Till Death Us Do Part, for 30 minutes of laughter with Alf Garnett moaning about black people while calling his wife “a silly old moo”. That was a Britain that was worth living in. These days the thought police are everywhere. The wokerati from London, Oxford and Cambridge who are out to ruin everyone’s lives. What’s wrong with letting sleeping racists lie?

Well, Zia Yusuf has had enough and he’s not going to take it any more. After the ITV exposé which revealed racist remarks by members of the party, he has posted a six-and-a-half-minute video on social media promising extreme retribution against the undercover journalists who posed as Reform-friendly.

Be Ready campaign aims to prepare UK for impact of climate crisis, technological dependency and threats by hostile state

Every Briton is being urged to stock up to nine litres of bottled water and three days’ worth of food in new government guidance designed to ensure that households can survive a weather, cyber or other serious emergency.

The Be Ready campaign is aimed at persuading people to stock up with supplies to last 72 hours, amid growing official concern about the impact of the climate crisis, technological dependency and hostile state threats.

Official forecasts show country will meet energy demand by paying high prices to secure imports

Great Britain is expected to pay some of the highest energy costs in Europe this winter as its reliance on imports to ensure a steady supply is forecast to deepen.

Energy system operators have said the country will have enough gas and electricity to meet demand over the coldest months – in part because of paying higher market prices than neighbouring markets to secure imports.

The satellite service was still operating at a cap of 161km/hr, crippling key air defences

But Macron’s government has ramped up restrictions and security measures to try and stop the widespread looting and ransacking we saw on the fringes of the wider peaceful demonstrations last week.

What protests are planned?
Both student groups and trade unions have planned rallies across the country. France’s ⁠main student union, UNEF, has called for demonstrations on Saturday and the Yellow Vest movement also filed plans to march through central Paris.

There are already overnight curfews in place in Paris and many other cities.

In Marseille and Lyon, the second and third-largest cities, all demonstrations have been banned for the weekend.

The Marseille city government also initially said it would stop public transport running on Saturday; they’ve hastily reversed that severely unpopular decision this morning.

In Paris, protesters have been told they can only march a designated route between the Bastille and Nation squares.

Le Monde has this handy map on their site with all the curbs and restrictions and local curfew times

Many shops and businesses, tourist sites and events are boarding up and closing for the weekend. Marseille’s business council advised shops to do so.

In Paris, the Louvre Museum will be shut while the Art Basel Paris art fair is also finishing up early.

On top of the protest bans and restrictions in place, the government says they’ll deploy 20% more police onto the streets this weekend

Macron held a Security Council meeting on Thursday with senior ministers; he’s discussing other measures with law enforcement this morning

This afternoon in Paris the French president is also due to host student protest leaders for the first time for negotiations

Exclusive: Photographer Simon Montgomery told ‘state’s interest in regulated immigration’ outweighs his family concerns

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A British photographer is facing deportation from Sweden and forced separation from his 16-month-old son after authorities ruled in favour of the country’s immigration interests.

Simon Montgomery’s application to remain after the birth of his son last year was rejected on multiple grounds by the country’s migration agency, a decision that was then upheld by the migration court.