Dutch F1 Grand Prix qualifying – live

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Final times after third practice

1 Lando Norris (GB) McLaren 1min 08.972secs
2 Oscar Piastri (AU) McLaren 1:09.214
3 George Russell (GB) Mercedes GP 1:09.858
4 Carlos Sainz Jr. (SP) Williams 1:09.913
5 Max Verstappen (NL) Red Bull 1:09.925
6 Charles Leclerc (MC) Ferrari 1:09.938
7 Alexander Albon (TH) Williams 1:10.099
8 Lance Stroll (CA) Aston Martin 1:10.103
9 Isack Hadjar (FR) RB 1:10.166
10 Fernando Alonso (SP) Aston Martin 1:10.232
11 Liam Lawson (NZ) RB 1:10.300
12 Yuki Tsunoda (JP) Red Bull 1:10.349
13 Gabriel Bortoleto (BR) Kick Sauber 1:10.361
14 Lewis Hamilton (GB) Ferrari 1:10.373
15 Oliver Bearman (GB) Haas F1 1:10.595
16 Nico Hulkenberg (DE) Kick Sauber 1:10.599
17 Andrea Kimi Antonelli (IT) Mercedes GP 1:10.697
18 Esteban Ocon (FR) Haas F1 1:10.801
19 Pierre Gasly (FR) Alpine 1:10.963
20 Franco Colapinto (AR) Alpine 1:11.054

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Rose of Nevada review – uncanny ghost ship story from one-of-a-kind Cornish auteur

Venice film festival
A vanished trawler returns in Mark Jenkin’s time-slipping film, an enigmatic drama steeped in loss, memory and the unsettling rhythms of coastal life

Those in peril at sea are the subject of this arresting ghost story from Cornish film-maker Mark Jenkin. Set in a fishing village, it explores the intimate presence of death and the disquieting claustrophobia of family and community – qualities often assumed to be eternal virtues.

Maybe a film of just this kind was always what Jenkin’s distinct film language was waiting for. His technique and his quasi-primitivist aesthetic favour the eerie and the uncanny; his films have the texture of early cinema updated to the present day, shot on 16mm, developed by hand in such a way as to create scratches on the print, with dialogue and ambient sound overdubbed. It all creates a drama that feels like a remembered dream, and when there are actual dream sequences the gap between the illusion and reality is very slight. The movie itself feels to me like a kind of found object, and in this digital age it is vanishingly rare to encounter something that makes you think of the lost physical reality of celluloid whirring through a projector’s old-fashioned metal sprockets.

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Alarm as US far-right extremists eye drones for use in domestic attacks

Experts say extremists openly talking of how home-built drones will be critical tool in so-called second civil war

Taking their cues from modern warfare, the far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer (FPV) drones as a critical weapon in their own future war against the US government, which has American authorities on edge.

And there’s ample reasons for those fears: in the open and closed online spaces where far-right extremists congregate, talk is commonplace of how these cheap drones are revolutionizing current wars and will be the critical tools of a so-called second civil war.

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‘Garnet red with a delicious flavour’: the best supermarket strawberry jams, tasted and rated

They’re a toast-time tradition, but which jars are the real jam and which are just a sticky mess?

14 pieces of baking kit the pros can’t live without

Jam is a simple product: it’s mostly fruit and sugar with added pectin and sometimes citric acid, and it needs little else, so I tend to avoid any with unnecessary additives. Legally, it has to contain a minimum level of sugar, so when manufacturers use fruit juice concentrate instead of sugar, they often fall below that threshold and have to call their product a fruit spread instead.

I tasted 10 jams straight from the jar, much to my teeth’s dismay, and then again spread on warm buttered baguette. Every product was delicious in its own right, but some really stood out as exceptional, with serious complexity and depth, and not overpowered by the sugar.

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Louisiana judge orders return of devices to ex-priest caught having sex on church altar

Former Roman Catholic priest and two dominatrices were evidently recording sexual videos in the church in 2020

A judge in Louisiana has ordered the return of electronics belonging to an ex-Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to obscenity for being caught having sex with two dominatrices atop a church altar while still belonging to the clergy in 2020.

However, the judge also told authorities to erase all data from the devices and storage media as a precaution against videos taken of the tryst from becoming public.

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Proposals for commercial planes to operate with one pilot shelved after critical EU report

Regulator Easa concludes there is not enough evidence it is as safe as flying with two pilots as currently required

Proposals for commercial aeroplanes to operate with just one pilot in the cockpit have been put on ice after a report for the European regulator suggested it would make flying more dangerous.

A three-year research project into “extended minimum crew operations” commissioned by the EU Aviation Safety Agency (Easa) found that despite advances in technology there was not sufficient evidence that flying with a single pilot could be as safe as with the two currently required.

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