S9, Ep3: Pete Tong, DJ

This week on Comfort Eating, Grace is joined by superstar DJ, King of Ibiza, and namesake of his own rhyming slang: it’s Pete Tong MBE. Pete is one of the most influential figures in dance music; without him, house music and club culture would not be what they are today. He is about to go back on the road in the UK with his 10th year of Ibiza Classics – described as an event for the relapse raver. Born in Kent, Pete was raised on classic British 60s fare, and he remembers with fondness tins of baked beans and sausages, and recalls with horror the foods he endured at boarding school. Grace and he discuss wining and dining Run-DMC when he was trying to get them to sign to his label, and what Noel Gallagher’s pet fish may or may not have eaten during the wild noughties running with the Primrose Hill set

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Fear review – an extraordinarily creepy tale of a stalker … with added Martin Compston

The Line of Duty star plays against type in this horribly realistic thriller about a family stalked by their neighbour. The hell they face will claw unbearably at you

Fear opens with someone being carried out of a rather gorgeous house in a rather unprepossessing body bag. As is now traditional for all television dramas, we then flash back to find out how things went so terribly wrong.

So, the plot proper begins when a family moves excitedly into the property, a historically significant townhouse in the posh West End of Glasgow, as befits the successful architect Martyn (Line of Duty’s Martin Compston), his research scientist wife, Rebecca (Anjli Mohindra) and their two children. They own the whole thing apart from the basement flat, where a man called Jan (Solly McLeod) lives. He has left them a welcome note on the mat – “Here’s to good neighbours.”

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Russia sending ‘suicidal missions’ to win foothold over Dnipro River, says Ukraine

Moscow trying to improve its claim to entire Kherson region in time for peace negotiations, says governor

Russian forces are repeatedly trying to seize a foothold across Ukraine’s Dnipro River, dispatching troops on high-casualty missions to gain territory for future peace negotiations, according to the Ukrainian governor of Kherson region.

Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian forces were trying to cross in four locations to justify their claim to the whole oblast, one of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow says it wants to incorporate.

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‘It’s very brazen’: retail workers and shoplifters on the UK’s record theft statistics

Staff tell of thieves costing stores thousands, while shoplifters say soaring living costs drove them to crime

It was about 8pm in Tesco Express when Katherine*, a shift manager in north-west England, was alone with her younger colleague when she noticed a man acting suspiciously in the aisle containing home goods.

The section – which stocked items such as laundry detergent and fabric softener – is behind plastic security barriers, so “he basically ripped it out the shelf, swept it into a duffel bag and walked out,” Katherine said.

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