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Scotsman
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Scotsman
Win a £60,000 BMW M5 for just 5p in latest BOTB giveaway
The M5 Competition can get from 0-60mph in 3.1 seconds | BOTB This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. This sleek BMW M5 Competition is a £60k V8-powered beast—and it could be yours for just 5p in BOTB's latest prize draw. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... This understated black BMW is something of a wolf in sheep's clothing. It might look like a family saloon car, but lurking beneath the bonnet is a 625bhp V8 engine, which can propel the car up to 190mph. It's a BMW M5 Competition, considered by petrolheads to be one of the most versatile cars out there. And it's worth a cool £60,000. It'll carry five people in complete comfort, it'll eat up huge distances in luxury, and it's got enough power to outpace modern supercars. The M5 has all the extras included | BOTB This 2020 version, being given away as a prize by BOTB, is the sought-after Competition version, and it has covered just 35,000 miles. It'll make the ultimate family car for one lucky person, and it could be yours for just five pence. Yes, BOTB is selling tickets to win it and one lucky person's ticket will have cost just 5p. But if you're savvy, you might be interested in one of the bundles. It won't cost a lot to buy plenty of tickets, and you can buy up to 600 per person. The noise from the four exhausts is pretty intoxicating | BOTB If you did win the BMW and for some reason you just don't want a new car, you could opt for the £42,000 cash alternative instead, and there is the option of a free postal entry - but try buying a stamp for less than five pence. To find out more about the car and the competition, click here. If you're worried about how gambling makes you feel, you can find free, confidential advice, tools and support, by visiting GambleAware or contacting the National Gambling Helpline, available 24/7, on 0808 8020 133 Selling your car? Here's the fastest way to get cash – and how it compares to rivals Thinking of selling your car this summer? It all starts with a valuation – and you can get one in under a minute with WeBuyAnyCar. With over 500 branches across the UK and same-day payment available, it's one of the quickest ways to find out what your vehicle is worth and get the cash if you're ready to sell. Used car prices have stayed surprisingly strong, especially for economical hatchbacks and SUVs. Whether you're upgrading for road trips or switching to a hybrid, a fast online quote can give you a solid starting point – even if you're still weighing up your options.
Washington Post
4 days ago
- Business
- Washington Post
European companies cut costs, scale back investments in China as its economy slows
BEIJING — European companies are cutting costs and scaling back investment plans in China as its economy slows and fierce competition drives down prices , according to an annual survey released Wednesday. Their challenges reflect broader ones faced by a Chinese economy hobbled by a prolonged real estate crisis that has hurt consumer spending. Beijing also faces growing pushback from Europe and the United States over surging exports .
The Citizen
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Citizen
SA misses out on Miss World 2025 'Talent Competition' final
Zoalize Jansen van Rensburg still stand a chance to win the Miss World 2025 title. The 72nd Miss World will be crowned on 31 May. Pictures: Instagram South Africa's representative at Miss World 2025, Zoalize Jansen van Rensburg, did not make the cut for the Top 24 finalists in the prestigious pageant's Talent Competition. The Talent Competition is one of the fast-track events that offers contestants a chance to secure a place in the next round ahead of eliminations. Alongside the Sports Challenge and the Beauty with a Purpose segment, the Talent Competition allows contestants to showcase their skills and fast-track to the next round, as winners bypass the standard elimination process. 'Nearly 100 contestants showcased their talents with passion and dedication, bringing energy and character to the competition. 'Following a round of impressive auditions and a highly competitive second cut, 24 outstanding young women have earned their place in the Talent Challenge Final,' organisers announced on social media. Representing Africa in the Talent Competition Final are Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Kenya. While South Africa did not make it to the finals of the Miss World 2025 Talent Competition, Jansen van Rensburg still stands a chance of taking home the Miss World 2025 title. The 72nd Miss World will be crowned on 31 May at the HITEX Convention Centre in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. ALSO READ: Get to know Zoalize Jansen van Rensburg, representing Mzansi at Miss World competitions How Miss World 2025 will be selected Judges will begin by selecting a Top 5 from each continent. From there, the selection will be narrowed down to a Top 2 — consisting of one Continental Winner and one Continental Runner-up from each region. These Top 2 contestants per continent will advance as the Miss World Finalists. From this group, judges will announce the overall Top 4 finalists, who will be the Continental Winners. These four will then compete for the title in the final stage of the competition. The final results will see the crowning of the 72nd Miss World, along with a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd runner-up. Zoalize stands a chance of becoming the fourth South African beauty queen to win the Miss World title. NOW READ: 'From the cage to the stage,' says Chris Brown after being granted over R120 million bail
Washington Post
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Scottie Scheffler goes for 3 in a row by jumping right back in at Colonial after PGA win
FORT WORTH, Texas — Scottie Scheffler is skipping some of his usual prep work for the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial after winning the PGA Championship last weekend. The world No. 1 doesn't want an emphasis on rest and recovery to be misunderstood. 'I didn't just show up here to Fort Worth to just walk around and celebrate last week,' Scheffler said Wednesday. 'I'm here for a reason, and that's not to just play a couple of ceremonious rounds and then ride off in the sunset. I'm here for a reason. That's to compete.'
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Sound Of Falling' Review: Mascha Schilinski's Superb Feature Is A Masterclass In Ethereal, Unnerving Brilliance
One is the loneliest number in Mascha Schilinski's superb second feature, a fractured reflection on childhood and family that eschews linear narrative for immersive atmosphere, telling the story of four young girls from different eras whose lives play out, in the words of Harry Nilsson, by making rhymes of yesterday. Cinema is too small a word for what this sprawling yet intimate epic achieves in its ethereal, unnerving brilliance; forget Cannes, forget the Competition, forget the whole year, even — Sound of Falling is an all-timer. The one constant in a kaleidoscopic timeline that plays out across a hundred years is a farmhouse in northern Germany, established in the opening scenes — perhaps in the '30s or '40s — as home to Erika (Lea Drinda), who amuses herself by binding her left leg and walking on her Uncle Fritz's crutches. Fritz, an amputee, is largely bedbound and suffers night terrors, a casualty of the First World War, but not in the way you might think. So far, everything is fairly traditional, like any other well-appointed period drama. Things suddenly take a bizarre turn, however, when Erika seems to break character, looking into the camera — and smiling. More from Deadline Cannes Film Festival 2025 In Photos: Opening Ceremony, 'Leave One Day' Premiere & Palme d'Or Honoree Robert De Niro Cannes One To Watch: German Filmmaker Mascha Schilinski Talks Buzz Movie 'Sound Of Falling', Which Was Snapped Up Early By Cannes & MK2 As A Bold New Voice Ooh-La-La Land: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex* (*And The Cannes Film Festival) RELATED: From here we flash back to a time when little Alma (Hanna Heckt) lived there with her sisters. Nothing is explained, but from their dress it appears to be the early 20th century, perhaps sometime during or even before the First World War. Alma's mother is throwing a party for All Soul's Day and has put out a special black dress for her youngest daughter to wear. The mantelpiece is full of photographs of deceased relatives, but one in particular stands out: the body of a little girl, propped up on a sofa with a doll. It's a macabre tableau, made even stranger by a creepy double exposure that transforms the woman behind her (is it Alma's mother?) into a faceless kind of ectoplasm. The little girl looks like Alma, and her sisters tell her that it is her. But how can that be? It's the first of many mysteries, the most likely explanation being that, given the high infant mortality rate of the time and the haunting image of a little boy in a coffin that recurs, Alma's mother has lost more than one child along the way. But while Alma is pondering this, the film shifts its attentions to the present day, where Lenka (Laeni Geiseler) and her little sister Nelly (Zoë Baier) live with their parents. The farmhouse is now something of a fixer-upper, and we can tell from the horribly dated décor that the place hasn't had much love since the Cold War. This is our cue for another timeslip; the next period is some undefined postwar period where we meet Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky), Erika's niece. RELATED: Full List Of Cannes Palme d'Or Winners Through The Years: Photo Gallery From here, Schilinski engages in a weird but effective kind of hypnosis, showing the life cycle of a family home through the eyes of the young girls who lived there. Phrases and situations repeat in different periods, and, in the boldest strategy of all, the girls' voice-overs — as if speaking to us from beyond the grave — don't always tally with what we see. Memory, like time, is an abstract concept here, and Fabian Gamper's restless camera has a ghost-like presence, always observing and yet never quite telling, shooting sometimes in such little light that it's hard to see what's happening in the gloom. Given the subject matter, death is everywhere — a fair enough reflection of the morbid interior lives of young girls still drawn, like moths, to books like The Bell Jar and films like The Notebook — but what's real and what's imagined is left for the viewer to decide (Angelika, especially, devises a devastating end for herself in a cornfield). An obvious comparison is Sofia Coppola's debut film The Virgin Suicides, and one can also make a case for Peter Weir's enigmatic Picnic at Hanging Rock, which is much closer in spirit. But Schilinski's film is absolutely its own beast, that rare film that has no music except for one startlingly wonderful song ('Stranger' by Anna Von Hausswolff), resting instead on a mix of ambient clicks and hums that give the film a low-fi analog quality that fits just perfectly with its Proustian themes of les temps perdus. RELATED: One viewing might not be enough, two will certainly make things a bit clearer, but Sound of Falling — like its moody title — is not a puzzle waiting to be solved. Instead, it's an exhilarating experience, frustrating at times, but in the best, most challenging way. If Terence Davis and David Lynch made a movie together, it would look and sound like this. Quite frankly, there's no higher praise than that. Title: Sound of FallingFestival: Cannes (Competition)Director: Mascha SchilinskiScreenwriters: Mascha Schilinski, Louise PeterCast: Hanna Heckt, Lea Drinda, Lena Urzendowsky, Laeni Geiseler, Zoë Baier, Luise Heyer, Susanne WuestSales agent: MK2Running time: 2 hr 29 min Best of Deadline Broadway's 2024-2025 Season: All Of Deadline's Reviews Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Winners Through The Years Deadline Studio At Sundance Film Festival Photo Gallery: Dylan O'Brien, Ayo Edebiri, Jennifer Lopez, Lily Gladstone, Benedict Cumberbatch & More
