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A ROUND-UP OF NEWS REPORTS
IDRIS ELBA
Tipped as possible candidate for Mayor
Actor Idris Elba has emerged as a frontrunner to become Labour’s next candidate for Mayor of London. The Luther actor, 52, is tipped to stand as successor to Sir Sadiq Khan following his high-profile work tackling knife crime.
In January, he presented Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis for BBC1. A year earlier he had launched the Don’t Stop Your Future campaign and staged a protest outside Parliament calling for stronger action on knife crime and stating that the issue had reached “boiling point”.
Sir Sadiq has been Mayor since 2016.
BEATLES MOVIES
Fab Four films cast announced
Irish actors Barry Keoghan and Paul Mescal have been confirmed to star in Sir Sam Mendes’s four new Beatles biopics. Gladiator actor Paul, 29, will star as Paul McCartney while Saltburn star Barry, 32, will play Ringo Starr.