The Witch Is Dead hits UK charts

The death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has sent a 74-year-old song, Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead, flying into the UK charts, figures showed. The song from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz was top of Amazon’s most downloaded chart on Wednesday after a social media campaign to promote the upbeat track as a way for detractors to “celebrate” the death of Britain’s most divisive postwar leader.

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Westaway shrugs off death threats

Not even death threats on social media can dampen Nic Westaway’s enthusiasm for playing Home And Away newcomer Kyle Braxton. “It was kind of playful,” says the 24 year old, brushing off the hate messages he received from some of the show’s fans after his character kidnapped half-brother Casey (Lincoln Younes) and kept him tied up in the Australian outback.

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Trailer: Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium

The first trailer from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s new political sci fi thriller Elysium has been released. It takes us to the year 2154, where just two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.

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