Good evening, and welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister is under pressure tonight to explain why mps were not told a Trident Missile test went wrong last summer. It happened just weeks before a crucial commons vote on the future of britains nuclear deterrent, when theresa may urged parliament to back renewal of the weapons system. Today, she repeatedly declined to say whether she knew of the malfunction, when an unarmed missile failed to reach its target. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports. This is what the launch of a Trident Missile looks like. Lastjune, the royal navy carried out what it calls a Routine Un Armed Test Launch from Hms Vengeance but we now know that something went wrong. Hms vengeance was about 200 miles off the florida coast. It was to fire the missile around 5,000 miles across the atlantic. But a malfunction occurred during its flight and it didnt reach its target. The speaker i call the Prime Minister. Yet, just weeks later, theresa may was asking mp
Spitting image: Jonny Lee Miller will play the former prime minister in season five
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Jonny Lee Miller will play John Major in the upcoming series of The Crown, as the “grey man” is given a Netflix makeover.
Miller starred in the 1996 release Trainspotting as one of a band of heroin addicts navigating British society during Major’s tenure.
The former husband of Angelina Jolie, who has played dashing figures such as Lord Byron, will now portray the grey man of politics on the small screen.
Series five of the award-winning Netflix production is set to begin where it left off in series four, with the ousting of Margaret Thatcher setting the stage for the leadership of Major.
The Sex Pistols in 1978
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Anarchy, filth and fury will likely be exploding into living rooms around the world after it was announced this afternoon that Trainspotting filmmaker Danny Boyle will direct a six-part TV biopic about punk rockers the Sex Pistols.
Pistol will be based on guitarist Steve Jones’s no-holds-barred 2016 autobiography Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. Production will start in March with a cast including Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams.
The film will focus on Jones’s early years and how the punk subculture caused both moral outrage and a fashion revolution in the buttoned-up London of the mid-1970s. “Imagine breaking into the world of The Crown and Downton Abbey with your mates and screaming your songs and your fury at all they represent,” Boyle said. “This is the moment that British society and culture changed forever. It is the detonation point for British high-street culture.”