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What’s on TV tonight: Stand Up & Deliver continues to be excruciating and hilarious The i 3/4/2021 Gerard Gilbert Pick of the day: Stand Up & Deliver 9pm, Channel 4 Anyone catching last week’s show in which minor celebrities were mentored in the high-wire act of live stand-up comedy will want to know whether it was all right on the night. The Rev Richard Coles, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Curtis Pritchard, Katie McGlynn and Shaun Ryder attempt to entertain a 300-strong audienc...

Families of Yorkshire Ripper victims demand his estate be shared between them Mystery surrounds the contents of Peter Sutcliffe’s will, amid claims he owns two plots of land in Scotland. Sutcliffe died of Covid-19 (Image: Supplied) Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your inform...

A new TV documentary looks at the forgotten victims of Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe THE man behind the transformation of the Odeon believes his grandfather was the Yorkshire Ripper’s ‘first unconfirmed victim’. The Yorkshire Ripper’s New Victims, to be screened on Channel 5 on Thursday, will feature the stories of other potential victims of Peter Sutcliffe years before he was convicted of murdering 13 women and seven attempted murders. One of these ‘forgotten’ victims is F...

A new Netflix series revisiting the crimes of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, has outraged viewers who claim it still perpetuates the attitude that some of his victims lives meant less because they were sex workers.  The crimes of the serial killer who murdered 13 women and attempted to kill many others in the 1970s, have been well documented, but a new generation has been left shocked to hear sex workers among Sutcliffes victims referred to as pests, good time girls or having gone down...

Respect to all the women who had to live through that [expletive]."  The new show received some criticism ahead of its launch from the victims of Peter Sutcliffe and their families, who claimed that they were unaware of the shows title and were unhappy when it was changed.  The series looks at Peter Sutcliffes crimes In a letter signed by two survivors of Peter Sutcliffe, Marcella Claxton and Mo Lea, and relatives of seven of Sutcliffes victims, they said: "The moniker "the Yorkshire Ripper" ...

The police search for evidence Credit: Netflix Netflix’s four-part Yorkshire Ripper documentary has been already condemned by families of Peter Sutcliffe’s victims as insensitive and guilty of glorifying his murders. Netflix is, in particular, accused of sensationalism after changing the name of the series from the relatively thoughtful Once Upon a Time in Yorkshire to the more lurid – as the families see it – “The Ripper”. “Please remember that the word “ripper” relates to...

The families of the women murdered by Peter Sutcliffe have blasted Netflix for glorifying the serial killers crimes. Netflix changed the name of its upcoming documentary from Once Upon A Time In Yorkshire to The Ripper, which his victims families say is a traumatising term. In a letter written to the company, they described the term as irresponsible, insensitive and insulting to our families. Netflix only changed the name after the families agreed to take part in the documentary on Sutcliffe, w...