Four years after the PS5’s release, Sony has now put out a more powerful version. But the asking price is steep

The PlayStation 5 Pro was announced in September , and immediately people reacted with disbelief to the price: £699/$699, without a disc drive. Adjusted for inflation, it is the second-most expensive games console ever released – beaten only by the PlayStation 3, whose price was quickly slashed when it turned out nobody was willing to work a second job to afford one. It’s an addition to, rather than a replacement for, the original PS5 model. All games released so far work on the Pro, and all future PS5 games will work on both models.

For your money, you get an upgraded GPU (graphics processing unit), which is overall 45% more powerful that the original PS5’s; AI upscaling, which makes images more detailed; and advanced ray tracing, which makes the lighting better. In plain English, it’s supposed to make all PS5 games prettier and faster.

Italian city has struggled to shake off image associated with it as a result of murder of Meredith Kercher

The mayor of Perugia, where the British student Meredith Kercher was murdered, has apologised for allowing a controversial TV series co-produced by Amanda Knox to be filmed in the Italian city.

Angry residents displayed banners reading “Rispetto per Meredith” (respect for Meredith) around the city as the crew arrived to film scenes of Blue Moon, an eight-part drama chronicling Knox’s battle to clear her name of the murder, that will be aired on the Disney-owned streaming service Hulu.

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Patrick Ruane had targeted individuals online including chief medical officer

A Covid denier who suggested “whacking” Prof Sir Chris Whitty with a rounders bat has been jailed for five years after being convicted of encouraging terrorism.

Messages posted by Patrick Ruane on social media were described by a judge who sentenced him at the Old Bailey as “extremely dangerous” during a volatile time.

Do you fancy a weekend sword fight or touring a castle dressed as a laundress? Volunteers devoted to ‘living history’ events explain their enduring appeal

A horse in colourful medieval garb ambles past, its rider heading off to the first sword fight of the day. From across the fence, music from a group of jitterbug dancers boogie-woogies through the air. And here, in a small field dotted with picnic benches, a group of red-coated cavaliers are preparing for a musket demonstration. “I’ve tried muskets but I close my eyes when I fire,” confides Victoria Barton, who chooses to stand behind the safety line with me as the fighters load and light up their weapons. “Plus,” she says, as their guns fire, clouds of smoke blooming over the soldiers’ heads, “I like my eyelashes.”

When I visit, there are 65 re-enactors here at Chiltern Open Air Museum , a 45-acre site that has hosted the filming of Horrible Histories, Downton Abbey and Masters of the Air. Most of the participants at this weekend event , all re-creating battles or soldiers’ encampments not just from the civil wars but across the ages, are volunteers. They give up their evenings and weekends to breathe life into old stories.

Police last year recommended charging ex-officer with misconduct over deaths of soldiers at barracks

Prosecutors have spent 18 months considering whether to charge a former army instructor at Deepcut barracks where five recruits died over two decades ago.

A file recommending that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) charge a former member of the Royal Logistics Corps for misconduct in a public office was sent last year but prosecutors said they were still unable to provide guidance on when a decision would be made.

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A turbo-charged performance from the young conductor, carefully paced and full of bold choices, brought out the beauty and the terror of Stravinsky’s score

The programme might have looked conventional on paper but there was nothing safe about Klaus Mäkelä’s debut with the London Symphony Orchestra. The 28-year-old Finn, who in 2027 will take on the top job at both the Royal Concertgebouw and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, gave a turbo-charged demonstration of what all the fuss is about, concluding with an earth-shattering account of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.

He opened on home turf with Sibelius’s Tapiola, a 20-minute evocation of the vast northern forests that ranks among the Finnish composer’s darkest utterances. Striding forth into the twilight with broad, confident gestures, Mäkelä swayed in time as woodlands thrashed and heaved, or crouched as if to brace himself against the musical onslaught. Physicality aside, this was an imaginative, rigorously crafted interpretation, which the orchestra conveyed in dazzling shades of grey – the tectonic rumble of the icy crescendo was overwhelming.

New figures show ability to work from home differs greatly by factors such as age, job type and education

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Workers with degree-level education are 10 times more likely to have a hybrid working arrangement than those with no qualifications, according to official figures that suggest a societal divide has formed since the first Covid lockdowns.

Almost five years since the start of the pandemic, the Office for National Statistics said hybrid working – part travelling to work, and part at home – appeared to be “here to stay” for some workers more than others.

Deliciously earthy and savoury mushroom tacos with celeriac slaw and peanut sauce

A mixture of chestnut and oyster mushrooms works so well in this easy, weeknight taco feast. I love the spicy mushrooms piled on to warm tortillas with the peanutty celeriac slaw and soured cream (although my husband declines the latter because it detracts from the heat). Don’t hate me for suggesting that you grate celeriac on a weeknight – if you have a food processor with a coarse grater attachment, it is the work of seconds, and one small celeriac will give you enough slaw to go with tomorrow’s lunch, too.