FROM the outset, the man in my life knew he was marrying the opposite of a domestic goddess. I told him, straight up, that I was a slob.

A survivor of the Aldgate attack today described being knocked out by the blast for 30 minutes and awaking to see a scene like a “video nasty”.

There could be an Oscar nomination awaiting Gyllenhaal after this magnificently gritty and realistic, yet warm-hearted, performance as an ex-con trying to re-establish herself in the life of her six-year-old daughter.