Music fans reckon they have figured out who The Bear from The Masked Singer is, and believe the show's disguised star is billed to headline Latitude Festival this summer

Kicking off in late February, the ten-day event will be a celebration of the town's vibrant food and drink scene

Canva have been announced as partners of the event which is hitting London for the first time this summer

Air, Kaiser Chiefs and Reggie Watts join Sting, Basement Jaxx and Greg Davies at Latitude 2025

'It’s going to be a really incredible weekend across the city'

Canva have been announced as partners of the event which is hitting London for the first time this summer

The stage adaptation by playwright Tom Wells will delight families over the festive period across a 10-week run at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

Playwright Tom Wells will adapt the story about the Big Friendly Giant who captures an orphan named Sophie and brings her back to Giant Country.

Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious congregation

Lunar New Year festivals and prayers are marking the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield

Officials had been preparing for months for the world’s largest religious festival, with around 400 million Hindu pilgrims expected to take part

Sundance film festival: A farcical tale of entitled New Yorkers arriving in rural Argentina to make a docuseries is too limp and underbaked to hit its targetsA fading television host, a shady producer and three bratty junior crew members walk into a hostel in rural Argentina. The setup – five self-involved New Yorkers in a sleepy, modest, provincial town to film “a whole new series on subcultures around the world” – practically begs for a punchline, or at least some fizzy, kinetic chaos.Magic Farm, Argentine-Spanish film-maker Amalia Ulman’s second feature (after 2021’s El Planeta), certainly tries to stir the pot, throwing its characters together into a hodgepodge of strange and lightly surreal situations. But for all its digressive meetups and self-assured one-liners – “maybe you should stop taking so much ketamine,” etc – it can’t land the joke.Magic Farm is screening at the Sundance film festival and is seeking distribution Continue reading...

Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival, Cample Line, Glenkens Community and Arts Trust, The Sove Network and Wigtown Festival Company will receive the funding over the next three years.

A company part-owned by Parklife Festival founder Sacha Lord was subject to an Arts Council investigation

For many Hindu pilgrims, bathing at the festival where three holy rivers meet is the spiritual journey of a lifetime. But as millions descended on this northeast Indian tent city, was it a disaster waiting to happen? Namita Singh reports from Prayagraj

Grieving families in India are cremating their loved ones while others are caring for their injured relatives in hospitals a day after a stampede

Festival worker Andrew Main, 33, from Falkirk, died in hospital after he was brutally battered by Joseph Dix and Macauley Ruddock.

Indian authorities have released an official statement on the death toll but it is expected to rise

Sundance film festival: In her feature debut, writer-director Eva Victor depicts the aftermath of sexual assault with striking naturalism and surprising graceBy now, a full week into Sundance, it is clear that the indie film festival is in a bit of a slump. While the Utah fest boasts an impressive and impassioned slate of documentaries this year – I haven’t seen a dud yet, and I’ve seen many – the narrative offerings have mostly fizzled on impact. Plenty of beautiful shots and atmospheric vibes, aimless plot and unearned yearning.Which made the premiere of Sorry, Baby, comedian Eva Victor’s feature debut as a writer-director, an especially brisk breath of fresh air on Monday night. Sharply written, smartly structured and well-acted, with a star-making turn from Victor herself, the 93-minute black comedy is not only nimble and consistently funny, but one of the best, most honest renderings of life after sexual assault that I’ve seen.Sorry, Baby is screening at the Sundance film festi...

New documentary The Alabama Solution exposes rampant state violence and inhumane conditions inside prisonsFloors streaked with blood, rat-infested cells, flooded hallways and routine beatings by officers – these are but some of the degrading conditions within Alabama state prisons revealed by leaked cellphone videos in a shocking, galvanizing new documentary that premiered at the Sundance film festival on Tuesday.The Alabama Solution, directed by Andrew Jarecki (The Jinx) and Charlotte Kaufman, reports on the inhumane living conditions, forced labor and rampant officer violence against the state’s incarcerated population, as told by inmates who served as confidential, covert sources. The two-hour film, made over the course of six years, also documents prisoners’ longstanding efforts to improve conditions deemed “unconstitutional” by the US justice department in a 2020 report, under constant physical threat from prison management. Despite federal calls for prison reform, Alabama’s pr...

Witnesses describe people describe surging crowds on the banks of the Ganges during Hindu festival

Indian authorities are yet to issue an official statement but death toll is feared to be as high as 50

Police Scotland carried out more breath tests and roadside drug tests during their 2024/25 festive campaign than they had in previous years.

Indian authorities are yet to issue an official statement but death toll is feared to be as high as 50

Belongings of Hindu devotees were left strewn on the ground after at least seven people died in multiple stampedes at India's Kumbh Mela festival.

Crush happened as pilgrims tried to jump over police barricades to reach Sangam Nose, the point where India's Ganges river meets Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers

Indian authorities are yet to issue an official statement but death toll is feared to be as high as 50

The world's largest religious festival, the Maha Kumbh Mela in India, has seen at least 15 people killed as millions throng at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers

Indian authorities are yet to issue an official statement but death toll is feared to be as high as 50

Hugo Burge spent his final decade turning Borders mansion house and estate into culture quarter

Utah leaders, locals and longtime attendees of the Sundance Film Festival are making their final push to keep the world-renowned independent film festival in the state as its directors consider uprooting it

Access to the Sundance Film Festival doesn’t require a trip to Park City, Utah anymore; Just an internet connection

Extra beds and a surge area for ICU were needed to cope with the numbers which caused major challenges over the festive period.