16 h. ago Refusal to dub China a threat was ‘total roadblock’ to spying case, says lead barrister

The director of public prosecutions said the failure to describe China as an active threat to national security was ‘fatal’ to the case

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19 h. ago ‘All roads lead to Grace Jones’: visual artists on the music that fires them up in the studio

Chris Ofili loves steel pans. Lindsey Mendick adores Self Esteem. And Ragnar Kjartansson enjoys everything from Bach to the Cure. Artists reveal the bangers that get their creative juices fizzingFrom Johannes Vermeer’s music lesson to Piet Mondrian’s tribute to boogie-woogie, with its small bars of colour flitting across the canvas to a radical new rhythm, art and music have made natural bedfellows. Now Peter Doig is celebrating his love of music with an exhibition at the Serpentine in London that pairs recent paintings with his favourite records played through an extraordinary sound system. So we asked other contemporary artists what music means to them. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Lavish 'Bollywood' wedding venue in Grade II mansion banned from holding ceremonies after blaring music and 'cannon fire' fireworks trigger PTSD of veteran neighbours

Hillingdon House, a grand white estate in suburban Uxbridge, west London has been ordered to shut after a six-year battle with neighbours over the constant noise and disruption.

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1 week ago Chris Hughes and Alun Wyn Jones to appear in new Celebrity MasterChef

The star-studded lineup, which includes TV star Ashley Cain and Paralympian Gaz Choudhry, will compete in the 20th series of the hit spin-off show.

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1 week ago Celebrate Halloween like an ancient Celt at the Scottish Crannog Centre

Expect fire performances, storytelling, live music from Celtic favourites Reely Jiggered, and the dramatic burning of the Wicker Bull, marking the turning of the seasons.

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2 w. ago Kate Bush and artists harness power of Running Up That Hill for War Child appeal

Musician invites 52 UK visual artists to create works based on song lyric to raise money for children affected by warKate Bush is harnessing the power of her global hit Running Up That Hill in collaboration with leading names in British art to raise money for children caught up in global conflicts.The singer-songwriter invited 52 visual artists to respond to her lyric “If I only could, I’d make a deal with God” from her 1985 anthem. One of her best-loved songs and hailed as “one of the greatest songs of all time” by Rolling Stone, it became a hit all over again in 2022 when it featured in the fourth season of the US TV series Stranger Things. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Triple Trouble: Fairey, Hirst, Invader review – the most revolting visual soup imaginable

Newport Street Gallery, London Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader join forces to make an exhibition that’s so bad, it’s like walking in on a crime sceneYou’ve heard of the best of both worlds, well get ready for the worst of three. Down in Vauxhall in London, three artists have mashed themselves together to create the most revolting visual soup imaginable, an exhibition that isn’t so much the sum of its parts as a total negation of anything good any of them has ever done.Whatever qualities YBA kingpin Damien Hirst and street artists Shepard Fairey and Invader might have, none of them are on display in this staggeringly vast exhibition – it just goes on and on, huge room after huge room filled with aesthetic crap. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ancient Celtic festival returns to Scottish city with fire show and music to welcome winter

The spectacular fire festival will illuminate Edinburgh this Halloween, celebrating the Celtic transition from summer to winter with fire, music and performance.

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4 w. ago Strictly’s Dianne Buswell and Waterloo Road star Hattie Dynevor lead the glamour at the Inside Soap Awards in London

THE stars were out in full force at the Inside Soap Awards in London tonight as Strictly's Dianne Buswell and Waterloo Road beauty Hattie Dynevor led the red carpet glamour. Pregnant Dianne, 36, turned heads in an off-white seventies vintage minidress, which covered her baby bump at London's One Ninetyfour in Piccadillyy. Hattie wowed in...

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