9 h. ago Huge Masked Singer twist as show gets biggest ever upgrade for new series

The Masked Singer is soon set to return to our screens with presenter Joel Dommett at the helm and some famous faces on the judging panel

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12 h. ago Huge Masked Singer twist as for the first time ever the series will include two BANDS

THE Masked Singer has introduced a mad twist for the new series which will see two BANDS grace the stage.  It’s the first time ever, globally, the star-spangled guessing game will have such supersized performances.  In the opening episode, viewers will have to guess the identity of Goldfish, who fronts a group called No Trout. ...

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3 d. ago Two Bandra club bouncers booked for assaulting three patrons, including London resident | Mumbai news

Two Bandra club bouncers booked for assaulting three patrons, including London resident | Mumbai news  Hindustan Times

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1 week ago Huge noughties band announce 2026 world tour including UK dates

This will be the band’s first full UK and European tour since their World’s Collide Tour in 2022

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2 w. ago UK supermarkets set to be hit by higher business rates after Treasury U

Chancellor expected to use Budget to include large retail premises in the top band of the property-based levy

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2 w. ago Reeves to launch crackdown on benefit fraud alongside lifting two

Move aims to bring in extra £1.2bn of savings as government seeks to head off criticism over welfare spendingYou be the chancellor: play our budget gameRachel Reeves will launch a fresh crackdown on benefit fraud at the same time as lifting the two-child limit for universal credit at a cost of £3bn, as ministers seek to head off criticism over rising welfare spending in the budget.The chancellor has made the decision to scrap the two-child limit in full, a move that will be welcomed by Labour MPs who have long highlighted its effect on increasing child poverty.Freezing income tax thresholds for an extra two years to 2030, bringing more people into higher tax bands as wages rise.Making salary sacrifice schemes less generous, including those for pension contributions.A pay-per-mile scheme on electric cars to help fill the tax gap from petrol duty as more people opt for green vehicles.Bringing in higher tax on the most expensive properties, including a surcharge on the highest-value ho...

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3 w. ago FKA Twigs album Eusexua and Bob Geldof among Rolling Stone UK Awards winners

Other winners included Irish rock band The Cranberries, who received the icon award.

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3 w. ago Stone Roses' Mani dies as bandmate Ian Brown issues heartbreaking four word message

A number of tributes have been played to Gary Mani Mounfield including one from bandmate Ian Brown

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3 w. ago Huge funding boost to help restore historic Ayrshire bandstand

The funding includes £187,666 towards the ambitious Girvan Bandstand restoration project and £58,680 to ensure ACE’s outdoor education programme can be provided to every mainstream primary school in the fund’s area of operation.

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4 w. ago ‘We had to dumb ourselves down to fit in’: Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford on finally making the first album they wrote as teens

Written in 1974, the Bowie-influenced songs on Trixies are set in a fictional south London nightclub, but were shelved when punk took the band in a new direction. Now, after Squeeze’s 50th anniversary, they’re seeing the light of dayIn September 1974, when they were hopeful teenage unknowns in Deptford, Squeeze created a concept album, Trixies, set in a fictional south London nightclub. Believing they had come up with a substantial work, they recorded the 10 tracks on a borrowed Revox tape machine and expected the world to fall at their feet. But nothing happened. “All our friends liked it,” says singer and lead guitarist Glenn Tilbrook, who turned 17 just before the recording. “But that was the only feedback we had.”The album was shelved, but less than five years later, the band began a run of classic hits, including Cool for Cats and Up the Junction, which had songwriting duo Tilbrook and fellow guitarist and vocalist Chris Difford hailed as heirs to Lennon and McCartney. Now, aft...

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