12 h. ago UK politics live: Thornberry and Haigh make Labour deputy leader pitches as race heats up

Labour’s national executive meeting to draw up plans for contest today

Politics

14 h. ago UK politics live: Starmer accused of deputy leader race ‘stitch

Labour’s national executive meeting to draw up plans for contest today

Politics

15 h. ago UK politics live: Emily Thornberry ‘first to jump into Labour deputy leader race’ as contest to kick off

Labour’s national executive meeting to draw up plans for contest today

Politics

16 h. ago UK politics live: Labour to launch deputy leadership race after Starmer completes cabinet reshuffle

Labour’s national executive meeting to draw up plans for contest today

Politics

22 h. ago Inside the budget New York hotel with a live music venue and underground club

This Lower East Side hotel is not only in the centre of one of the city's most eclectic boroughs, but is home to a live music venue, a rooftop bar, and an underground nightclub.

Society

3 d. ago 'I thought NYC would be brutal on my wallet but I lived the high life on a budget'

Can you really visit one of New York's most upmarket borough's on a budget? I visited this wallet-friendly hotel and felt like I was staying in a boutique haven.

Politics

4 d. ago Sam Fender’s arena tour gives huge cash boost to UK’s grassroot venues

Sam Fender’s 2024 arena tour raised more than £100,000 for grassroots music venues.

Politics

4 d. ago Sam Fender’s tour raised £100,000 to boost grassroots music venues

Almost 40 venues in England, Scotland and Wales have benefitted from the funding.

Economics

5 d. ago Taylor Swift’s Eras tour helps fuel UK consumer spending on live music to record £6.7bn high

Report from Live shows spending £2bn higher than before Covid-19 shutdowns, although grassroots venues are still closing at an increasing rateUK consumer spending on live music events reached a record-breaking total of £6.68bn in 2024, up 9.5% on the previous year, fuelled in part by Taylor Swift’s blockbuster Eras tour.The report from Live (Live music Industry Venues and Entertainment), the recently formed body advocating for the British music industry’s interests before government, signals a full-bodied return from the effects of Covid-19. The figures are 28.2% higher than in 2022, when live music more or less resumed after the pandemic, and more than £2bn more than in 2019, the last fully functioning year for live music prior to the shutdown. Continue reading...

Economics

7 d. ago Keir Starmer admits he would not want to live next to an asylum hotel as his desperate 'phase two' government relaunch is ridiculed

Keir Starmer stressed he wanted the facilities to shut in an 'orderly' way but acknowledged that the 2029 target for getting rid of them needs to be brought forward.

Politics

7 d. ago Epping hotel protest LIVE as full reasons given for court overturning ban

Last week, the Court of Appeal scrapped an injunction that would have forced the 138 migrants living at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, to leave by September 12

Events

8 d. ago Live updates as protesters and counter protesters gather outside Manchester hotel

Greater Manchester Police say officers are working to 'minimise disruption' for people in the area

Society

8 d. ago Live updates as protesters and counter protesters exchange chants outside Manchester hotel

Crowds are chanting at each other and exchanging insults

Society

9 d. ago Migrant protests LIVE: Epping hotel ruling sees more demo chaos planned today

The landmark Epping hotel ruling handed down on Friday has caused outrage among right-wing groups, with anti-migrant protesters and their opponents set to materialise outside of hotels today

Events

1 week ago Home Office wins court appeal to keep asylum seekers at protest

The Court of Appeal found that the temporary injunction issued by the High Court included a ‘number of errors’

Events

1 week ago Epping asylum hotel latest: Home Office wins appeal to house migrants at protest

The Court of Appeal found that the temporary injunction issued by the High Court included a ‘number of errors’

Society

1 week ago Epping Bell Hotel LIVE: Bombshell court ruling due on asylum seekers' futures

Senior judges will today rule on whether to overturn a court ruling to block asylum seekers from being housed at Epping's Bell Hotel after a wave of protests this summer

Events

1 week ago Epping asylum hotel latest: Judges to rule on overturning injunction after migration protests

Dozens of local authorities say they will seek legal advice on halting the use of hotels to house asylum seekers following the interim injunction granted to Epping Council

Events

1 week ago Paisley staff 'heartbroken' as popular music venue to close after a decade

The Cave in the town centre will pull down the shutters on Saturday, September 13.

Culture

1 week ago Virgin’s first London hotel lets you live out a 1970s record label executive fantasy

Virgin’s first London hotel lets you live out a 1970s record label executive fantasy  The Independent

Society