3 h. ago Huge new UK festival an hour from Manchester announced for summer 2026

The new music festival will be held in Roundhay Park in Leeds and will take place in the summer of 2026

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19 h. ago Music festival cancels German orchestra over ‘lack of clarity’ on Israeli conductor’s views

Belgium’s Flanders Festival Ghent accused of ‘blatant antisemitism’ by German government after pulling performance by Munich Philharmonic

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21 h. ago Old Celtic and Rangers rivals set to join forces for Ayr Gold Cup draw

The draw for next Saturday's showpiece will kick off proceedings on the three day event.

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22 h. ago Start time for Pokemon Go September Community Day and everything you can expect from Flabébé's event

Pokemon Go's latest Community Day event is here, and it's all about the adorable Flabébé, with some special moves, and the chance to get coloured variations of it. Here's what you need to know

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29 h. ago Truth behind Charlie Kirk 'witch curse' as feminist site said it 'probably' wasn't ethical

Days before Charlie Kirk was murdered during an outdoor speaking event, a feminist website paid for him to be cursed by witches on Etsy – and we've done a deepdive into it

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46 h. ago Thomas Skinner tries to gloss over THAT Strictly meltdown as he shares cheesy photo from the stylist's chair while enjoying show makeover after issuing apology over his behaviour

The former Apperntice star, 34, issued an apology on social media on Wednesday, a day he grabbed a journalist's phone at the event, before storming out.

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3 d. ago Black Isle Calling 2025: Full music festival lineup, day splits, tickets, travel details

It’s one of the last music festivals of the year.

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4 d. ago The one change that worked: I sobered up – and started to listen to what my body was telling me

After years of partying, I realised the exhaustion and anxiety weren’t worth it, and turned my back on Friday night Fomo. I still enjoy the dancefloor, but I always know when to leaveMost of my adult life has revolved around music: clubs, bars, festivals, house parties – anywhere I could dance to loud music. I loved how energising and cathartic it was to get immersed in it, to lose myself a little and move my body expressively without judgment. I’d get so absorbed that I would lose track of time; once, at Burning Man, I was awake for 36 hours exploring the festival, meeting new people and partying.When I became a DJ, these kinds of events increased. Late nights out would last until the morning. Often, they became marathon weekend sessions, which ran from Friday night to Sunday lunchtime. It wasn’t all dancing and shenanigans – there would be moments to sit around and chat with people, too. I’d be out at least three times a week. Even though I’d get tired, I would always find some wa...

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4 d. ago EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert review – Baz Luhrmann’s electric yet avoidant documentary

Toronto film festival: the bombastic director’s second film about the music legend shows the singer at his most mesmerizing but the picture remains incompleteBaz Luhrmann now has two Elvis movies under his bedazzled belt. The first is his epic biopic starring Austin Butler and now he has unleashed another called EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, remixing archival material with never-before-seen footage from the singer’s residency in Las Vegas. What’s remarkable about them both, apart from the director’s obvious affinity for his subject’s showmanship, is his refusal across so many hours of jiggling and swivelling to meaningfully hold Elvis to account.Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated 2022 film acknowledged Elvis’s cultural appropriation: how his phenomenal success owed so much to the R&B, gospel and rock he grew up around and the racist institutions that put him on a pedestal while holding down the Black artists that birthed and gave that music its soul. The movie also painted Elvis as a ...

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4 d. ago Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris

The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rugSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreOne hundred and twenty miles from Westminster, it felt like I had arrived at the perfect place to understand the meaning of Angela Rayner’s exit from the government: Reform UK’s brief conference, a giddy and surreal gathering of about 10,000 people in a hangar-like box on the edgelands of Birmingham.News of her resignation broke a couple of hours into the event’s first day, and the symbolism was glaring. Among midday pints, onstage pyrotechnics and a huge stand advertising the wonders of investing in gold, a party led by those bumptious public schoolboys Nigel Farage and Richard Tice was suddenly rejoicing in the departure of British politics’ most prominent working-class woman. The news, moreover, only boost...

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5 d. ago Heavily pregnant Shaughna Phillips proudly posts photos with baby dad after jail release

Pregnant Shaughna Phillips posts loved up picture with her baby father and boyfriend as they enjoy a rare family day out at a music festival in Beckenham following his jail release

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5 d. ago Festival director: Roma culture needs to gain same status as Irish music in Scotland

The Ando Glaso Roma Fest wants to highlight Roma culture and music

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5 d. ago Ronan Keating brings out Bryan Adams during Radio 2 in the Park set

Keating, who began his career in the boyband Boyzone in 1993, took the main stage at the Chelmsford music festival on Saturday afternoon.

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5 d. ago Apple iPhone 17 release date and everything we know about 'awe

Apple is holding a major launch event in just a few days and we are giving fans a glimpse of what's to come.

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7 d. ago Beaming Duchess of Edinburgh dons glamorous navy gown as she kicks off four

The Duchess of Edinburgh was stylish as ever in a navy gown - as she kicked off her four-day visit to Alberta in Canada with a glitzy dinner.

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9 d. ago From the Archives: Ken Walton on the first ever Lammermuir Festival

Over the last 15 years the Lammermuir Festival has become one of the highlights of Scotland’s classical music calendar, and the 2025 edition is about to take place in venues all around East Lothian. Back in September 2010, however, it was still just an idea. Scotsman classical music critic Ken Walton spoke to co-artistic directors James Waters and Hugh Macdonald about their plans for the inaugural event

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9 d. ago End of the Road: the best festival for discovering new music

The summer-ending festival for fans of eclectic music was this year also a show of strength in both its line-up and in keeping its personal, ramshackle origins in place

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9 d. ago Xi Jinping says world faces ‘peace or war’, as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong

Trump criticises victory day event as China caps off a week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as a rebuke to the westXi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace or war as he held China’s largest-ever military parade, flanked by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as a rebuke to the west.Putin and Kim, the authoritarian leaders of Russia and North Korea, are among dozens of world leaders attending the parade, a massive display of military hardware and personnel, orchestrated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, which China calls the Japanese War of Aggression. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Xi Jinping says world faces ‘peace or war’, as Putin and Kim join him for military parade

Trump criticises victory day event as China caps off a week of diplomatic grandstanding seen as a rebuke to the westXi Jinping said the world was facing a choice between peace or war as he held China’s largest-ever military parade, joined by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in a show of defiance to the west.Putin and Kim, the authoritarian leaders of Russia and North Korea, were among dozens of world leaders who attended the parade, a massive display of military hardware and personnel, orchestrated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war, which China calls the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Continue reading...

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1 week ago First sponsors event at Wishaw Golf Club is an incredible day of community spirit

The inaugural tournament drew together 23 teams for a Texas Scramble

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