3 d. ago Florence + The Machine announce Everybody Scream 2026 tour with big Manchester date

The UK and European tour will take place in February and March 2026 - and tickets will be on sale in just a matter of days

Politics

6 d. ago Tickets for Europe’s largest indoor funfair in Glasgow go on sale this week

The carnival is celebrating its 106th year this festive season.

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6 d. ago Boots' £10 cream that keeps skin 'wrinkle free' and 'looking 20 years younger'

Boots' online exclusive flash sale has returned for another week.

Economics

1 week ago The art of the city: a walking tour of Edinburgh’s best landscape sculptures

Start with Andy Goldsworthy’s earthy installations at the Royal Scottish Academy, then head outdoors to discover more of his work, alongside pieces by Barbara Hepworth, Antony Gormley and Charles JencksA distinct farmyard smell lingers near the muddy Sheep Paintings. People walk slowly between two dense hedges of windfallen oak branches, or stand silently in a fragile cage of bulrush stems with light seeping through the mossy skylight overhead. I’m visiting the largest ever indoor exhibition of work by Andy Goldsworthy, one of Britain’s most influential nature artists. His recent installations have a visceral sense of rural landscape: hare’s blood on paper, sheep shit on canvas, rusty barbed wire, stained wool, cracked clay.The show is a sensory celebration of earth – its textures and temperatures, colours, character. The seasons cycle through an ongoing multidecade series of photos featuring the same fallen elm. There are leaf patterns and delicate woven branches, crusts of snow, l...

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1 week ago Vienna announced as host city for Eurovision song contest 2026

Final of 70th edition of competition to be held on 16 May at the Wiener Stadthalle, Austria’s largest indoor arenaVienna has been chosen to host the Eurovision song contest 2026, the world’s biggest live televised music event, Austria’s public broadcaster announced, with the final set for 16 May.Austria’s JJ won this year’s competition, held in Basel in Switzerland, with his song Wasted Love, which blends techno beats with operatic vocals – making his home country the 2026 host. Continue reading...

Culture

2 w. ago London Theatre Week: London’s biggest West End theatre sale is back for summer 2025

London Theatre Week: London’s biggest West End theatre sale is back for summer 2025  Time Out Worldwide

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2 w. ago London Theatre Week: London’s biggest West End theatre sale is back for the summer

London Theatre Week: London’s biggest West End theatre sale is back for the summer  Time Out Worldwide

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3 w. ago British holidaymakers jetting to Europe will have to prove they have a return ticket and medical insurance under EU border crackdown

A digital system for arrivals into the European Union will come into force from October 12, The Times reports.

Science

3 w. ago Timetables, tricky tickets and high prices: the problems with European cross

For all the fanfare over new routes, fast and efficient rail services between major cities remain a rarityExpanded high-speed rail network part of vision for Europe, says EU’s transport chiefAt 9.55am every day since December, a German ICE high-speed train has left the Gare de l’Est in Paris headed, via Strasbourg, Karlsruhe and Frankfurt, for Berlin Hauptbahnhof, where – all being well – it pulls in just over eight hours later.Remarkably, the service is the first direct, high-speed, centre-to-centre rail link between the capitals of the EU’s two biggest countries. Run by Deutsche Bahn (DB) and France’s SNCF, it has been hailed as a milestone in European train travel. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago UK largest indoor water park "shocked" and "saddened" after death of little girl

Despite best efforts of staff and paramedics at the poolside of Waterworld in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, the tragic tot was pronounced dead in hospital.

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