Pop singer CMAT says she is pulling out of the Latitude Festival in Suffolk, in protest at the event being sponsored by Barclays Bank. It follows a similar action at Brighton’s Great Escape Festival in May, where more than 100 artists pulled out over Barclays’ involvement. Campaigners have accused the bank of increasing its investment...
1 hour ago Tom Richardson,BBC Newsbeat Mojang New kid on the block: Minecraft will be Netflix’s latest animated show based on a video game Netflix has announced plans to release an animated series based on Minecraft. The best-selling video game of all time celebrates its 15th birthday this year, and the reveal dropped during an...
BBC Hundreds of Eurostar passengers are being held up at Gare du Nord in Paris due to technical delays. Eurostar said in a statement that a problem with UK Border Force e-gates had caused the delays. “We are sincerely sorry for the inconvenience caused,” the company said, advising customers to delay their journeys to London...
A leading London-based opera company has announced that it will permanently relocate to Sheffield within two years. English Touring Opera (ETO) will open a base in the city as part of its sponsor Arts Council England’s funding programme, enabling cultural organisations to leave the capital. The company was founded to bring opera to areas of...
Nigel Farage has “absolutely no interest” in striking an election deal with the Tories, as Reform UK proposed a tax on businesses for employing overseas workers. The Reform founder had suggested “we might have a conversation” about what the Tories could offer the party, remarks later dismissed as “banter” by Reform leader Richard Tice. Under...
A primary school teacher who stabbed her partner to death and buried his body in their garden has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years. Fiona Beal, 50, pleaded guilty to murdering Nicholas Billingham in April and was sentenced at the Old Bailey by Judge Mark Lucraft on Thursday. The partly mummified remains of...
BBC Shops around the country have ran out of Mothers Pride Scottish Plain loaves An iconic Scottish product has disappeared from shops after a packaging issue affected supply. Scottish Plain loaves by Mothers Pride have not been seen on bread shelves for about two weeks. Suppliers have blamed a “manufacturing issue” at Hovis, which makes...
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The Green Party has taken aim at Labour’s “timid” plan for government as it launched its general election campaign. Only a strong Green presence can “push” Labour to be bolder on climate, the NHS, and housing, party co-leader Carla Denyer said. The party said the Conservatives were “clearly on their way out”, so would focus...
PA Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has said Keir Starmer is not acting “in a factional way” as a row in the party over candidate selection for 4 July’s general election on 4 July rages on. Sir Keir has been accused of carrying out a “purge” of left-wing candidates and parachuting his own supporters into...