4 hours ago Eleanor Lawson,Sarah Julian BBC A video of Nat Sweeney dancing before the concert has been retweeted by Nicki Minaj A dance teacher has gone viral on social media after entertaining the crowd before a Nicki Minaj concert in Birmingham. Nat Sweeney from Moseley was waiting for the gig to start at Resorts...
The first head-to-head general election debate will be hosted by ITV next week, the broadcaster has confirmed. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will face each other on Tuesday, 4 June, at 21:00 BST. The hour-long programme – titled Sunak v Starmer: The ITV Debate – will be moderated by presenter...
Undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury are set to meet in a rematch on 21 December, according to the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s general entertainment authority. Usyk beat Fury by split decision to become the first undisputed champion of the four-belt era on 18 May. A rematch was said to be in the...
Organisers of a music festival that has been running for the past 60 years have announced that this year’s event will be their last. The family behind Towersey Festival, which started in Oxfordshire, said they have to “bow out after this year”. They cited “economic challenges” caused by the Covid-19 pandemic as one of the...
Colombia’s Congress has passed a bill which will ban bullfighting across the Andean country from 2027. The ban is the culmination of a vocal campaign by animal rights activists, who have long argued the practice is cruel. Bullfighting was introduced in Colombia by the Spanish during colonial times and became very popular, drawing thousands of...
Junior doctors in England are to stage a five-day strike in the lead up to the election in their long-running pay dispute with the government. Members of the British Medical Association will walkout from 07:00 BST on 27 June. The union has asked for a 35% pay rise to make up for what it says...
59 minutes ago Shyamantha Asokan,BBC News, West Midlands Staffordshire Police/Family handout Dafydd Hûw Craven-Jones (left), who studied at Ellesmere College, and Morgan Jones died in the crash on Saturday A teenager who died in a car crash at the weekend has been described by his college as a “caring and considerate” young man who loved...
Lawyers for singer Nick Carter have described claims of sexual assault made against him in a new documentary as “outrageous”. Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter, released this week, includes allegations about the Backstreet Boys singer from three women. Melissa Schuman, Shannon Ruth and Ashley Repp have alleged assaults during the early 2000s and are...
Authorities have warned that power cuts could last for days in Texas, where hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses remain disconnected from the power grid after another night of severe weather. A teenager died on a construction site on Tuesday when a partly-built house collapsed in a storm. Texas was among the states earlier...
11 minutes ago Thomas Mackintosh,Katy Austin Watch: How chaos onboard Singapore Airlines SQ321 unfolded Early investigations into severe turbulence that hit a Singapore Airlines flight last Tuesday reveal it dropped around 178ft (54m) over 4.6 seconds. One British passenger died and dozens more were injured when the London-Singapore flight encountered the turbulence over Myanmar and...