2021 is set to be the best year for new British groups in over a decade as The Lathums join list of homegrown breakthroughs

All hail Claire Byrne who has become a national hero after calling out Nigel Farage on air during Monday’s installment of Claire Byrne Live.

An airline has launched new routes to the US and the Caribbean from Manchester Airport as international travel picks up again.

Ant Anstead and Renée Zellweger have taken their love to New Orleans. The British TV presenter, 42, paid a visit to his Oscar winner girlfriend, 52, while she filmed her upcoming true crime limited series The Thing About Pam in Louisiana. Ant shared a snapshot with Renée on Instagram on October 18, calling his girlfriend of four months “magical.”

So in love! Renée Zellweger and Ant Anstead are still going strong, as proven by their social media PDA.

Restaurant chain Fridays has picked Manchester to launch its first-ever live music experience with weekly performances from exciting local bands and DJs on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

The celebrated film and stage director Sam Mendes tonight tests the post-Covid viability of a new Broadway with The Lehman Trilogy, the story of the financial family dynasty that crashed along with the global economy in 2008. The show nearly opened the pandemic turned the lights out at all Broadway houses, rendering New York City a ghost town.

Sunflower Bean have released their first new music of 2021 with the track ‘Baby Don’t Cry’.

Embankment and Cross City have sold out on The Son, Florian Zeller’s second feature following the Oscar winning The Father.

The £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit, which was introduced last March in response to the coronavirus pandemic, was scrapped on October 6 in a move that will affect thousands of people across Scotland and nearly 5.9 million across the UK in total - some 5.2 million households.

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Official Charts Company, analysis from the UK record labels association the BPI found that 11 of the first 39 weeks of this year (28 per cent) saw a different British group bag a Number One album.This figure in 2019 was 15 per cent, with a slight increase to 17 per cent in 2020. It comes after The Lathums hit the top spot last week (October 1) with their debut full-length ‘How Beautiful Life Can Be’.

iOS - Android Three Rutherglen Links will become Powerhouse Fitness’ new headquarters when their 35 employee team moves into the building in October.The fitness equipment supplier was founded in Glasgow in 1980 and has grown to operate in nine stores across the UK, in addition to another 57 stores across eight countries.Rutherglen Links Business Park - built on previously derelict land and aimed at attracting new and expanding businesses to the area - is positioned off Junction 2 on the M74

You can’t argue with a toddler.

Coldplay headlined the New York leg of Global Citizen Live over the weekend, where they performed their new collaboration with BTS, ‘My Universe’.While BTS were not physically at the concert, the group were featured as holographs on a backdrop while Coldplay frontman Chris Martin sung in both English and Korean.

Manhattan themed Scots restaurant 63rd and 1st has a special 'Billionaire Row' drinks menu for high rollers who want to live it up. The flagship UK restaurant in Glasgow's Bothwell Street is the first to come to the UK, and it is being opened by the company behind TGI Fridays.