BMG to rep full Chemical Brothers songs catalogue

More than 50 Wilkos stores are to close with the loss of 1,016 jobs, administraors have confirmed.

Charlotte Hawkins made an unscheduled appearance on Wednesday's Good Morning Britain after she stepped in for Susanna Reid at the last minute. Starting the show, Charlotte, 48, explained: "Good morning to you, this is a bit of an unscheduled appearance for me this morning!" To which her co-host Ed Balls added: "I was about to say, you know, I came into the studio as usual about 4:30am.

The winners for the 2023 National Television Awards have been announced at a star-studded event in London. Happy Valley was the big winner of the night, picking up two awards, along with a special recognition gong for its star Sarah Lancashire.

Mariana Downing, representing the province of Sánchez Ramírez, was officially crowned the Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2023. The 27-year-old half-Dominican and half-British beauty pageant will now travel to El Salvador and try to win a second Miss Universe title for the Caribbean island.

Naman Ramachandran London’s National Theatre has unveiled the complete ensemble cast for Roald Dahl’s “The Witches,” a co-production with the Roald Dahl Story Company. The stage musical is directed by Lyndsey Turner (“The Crucible”), features book and lyrics by Olivier Award-winner Lucy Kirkwood (“Mosquitoes”) along with music and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Dave Malloy (“Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812”). Based on the 1983 novel by Dahl, the musical follows an English boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country.

Olympic gymnast Jessica Gadirova is gearing up for next year's Olympics, training full-time in the hope of being selected as part of the Great British team, but the sport certainly comes with its challenges. Jessica, 18 started gymnastics when she was around six years old and has already had a hugely successful career having taken home bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, become a European All-Around Champion, a three-time European Floor Champion and a World Floor Champion.

Chris Eubank Jr. is one of the most recognisable names in British boxing, having become an established figure within both the middleweight and super-middleweight divisions.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Aya Films has snatched all U.K. and Ireland rights to the Dominican Republic’s “Ramona” from Paris-based film company Alief SAS ahead of its BFI London Film Fest premiere. The docu-fiction hybrid, which had its world premiere at the 2023 Berlinale’s Generation 14Plus sidebar, will have its U.S.

Hundreds of schools across the UK may need to close due to potentially dangerous building materials.

Jeymes Samuel’s sophomore feature The Book of Clarence, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Boy and the Heron by Hayao Miyazaki are among the titles that have been announced within the full lineup of the British Film Institute’s (BFI) 67th London Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list.

EXCLUSIVE: UK management agency YMU is set to make up to 9% of staff redundant following a company review. At the same time, key lender Permira Credit will become its majority shareholder as part of the restructure, we can reveal.

Haim have announced a gig in London Shepherd’s Bush Empire which will see them play their debut LP ‘Days Are Gone‘ in its entirety.In honour of the album’s 10th anniversary, the sister trio – made up of Alana, Danielle and Este Haim – will be spending one night in the city that started it all for them with the album that kicked off their career. The show will take place on Thursday, August 31.Tickets for the show will go on pre-sale on Tuesday, August 29 at 12pm for fans who pre-order any format of the reissued 10th anniversary of ‘Days Are Gone’ on any format from the band’s official site.

Prince Harry will be returning to the UK to attend a charity event the day before the first anniversary of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth's death, it has already been confirmed. It will be the first time he's been in the UK since his grandmother's funeral.The Duke of Sussex announced he will be "honoured" to attend this year's award ceremony for a children's charity he has been patron of for 15 years.The WellChild Awards are taking place on Thursday 7 September, just one day before the Royal Family marks the first anniversary of the passing of the late Queen.

Gregg Wallace's replacement on Inside The Factory has been revealed after he was accused of ‘derogatory banter’ towards a female staff member.

The Chemical Brothers have teamed up with Beck on a new single called ‘Skipping Like A Stone’ – listen below.The song will appear on the electronic duo’s 10th studio album ‘For That Beautiful Feeling’, which is due for release on September 8 via EMI (pre-order/pre-save here).“The Chemical Brothers have a great predilection for exploration,” Beck explained of the collaboration in a statement.“They kind of sit in an unusual place between different eras of electronic music and DJ culture. It’s like they have one foot in multiple decades at the same time in a way that is utterly unique among their peers.”Tune in here:The Chemical Brothers – aka Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons – are set to release an official music video for ‘Skipping Like A Stone’, directed by their frequent collaborators Dom & Nic.“Working with the Chemical Brothers is a dream for any video director.

Serial baby killer Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars after receiving the UK's most severe punishment for her crimes.

New statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show there are now 12.6 million people across Great Britain receiving State Pension payments of up to £203.85 each week. Basic and New State Pensions are contributory benefits which provide crucial financial support to those who have paid at least 10 years’ worth of National Insurance contributions.

We all know how much the school holidays cost, so it's a welcome relief when there is any money to be saved.

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor has teamed up with SpongeBob SquarePants voice actor Tom Kenny for a special performance of the kids animation’s theme song.While at the Huntington Comic and Toy Convention in West Virginia this past weekend, Taylor was invited onstage to perform the SpongeBob theme song with Kenny, who voices the titular character and sang the original theme for Nickelodeon’s hit children’s show.“This is the most nervous I’ve ever been in my whole career,” Taylor said to the audience at the event’s outdoor stage. “How the hell did I get here, guys?”Watch the performance below.The collaboration has been a long time coming for Taylor, who has performed the song as a treat for fans at his solo shows dating back to 2011.Earlier this year, Corey Taylor quipped during a live show that he was growing tired of performing the showtune: “I’ve written over a hundred songs and you motherfuckers are screaming ‘SpongeBob’ at a grown ass fucking man.

Interpol performed their debut album ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ in full at San Francisco’s Outside Lands last week (August 11) to celebrate its 21st anniversary.The record was released in the UK on August 19, 2002, and on the following day in the US, and featured tracks like ‘NYC’, ‘PDA’ and ‘Obstacle 1’.The band played the album in full and in order of its tracklist as they appeared at the Californian festival on Friday, performing on the Sutro stage.In addition to all of ‘Turn The Bright Lights’, they also included two special bonus tracks in ‘Specialist’ – taken from their 2010 self-titled album – and ‘Evil’, which featured on Interpol’s second album, ‘Antics’. According to setlist.fm, the 2004 single ‘Slow Hands’ was also printed on the setlist, but not was not played.Watch footage of the performance and see the setlist in full below.‘Untitled’ ‘Obstacle 1’ ‘NYC’ ‘PDA’ ‘Say Hello To The Angels’ ‘Hands Away’ ‘Obstacle 2’ ‘Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down’ ‘Roland’ ‘The New’ ‘Leif Erikson’ ‘Specialist’ ‘Evil’In July, Interpol also played ‘Antics’ in full at a special gig in Paris, months ahead of the 19th anniversary of that album.