David Olusoga, Adil Ray, Meera Syal Among Celebrities Urging U.K. Ethnic Minorities to Take Up COVID-19 Vaccine

The Great British Bake Off’s (Channel 4) triumph as a format, look at the calibre of celebrities they’ve assembled for this five-week-long charity edition. Daisy Ridley! James McAvoy! Dame Kelly Holmes! Dizzee Rascal! David Baddiel! Often these editions are full of people who are famous for craving fame, but here there’s not a no-mark influencer or reality star in sight.

coronavirus strain in Scotland. The person travelled from Rio de Janeiro to Edinburgh via Paris on February 19 and has tested positive for covid-19 with with initial lab findings suggesting it may be the Brazil variant.

The BBC has announced the cast for SAS: Rogue Heroes, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s dramatized account of how Britain’s Special Forces unit was formed in the darkest days of World War Two.

direct to your inbox The speed at which BioNTech produced a viable coronavirus vaccine has been credited to the fact its workforce is more than 50 per cent female.

the UK’s biggest-ever girl band, she then became a style supremo, launching her eponymous fashion line to massive acclaim, and even taking home the prize for Designer Brand of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2011. But a lot has changed over the past ten years, and while Victoria Beckham used to be her family’s biggest money-spinner, she’s now scoring its biggest losses, as her fashion and beauty empire continues to lose millions.

Joel Corry, RAYE & David Guetta’s new collaboration BED is the highest new entry on this week’s Official Irish Singles Chart.

English actor David Dawson has reportedly landed a lead role in the upcoming movie My Policeman alongside Harry Styles and Emma Corrin.

Emmy-nominated David Oyelowo has signed on to star alongside Gugu Mbatha-Raw in The Girl Before, a four-episode limited series based on JP Delaney’s best-selling psychological thriller, from BBC One and 42.

Her fashion house was a roaring success when it launched in 2008, gaining an army of A-list fans. And just three years later, Victoria Beckham scooped the coveted Designer Brand of the Year title at the British Fashion Awards.

In less than two years, and across just three singles, Joel Corry has gone from largely unknown DJ to one of the UK's top dance-pop producers.

EXCLUSIVE: Thames, the Fremantle-owned producer behind Too Hot To Handle and Britain’s Got Talent, is one of a number of UK production outfits inserting controversial coronavirus clauses into crew contracts that could leave freelancers out of pocket and out of work for up to three weeks if a shoot is suspended.

David, 45, has been posting pictures of himself doing tricep dips and handstands, and running on a treadmill in a weighted vest (with the treadmill on a huge incline, no less) to his 65million Instagram followers. And the trainer behind his lockdown works? Former GB athlete and British judo champion Bobby Rich.

direct to your inboxEvery adult in the UK could receive the required two doses of a coronavirus vaccine by September, or 'maybe sooner', health bosses said tonight.Dr Clive Dix, chairman of the UK Vaccines Taskforce, said he was confident secure supply chains meant 'we can vaccinate as many people as the UK wants to vaccinate'.He said it could be 'August time or September time all done, maybe sooner if we need to'.The vaccine tsar's comments come as the Government today confirmed the number of

coronavirus pandemic.According to the Telegraph, David Chadwick of Verifiable Credentials has confirmed the electronic certificate creators have discussed a deal with one theatre and cinema complex in the UK to trial such technology.Chadwick explained that Verifiable Credentials would create these electronic certificates with which people could prove they have been vaccinated, by showing them on their smartphone.The certificate would have to be shown alongside the booking confirmation in order

Black and British: A Forgotten History, will front a new one-hour special called Our International NHS for BBC One and BBC iPlayer later this year.The film will celebrate “the immigrant workforce that has been the backbone of the NHS, from its inception 70 years ago to the current pandemic”.“Throughout its history, the NHS has drawn in doctors, nurses, specialists and support staff from overseas, and without them the NHS would simply have collapsed, unable to deliver on its foundational promise

EXCLUSIVE: British soccer star David Beckham is lacing up his boots to produce a documentary mini-series about the feud between sports brands Adidas and Puma.