Earthquake hits part of country with rural village at epicentre

FKA twigs, the British singer who will star in a reboot of The Crow, has slammed a decision by the UK’s advertising watchdog to ban her semi-nude Calvin Klein ad.

Fans of Scots DJ Mallorca Lee were left devastated yesterday as he announced that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and, to honour him, they have launched an online campaign to get him to number one on the iTunes chart.

For all his controversies, audiences are still tuning in to Dave Chappelle.

Frank Sidebottom’s talk show. Check out the footage below.Soul, best known for playing Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson on Starsky & Hutch in the 1970s, died on Thursday (January 4), following what his wife Helen Snell described as a “valiant battle for life in the loving company of family”.He went on to have his own music career, with the UK Number One singles ‘Don’t Give Up on Us’ and ‘Silver Lady’, but it is a very different musical performance that has been doing the rounds on social media this weekend.Soul once appeared on Frank Sidebottom’s Proper Telly Show, a short-lived anarchic chat show that was broadcast on Channel M in Greater Manchester in 2006 and 2007.The show, hosted by the absurdist comedian Chris Sievey’s persona Frank Sidebottom, welcomed Soul as a guest on the December 1, 2006 episode, with the two of them ending the show by playing a seemingly impromptu version of The Fall’s 1987 single ‘Hit the North’.“He’s playing it, can you believe it!” Sidebottom says as Soul takes to the keyboard to open the track.

Princess Andre is looking to set herself up with a successful career one day and despite failing some of her GCSE exams she has already celebrated a huge milestone just five months on from her results.

Coronation Street star Sally Carman-Duttine has been flooded with compliments and well-wishes by her co-stars after undergoing a noticeable change. The actress is best known for playing Abi Webster in the ITV soap and has experienced some changes in her appearance over the years.

The BBC has brushed off complaints from Doctor Who viewers who argued that the inclusion of Yasmin Finney‘s transgender character Rose was “inappropriate.”

An earthquake was recorded just 12 miles away from the outskirts of Greater Manchester on Tuesday evening (January 2).

Danni Menzies returns to screens today as part of a long-awaited A Place in the Sun spin-off.

Michelle Keegan has been forced to deny rumours of plastic surgery amid reports her marriage with Mark Wright is in jeopardy as she prepares for the launch of her new blockbuster Netflix series.

Sydney Sweeney is responding to critics of her role in a recent Rolling Stones music video.

Bring Me The Horizon have announced that keyboardist and percussionist Jordan Fish has left the band.Fish had been part of the Sheffield rock band since 2012 and had been instrumental in shaping the band’s songwriting approach and modern sound by adding more electronic elements – particularly on 2013’s landmark record ‘Sempiternal’. He was also part of the band for 2015’s ‘That’s The Spirit‘, 2019’s ‘amo’ and 2020’s ‘Post Human: Survival Horror’.The band revealed the news in a statement, which read: “Bring Me The Horizon has decided to part ways with Jordan Fish. We want to thank him for the musical journey he took with us and wish him luck with everything in the future.

Netflix has a new YA hit on its hands with My Life With The Walter Boys.

has already been renewed for a second season. Everybody try to contain yourselves.“I am beyond thrilled that My Life With the Walter Boys has been renewed for a second season,” series creator Melanie Halsall told .

Selome Hailu Netflix has renewed “My Life With the Walter Boys” for a second season. The series is based on a WattPad novel of the same name by Ali Novak, which has since been published as a book. The coming of age story that follows fifteen-year-old Manhattanite Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez) after losing her family in a tragic accident.

Netflix has just renewed their new hit, My Life with the Walter Boys, for a second season!

Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance has been released by Signature Entertainment as the Craig Fairbrass-led film hits the home markets.Pat Tate (Craig Fairbrass, Cliffhanger) embarks on a rampage to avenge his loyal and trusted footsoldier’s violent death, venturing beyond his comfort zone of Essex into the dark side of 90s Soho to track down the villain responsible. Set to execute his revenge, Tate will stop at nothing even as the world around him starts to explode.

Mel B has hit out at former Kasabian member Tom Meighan being eligible for the 2024 BRIT Awards, despite him being convicted of domestic assault.The Spice Girls singer voiced her disappointment in a statement to The Independent – saying that she feels let down by the decision to have a singer convicted of abuse being eligible to win a BRIT Award.It comes after Meighan was among the acts included on the form for the voting academy for the 2024 edition.Meighan parted ways with the Leicester group in July 2020, shortly before being charged with assaulting his partner Vikki Ager – who he married the following year. He was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work.The BRIT buzz comes following the release of his solo album, ‘The Reckoning’, and he is eligible for Album of the Year, British Rock/Alternative Act, and Artist of the Year at next year’s ceremony.“I am deeply disappointed that an organisation so highly respected within the music industry should make a choice like this,” Mel B told the outlet.“You have to think what kind of message are you sending out to people when crimes of violence against women can be committed and then that person could be rewarded as part of a massively high profile awards event.

DC‘s 2019 film Joker is to be screened at London’s Royal Festival Hall with a live orchestra playing composer Hildur Guðnadóttir’s award-winning score.The show dubbed ‘Joker – LiveIn Concert’, will be staged at the venue on Wednesday, February 7 in 2024.It follows on from the previous concert series held in the UK in 2021.Pre-sale tickets go on sale this Wednesday (December 20) at 10am GMT before they go on general sale the following day (December 21) and can be purchased here.Reviewing the film starring Joaquin Phoenix previously, NME awarded it four stars and said it was a “melancholic psychodrama punctuated by splashes of shocking violence”.It added:”Todd Phillips isn’t clowning around. This is edge-of-your-seat stuff.

It's set to be a wet but somewhat mild week across Greater Manchester as we head towards Christmas. While there's a slim chance of snow falling in our area next week, it's the most northern parts of the UK that are more likely to get a dusting.