UPDATED: Rupert Murdoch and Ann Lesley Smith are no longer engaged, Deadline has confirmed, only weeks after news that the two were planning to tie the knot this summer. Smith was set to be wife No. 5 for the media mogul and chairman of Fox Corp.
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Farm shops have reported a huge sales boost over the past month amid the national supermarket fresh fruit and veg "crisis". Farm and small business owners say they hope it will now have a lasting impact in the way people choose to shop.
Shoppers have been faced with empty shelves on the fruit and veg aisles of major supermarkets in the past month amid "supply chain issues". Poor weather in north Africa and southern Europe hitting crops has been blamed, and some supermarkets took to rationing the number of items like tomoatoes, cucumber, salad and peppers customers were able to buy.
It has seen customers seek out other ways to buy their fresh veg items - and farm shops and farmers' markets have been big winners as a result. The Farm Retail association, which represents farm shops and farmers' markets across the UK, has today said there has been a big increase in demand in its sector.
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It points to farm shops and farmers’ markets, with their focus on locally-produced produce, having been able to offer customers a full range of fruit and vegetables. It says that is thanks to their short supply chains.
Farm Retail Association chairman Emma Mosey said: “The current issue really underlines the importance of being able to buy local produce. Our members sell vegetables that they either grow themselves or sourced from nearby growers so when there are issues further afield, they can step into the breach.
"Not only does this reduce food miles, it also ensures support for the smaller businesses which play a vital role in food production in the UK. Farm retailers are also happy to pay producers fair prices, even in times of hardship.
"They always put both the customer and the
UPDATED: Rupert Murdoch and Ann Lesley Smith are no longer engaged, Deadline has confirmed, only weeks after news that the two were planning to tie the knot this summer. Smith was set to be wife No. 5 for the media mogul and chairman of Fox Corp.
Amanda Owen has appeared to make a decision to take a week off from social media after it was alleged that she has been having an affair for five years.The Our Yorkshire Farm star and farmer, 48, who shares nine children with her estranged husband Clive Owen, 68, has embarked on a romance with lover Robert Davies. But Davies' now-estranged wife Yasumi has broken her silence on the reports, and claimed that he and Amanda first started seeing each other five years ago when he started working with the Owen family to take their business online.
Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has debuted another striking new look as the band played their first gigs of 2023 this week.On Thursday (March 30), the band began their rescheduled UK and European tour in Munich, playing hits from across their career.The show also saw a new wardrobe for Durst, who surprised fans in the summer of 2021 by debuting a dramatic new look that defined the band’s most recent era.While that style revolved around long lighter-coloured hair and a new handlebar moustache, the start of the new tour saw Durst embrace a country aesthetic, wearing dungarees and sporting a short-sleeved shirt, a red beanie and a long beard.See the new look below alongside footage from the Munich show.A post shared by Fred Durst (@freddurst)Loving Fred Durst's new look pic.twitter.com/fYBOqZYZmk— Scott Colothan (@scottcolothan) March 31, 2023Limp Bizkit were initially set to return to the UK last September for a run of dates, including a two-night billing at the O2 Academy Brixton in London. However, those gigs were ultimately postponed due to Durst’s “personal health concerns”.Over the summer, Limp Bizkit told their fans that the frontman had been advised to take an “immediate break from touring” on medical grounds, and said the dates would be rescheduled.After two concerts in Germany, Limp Bizkit are due to make stop-offs in Vienna, Prague, Frankfurt and Tilburg before visiting Manchester on April 12.Tickets for the original 2022 dates remain valid – you can find any remaining tickets (UK) here and see the dates below.APRIL 202312 – Manchester Academy, Manchester 13 – O2 Academy, Birmingham 17 – Wembley Arena, LondonLimp Bizkit released their sixth and latest studio album, ‘Still Sucks’, in October 2021.
Thania Garcia The Cure‘s Robert Smith continues his long-drawn-out battle against the many monetary hurdles of the ticketing world — this time, he’s taking on secondary resale websites. Just a few weeks ago, Smith was able to secure several refunds from Ticketmaster for fans looking to catch the British band on their forthcoming “Lost World” tour. Now, Smith says they’ve managed to cancel 7,000 scalped tickets and further announced a plan to donate the original fees to the charity Amnesty International. Meanwhile, tickets will be resold to fans. When the tour — the band’s first North American trek in seven years — was first announced on March 9, the Cure opted out of Ticketmaster’s “platinum” and “dynamically priced” ticket options, both of which have infamously been the cause of a massive uptick in ticket prices.
Hugh Grant is looking back at his movie career!
Taylor Swift has shared an acoustic version of her recent single ‘Lavender Haze’ – listen to it below.The original song appears on the pop star’s 10th and most recent studio album, the record-breaking ‘Midnights’, which came out last October.Swift today (March 31) released a stripped-back rendition of the track on streaming platforms. It comes after she dropped a series of official remixes of ‘Lavender Haze’ by the likes of Jungle and Tensnake.Last November, Swift shared an acoustic version of the ‘Midnights’ lead single ‘Anti-Hero’.‘Lavender Haze’ peaked at Number Three on the UK singles chart, per the Official Charts.
Although he is rightly judged as being in the vanguard of British independent cinema, Mark Jenkin nonetheless seems out of place in such company. Unlike his contemporaries—Peter Strickland, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, Clio Barnard, and Jonathan Glazer, among others—he is a strict formalist, creating expressions through the rhythms and combinations of images and sounds rather than through conventional narratives or theatrical gestures.
Hugh Grant is getting candid about one career move he's not proud of. The 62-year-old British actor was a guest on Wednesday's episode of , and he played a game of «Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts» with his co-star, Chris Pine.During the game, Grant was asked to name a movie he wanted erased from his IMDB page.
British star Hugh Grant believes there would be more affairs and love, actually, on film sets if not for smartphones. While discussing his upcoming project "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves," Grant reflected on the industry and how it has changed. "Films are so weird now," he told Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert." "You know in the old days … by the end of the second week, you were all getting drunk in the evening and having dinner and falling in love with each other, and all that." "And all that stopped ‘cause of telephones … Everyone goes home and looks at Twitter," Grant lamented.
to having “tantrums” on set during filming. Grant recently courted controversy during the Oscars after his red-carpet interview with model Ashley Graham went viral.
Two former Castle Douglas High School pupils are on the trip of a lifetime in Africa.
Toyah Willcox and her husband, King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp have covered The J. Geils Band’s ‘Centerfold’ – check it out below.The couple performed the 1981 hit single as part of their Sunday Lunch series.The song featured on the album ‘Freeze Frame’ and it went to the top of US Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1982 for six weeks.
Kate Middleton is today launching a business taskforce to support her campaign to transform early childhood development. The Princess of Wales, 41, is hosting the inaugural meeting of the taskforce at NatWest’s headquarters in the City of London on Tuesday – arriving for the event in an effortlessly chic outfit that included a cream blazer, black cigarette trousers and simple black court heels.The global firms and major brands on board include Unilever, Ikea, Deloitte, Lego, Aviva, Co-op and Iceland.
Drew Barrymore is standing by her friend Hugh Grant. After the British actor was highly criticized for his viral interview with model Ashley Graham, Barrymore is defending her "Music and Lyrics" co-star. "If you know Hugh, that is his way of loving you," Barrymore explained during her talk show, "The Drew Barrymore Show." "People are like, ‘Oh, he's such a curmudgeon and she's so thrown.’ I'm like, ‘no, that is Hugh Grant.
The View on Thursday (March 16), Grant was asked about his campaigns against the British tabloid press.“Everyone thinks, ‘Oh, well he’s just bitter because he got arrested with a hooker in 1995,’” Grant said.Co-host Whoopi Goldberg interjected: “But you know what, really, who hasn’t?”Hugh Grant on being a longtime critic of the British tabloid press: "These big newspaper owners, largely non-taxpayingnewspaper owners, are living above the law.""No one dares to take them on in Britain because they're so scared of them, especially politicians." pic.twitter.com/r22GFNZcKc— The View (@TheView) March 16, 2023The actor then continued: “But actually it had nothing to do with that because that was never uncovered by tabloids. It was that the bloody police gave everyone the information.
remarks he made at the 2023 Oscars, Grant poked fun at former co-star Barrymore’s singing during a Wired interview alongside his “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” castmates Chris Pine and Michelle Rodriguez.During the interview, Grant, 62, was answering “the web’s most-searched questions” and was asked if he actually sang in the 2007 rom-com “Music and Lyrics.”The British actor admitted that he does sing, but he’s “auto-tuned beyond belief. Actually, that’s not true.
Drew Barrymore is playfully responding to recent remarks made by Hugh Grant that slammed her singing ability.The 62-year-old English actor recently sat down for an interview with , and reflected on his 2007 romcom with Barrymore, «Drew Barrymore was in that film with me and I don’t think she’d mind me saying her singing is just horrendous,» Grant admitted. «I’ve heard dogs bark better than she sings.»In response, Barrymoretook to Instagram to share a playful video of her singing their duet from the film, «Way Back into Love,» which Grant and Barrymore sang together for the film.«Oh, Hugh-bert, Hubert, that's for you,» Barrymore said after belting out a few lines.
Hugh Grant is joking about his infamous arrest. The 62-year-old actor appeared on Thursday's episode of , and made a quip about his 1995 arrest with a sex worker for «lewd conduct.»The moment happened when Sunny Hostin asked Grant about the reasons behind his outspokenness against how the British tabloids invade people's privacy.«Everyone thinks, 'Oh, well he's just bitter because he got arrested with a hooker in 1995,'» he said to uproarious laughter from the hosts and studio audience. «But actually it had nothing to do with that because that was never uncovered by tabloids.
@HackedOffHugh) addresses his viral joke at Sunday's #Oscars and tells us he was "extremely nervous about it!""I think I got away with it!" https://t.co/cVclFZQU98 pic.twitter.com/IGOv4JcEjcThe British actor shared that Sigourney Weaver, 73, told him that he doesn’t “look like a scrotum,” and her approval of the joke “relaxed” him.Goldberg then gifted Grant moisturizer “just in case.”“Would you mind if I moisturized during our interview?” Grant quipped.Notably missing from the Oscars conversation on “The View,” however, was any mention of Grant’s “rude” encounter with ABC Oscars red-carpet host Ashley Graham, 35.Grant was seen rolling his eyes at the end of the awkward interview, prompting one viewer to describe the star as “a total a–hole.”Graham asked Grant what his favorite thing about the Academy Awards was, and he paused before responding.“It’s fascinating. The whole of humanity is here.
Hugh Grant seems to have no problem revealing his candid thoughts, no matter how offensive they may be to others.