Greta Thunberg tells Glastonbury Festival 'we're in the beginning of a climate emergency'

William Hill have suspended betting on the Arctic Monkeys headlining Glastonbury next year. A flood of activity saw the band’s odds crash from 6/1 to 6/4, and the bookmaker has now frozen all further bets on the Arctic Monkeys being booked for a top slot on the Pyramid Stage.

BritBox International, the streamer run by the BBC and ITV, has restructured, talked up U.S. growth and communicated its desire to avoid “transatlantic puddings” to a room of some of the UK’s most successful drama producers.

AJ Tracey has joined the packed line-up for Open’er Festival 2022.The Polish festival, which is held at Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport in Gdynia, kicks off today (June 29) and will run until the early hours of Sunday (July 3).Headliners at the 2022 festival include A$AP Rocky, The Killers, Dua Lipa, Playboi Carti and Twenty One Pilots.AJ Tracey has now joined the line-up, with his performance at Open’er Festival set to take place on the Tent Stage at 1:15am on the final day of the festival.The likes of Måneskin, Imagine Dragons, Clairo, The Smile, Little Simz, Inhaler and Jehnny Beth are all set to perform at Open’er Festival later today, with A$AP Rocky topping the bill later this evening.A post shared by Open'er Festival (@opener_festival)Tomorrow at Open’er will feature live performances from Royal Blood, Glass Animals, Tove Lo, Years & Years, BadBadNotGood and Don Toliver.You can find out more information about this year’s Open’er Festival by heading here.Earlier this month, AJ Tracey officially released ‘Seoul’, a track he first debuted during a freestyle for the New York rap show On The Radar.You can see Tracey’s upcoming tour dates below and find UK tickets here.July1 – Wknd Fest, Helsinki, Finland2 – Forbidden Forest, East Midlands7 – Rolling Loud, Portimão, Portugal9 – Crystal Palace Park, London10 – Nass, Bath24 – Solnaro, Braga, Portugal31 – Loosefest, NewcastleAugust6 – Sunny Hill, Kosovo12 – Way Out West, Gothenburg, Sweden13 – Øya, Oslo, NorwaySeptember3 – Sundown, Norwich11 – Rolling Loud, Toronto, Canada

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentScandinavia’s leading streamer Viaplay has ordered “End of Summer,” a psychological thriller based Anders de la Motte’s bestselling Swedish novel of the same name.Jens Jonsson (“Young Wallander”) and Henrik Georgsson (“The Bridge”) are on board to direct the series which is penned by Björn Carlström (“Jägarna”) and Stefan Thunberg (“Wallander’) as head writers. Per Janérus at Harmonica Films is producing with SF Studios and Film i Skåne.A Viaplay Original, “End of Summer” will premiere on the platform in 2023.

Fans were delighted when Jamie Redknapp posted a sweet photo of himself with his baby son, Raphael. Some were quick to point out that he bears a striking resemblance to Jamie’s dad Harry Redknapp.

Cate Blanchett walks and talks with Woody Harrelson while attending the 2022 Glastonbury Festival together over the weekend.

Olivia Rodrigo made a statement at her first Glastonbury festival on Saturday as she brought out surprise guest, Lily Allen, to sing her 2009 hit "F--- You" song, and dedicated the anthem to the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v Wade just the day before.  Rodrigo, 19, introduced "incredible songwriter and artist" Allen to the stage and said: "Today is a very, very special day.This is actually my first Glastonbury, and I’m sharing the stage with Lily which is the biggest dream come true ever. But I’m also equally as heartbroken over what happened in America yesterday." The decision made by SCOTUS on Friday effectively ended recognition of a constitutional right to abortion which has been in place since 1973, and gives individual states the power to allow, limit or ban the healthcare practice altogether.  "The Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v Wade which is a law that ensures a woman's right to a safe abortion, another basic human right," Rodrigo said to the thousands of fans watching her first performance at the massive outdoor show.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOlivia Rodrigo used her set at England’s Glastonbury Festival to slam the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.

Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage this afternoon (June 25) addressing the urgency of the climate change emergency.Taking to the stage ahead of Haim’s slot on the main stage, Thunberg was introduced by festival organiser Emily Eavis as “the most inspiring speaker of this generation”. With paper notes to hand, she spoke for roughly ten minutes on a range of sustainability issues, critiquing Governmental ‘greenwashing’.“The biosphere is not just changing, it is destabilising, breaking down… unfortunately, this is not the ‘new normal’.

Phoebe Bridgers took over the Glastonbury Festival tonight (June 24) with some powerful words for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPhoebe Bridgers, who has been outspoken about the battle over abortion rights since news of Roe v. Wade’s impending overturn by the Supreme Court was first leaked earlier this year, made no bones about her feelings during her set at the Glastonbury festival in England on Friday.“In all honesty, [the festival is] like super surreal and fun, but I’m having like the shittiest day,” she told the crowd. “Are there any Americans here? What wants to say ‘Fuck the Supreme Court’ on three?,” she shouted before leading a chant of “Fuck the Supreme Court!” She concluded: “Fuck that shit.

As festival-goers gather at Glastonbury to enjoy one of the UK's biggest festivals, many will unfortunately be missing out.

Mark Sutherland Glastonbury Festival — the biggest live music event in Europe — gets into full swing today, for the first time since 2019.There will be 200,000 people on site in Somerset, in the west of England, watching thousands of performances across 93 different stages, including headliners Billie Eilish, Sir Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar, and Diana Ross in the highly prized Sunday afternoon ‘legends’ slot.And yet, somehow, Glastonbury is even bigger than those numbers suggest. First held in 1970 – when 1,500 hippies got free milk in exchange for their £1 entrance fee – the festival has developed into a national and international institution, as much a part of the traditional British summer as Wimbledon.

Glastonbury festival-goers “may need to take shelter if they can” as thunderstorms are set to sweep across much of southern England, a Met Office meteorologist has warned. Music lovers will be swapping sun cream for umbrellas at Worthy Farm as the weather is set to turn from “wall-to-wall sunshine” and high temperatures on Thursday morning to “heavy thundery downpours” in the afternoon.The Met Office issued a yellow thunderstorm warning stretching from Sheffield in the North, across the South East and down to Bath in the South West, meaning Glastonbury revellers could be caught in torrential downpours in Somerset.

Glastonbury Festival performance after the band had their flight cancelled. The band are due to play the Pyramid Stage tomorrow at 4:45pm ahead of Billie Eilish and Sam Fender . And it looks like they may just make it - just.

“misery” for people heading to Glastonbury Festival today (June 23), it seems travel has been largely unaffected by rail strikes.Passengers have been urged to avoid all but essential travel this week due to industrial action being carried out by the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union (RMT) with only five of the eleven trains that normally run between London Paddington and Castle Cary, near Glastonbury, in operation today.However, it seems that most punters took the advice of operator Great Western Railway and travelled yesterday (June 22) or will be heading down tomorrow (June 23).According to the BBC, a specially-constructed holding pen at Paddington Station designed to cope with large numbers of potential passengers had just 25 people in it shortly before the departure of the first train to Castle Cary this morning.