Indietracks festival won’t be returning due to ramifications of COVID

Paul Weller has cancelled his remaining UK tour dates “due to a band member testing positive for COVID-19”.The former Jam frontman hit the road last month in support of his latest solo album, ‘Fat Pop (Volume 1)’, which came out in May. So far, he’s played in Oxford, Liverpool, Sheffield, Glasgow and other cities.The Modfather was set to appear at the UEA LCR venue in Norwich tonight (December 3) before heading to Lincoln (4) and Cambridge (5).

Grandma Diane Vennix is finally preparing to fly home to her husband in Australia - after almost TWO YEARS stranded in Salford due to successive lockdowns and travel bans to Melbourne.

The Broadway production of Chicago has canceled two additional days of performances due to cases of Covid at the venue, producers said today. The musical is now scheduled to resume performances on Thursday, Dec. 2.

Naman Ramachandran Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival (Dec.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItaly’s Torino Film Festival, the pre-eminent event for young directors and indie cinema — now being revamped after going virtual due to the pandemic — will somewhat symbolically kick off its upcoming 39th edition with the international premiere of “Sing 2” with director Garth Jennings in tow.“It’s a hymn to going back into movie theaters,” says Torino artistic director Stefano Francia di Celle on choosing the animated musical comedy, featuring more

Ozzy Osbourne has rescheduled his UK and European ‘No More Tours 2’ shows for the second time due to COVID restrictions – see the new dates for 2023 below.The gigs in question, which were originally announced back in September 2018, have already been postponed a number of times due to Osbourne’s ill health and, more recently, the pandemic.Most recently, the gigs, which will see Osbourne supported by Judas Priest, were scheduled to begin in January 2022, but continued COVID restrictions in Europe

Naman Ramachandran Italy’s Giuseppe Tornatore, director of the Oscar, BAFTA and Cannes winning film “Cinema Paradiso,” will preside over the features competition jury at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival (Dec. 6-15).

Derek Hough is sharing an update on his health after he had to stay home from the Dancing With the Stars finale due to contracting a breakthrough case of COVID-19.

George Bird Two of the most acclaimed climbing films of the year, Max Lowe’s “Torn” and The Alpinist, from Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen, have taken big awards at this year’s Kendal Mountain Film Festival, held in the U.K.’s Lake District.Its hybrid edition proved once more a dazzling showcase of mountain and sports films whose subjects, themes and emotions went far beyond the adrenalin-rush thrills of reportage.Awards for the festival’s main international film competition were unveiled

Manchester City's away trip to RB Leipzig in the Champions League will be played behind closed doors, the Premier League club have confirmed.

A national shortage of cat vaccines is leading to delays in annual booster jabs for thousands of pets.

Strictly Come Dancing has announced it will replace judge Craig Revel Horwood with Tony award winner Cynthia Erivo on the show this weekend. The news comes as the BBC competition's original judge Craig, 56, has unfortunately contracted COVID-19 and won't be able to attend the next instalment.

A social club in Salford which closed its doors for the final time last year could be demolished to make way for a three-storey block of affordable apartments.

A wing of a care hub has been named after the first NHS worker in Scotland to die from Covid.

“We will not reach the 80% threshold by the beginning of the year,” said Los Angeles County Health Director Barbara Ferrer today about the county’s vaccination progress. She then noted, “This is one of the 4 measures we must meet to lift restrictions.” Translation: L.A.’s indoor public masking and vaccination requirements will be in place until at least the start of 2022.

Governor Gavin Newsom today extended for the third time the state of emergency in California related to the threat that Covid poses. Today’s executive order stretches declaration through March 31, 2022, at which time it will have been in effect for more than two years.

People suffering with certain sleeping disorders are up to a third more likely to die from Covid, according to new research.