Keith Richards Covers Velvet Underground’s ‘Waiting for the Man’ for Forthcoming Lou Reed Tribute Album

The Conservative candidate standing to become Greater Manchester mayor has defected to Reform UK. Dan Barker, who was selected to stand for the Tories against Andy Burnham, has now joined the party founded by Nigel Farage.

Lauren Sanchez has had an exciting week. On Sunday the Emmy Award-winning journalist and host attended the Vanity Fair Oscar party with her fiance Jeff Bezos, then on Tuesday, she spoke in Miami Beach for Aspen Ideas: Climate 2024, announcing a $60M investment to establish Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein.A post shared by Bezos Earth Fund (@bezosearthfund)Sanchez, who had lunch with Kris Jenner, made a speech at the event where she asked, “How do we feed 10 billion people with healthy, sustainable protein throughout this century?” The Bezos Centers will focus on developing innovations in plant-based and lab-grown meats, with the ultimate aim is to provide sustainable protein sources that can help feed a growing global population while reducing the environmental impact associated with traditional meat production.A post shared by Lauren Sanchez (@laurenwsanchez)“We’re investing heavily in the livestock sector and inventions that will give consumers meat options that are better for the earth,” she continued, announcing $60 million to the Bezos centers.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix chief Ted Sarandos has weighed in on artificial intelligence’s place in Hollywood.

EXCLUSIVE: The Bear creator Christopher Storer is shooting Season 3 of the 10-time Emmy-winning show in Chicago, but he’s lined up a big feature project at Warner Bros: the big-screen take of Amor Towles’ The Lincoln Highway.

By the start of the 2025/26 football season Manchester and Liverpool will be home to three stadiums with a capacity of more than 60,000 and a fourth above 50,000. But that’s not stopped Sir Jim Ratcliffe making a plea for public funding to help turn Old Trafford into a ‘Wembley for the north’.

If you're sick of the rain and jetting off to warmer climates this spring, or maybe planning your summer holiday you might be looking for the perfect 'holiday' dress . Well M&S shoppers think they might have found an affordably chic option that some have said will, "look stunning in the summer when I have a tan." The linen-rich knee-length shift dress, £30 here is not only a cool breezy option for throwing on in the heat, but the flattering shift shape is ideal for any age group. Made from a linen-rich fabric, this dress is the epitome of easy-breezy dressing and customers have been quick to praise the simple design which offers a timeless shift silhouette.The knee-length style is framed with a traditional round neckline and it fastens at the back with simple buttons.

A prisoner ran a drugs empire from behind bars - while he spent 23 hours a day in his cell during the Covid lockdown. Safeer Ali, 41, was locked up in HMP Berwyn when he began sourcing cocaine, before passing details of customers, other dealers and quantities of substances to associates on the outside.

Teeny sandwiches, cakes, scones and a pot of tea - those are the things that immediately spring to mind when I hear the words afternoon tea. Expensive is another one.

Michelle Keegan has already been seen slipping into her bikini as she gave a little update on her life recently. The actress appears to have been enjoying a bit of downtime after kicking off the year with a bang by starring in Netflix drama Fool Me Once.

Manchester United will have to patch up their injury-hit squad for the Premier League showdown with Everton at Old Trafford on Saturday afternoon (12.30pm). Marcus Rashford is among those who will need to be checked up on after being hampered by a knock during the club's 3-1 defeat against Manchester City.

EXCLUSIVE: A young LL Cool J, a not so young Alfred Hitchcock. Photographer James Hamilton shot them all – Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicholson, Federico Fellini, Meryl Streep and more — capturing not only the famous but ordinary people in striking, candid moments.

Both former referee Mike Dean and ex-Manchester United captain Gary Neville agree that there could be no complaints of a foul on Marcus Rashford prior to Phil Foden's Manchester Derby equaliser.

Rasmus Hojlund and Lisandro Martinez are at the Etihad Stadium as a show of support for Manchester United teammates.

After an all-too-brief respite, Southern California is once again being hit with a winter storm.

A plan to build nearly 300 new homes in Salford is set to be decided on next week. The council's planning panel will vote on developing two plots of land off Robert Hall Street and West Park Street.

Keith Richards has covered Lou Reed‘s ‘I’m Waiting For The Man’ ahead of the release of a new tribute album in honour of the NYC icon.Richards’ cover of ‘I’m Waiting For The Man’ comes a day before Reed’s birthday on March 2. The track is one of Reed’s earliest works which appeared on The Velvet Underground’s 1967 debut, ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’.Speaking about the former Velvet Underground frontman in a statement (per Consequence of Sound), Richards said: “To me, Lou stood out.

Manchester United lost the Premier League title without knowing in October 2011.

Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has been banned from football for four years after doping.

Selome Hailu CBS has renewed “The Young and the Restless” for four more seasons, which will take the daytime drama through the 2027-2028 season. “The Young and the Restless” premiered in 1973, making it CBS’ longest running series. Centered on the residents of the fictitious Midwestern town of Genoa City, the series follows five decades of romances and rivalries between the Newman, Winters and Abbott families.

Palme d’Ors don’t grow on trees, so it’s small wonder that the world has fallen for Justine Triet’sAnatomy of a Fall, and the outstanding lead performance of Sandra Hüller, since it won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize. Hüller’s turn dominates the ‘sort of’ courtroom drama of the film, in which her German novelist — also called Sandra — is accused of pushing her French husband Samuel (Samuel Theis), also a writer, from the top floor of their alpine home. Sandra maintains he fell, or jumped, and the film spends much of its runtime chewing over the truth, though never revealing it.