Lib Dem MP Layla Moran calls for fund to protect UK music venues: “It’s an incredibly worrying scene”

During lockdown celebrities showcased a range of looks, with pink hair and buzzcuts paving the way for isolation locks. Yet now, as hair salons open back up and welcome very willing customers to get their hair sorted out once and for all, we’ve seen a number of famous faces heading for the chop.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorFunimation, a leading provider of anime content, plans to expand its streaming service to Brazil and Mexico this fall, offering select subtitled and dubbed anime series in Spanish and Portuguese.The company, an independent joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan’s Aniplex, already operates globally, with nine offices in six countries.

A string of iconic Manchester music venues have written to the government demanding a cash injection for the industry before it goes under.The likes of the Deaf Institute, the Albert Hall, Band on the Wall, Yes, Factory 251 and many, many more from across Greater Manchester have co-signed a letter demanding the government provide a £50m package immediately.The cash would prevent mass permanent closures, with around 90pc of venues in the UK warning they might be forced to shut forever as a result

Gogglebox, with her stint airing tonight, July 3. Speaking about the filming process alongside co-host Piers Morgan and her pal Judge Rinder on Wednesday's Good Morning Britain, the popular presenter said she was worried about the editing process.

first drive-in gigs were announced last month. The likes of Dizzee Rascal, The Streets and Kaiser Chiefs will all play shows this summer as part of the new concert series.

Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid might be brave enough to sit alongside Piers Morgan most mornings, but the presenter has admitted that she's a little worried about her upcoming appearance on Celebrity Gogglebox.Susanna, who has been watching telly with Judge Rinder for the Channel 4 series, shared her concerns with Piers on yesterday's (July 1) GMB, before revealing she had to watch "hours and hours" of TV for the show.Living the dream, Susanna.Ahead of her Gogglebox stint alongside close

coronavirus crisis, and confirmed new proposals that will allow developers to demolish and rebuild vacant and redundant commercial buildings if they are rebuilt as homes.Dubbed “project speed”, the proposals will also allow a wider range of commercial buildings to switch to housing without a planning application.However, the MVT claims that the regulations are a “replica” of the Permitted Development Rights, which allowed developers to close hundred of venues before the government eventually

coronavirus.Today (Tuesday June 23) saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson announce a further easing of lockdown measures from July 4, allowing for pubs, restaurants, hotels, and more businesses within the leisure industry to re-open as long as social distancing can be maintained.

helped temporarily save 140 music venues from the threat of closure, as part of their Save Our Venues campaign.

Telegraph, a working document from the government recommends a gap of six metres between fans and musicians, as well as a distance of three metres between individual singers on stage.But the plans have been described as “unworkable” by the trade body UK Music, which has warned that venues will not be able to get “back into business” under the current guidelines.“These proposals are unworkable,” UK Music acting CEO Tom Kiehl told the Telegraph.

Netflix chiefs have pulled four of Australian comedian Chris Lilley’s shows due to their inclusion of blackface or racially insensitive characters. Earlier this week, BBC and Netflix executives pulled British TV comedy Little Britain from online streaming platforms following the Black Lives Matter protests that have spread across the world since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minnesota on 25 May.