Michael Ball and Alfie Boe announce new festive album Together At Christmas

Nicole Bass has opened up about her ex Sam Mucklow and his girlfriend Shelby Tribble as the pair are expecting their first child together.The Only Way Is Essex stars Nicole and Sam, 28, broke up after a six month relationship shortly after he became a permanent member of the ITV show back in 2018. Not long after, it emerged that her friend and former Miss Great Britain star Shelby, 27, slept with her ex boyfriend.

Christmas " across the UK in a meeting with all four nations. Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford told a press conference in Cardiff that he had received a letter from Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the start of the week.

cocaine and a knife despite being booted out of the UK multiple times. Xhenson Duka was caught with the illegal items while on immigration bail and will now spend the next three years behind bars after pleading guilty.

sexual assault victims, but McNamara agreed to be identified by the Sunday Times, which ran her picture on the front page.Hay Festival chair Caroline Michel said her colleagues are committed to supporting McNamara in seeking legal action and said the festival will not return to Abu Dhabi while the sheikh remains in his post.“What happened to our friend and colleague Caitlin McNamara in Abu Dhabi last February was an appalling violation and a hideous abuse of trust and position," Michel said in a

SNP MP while Brexit talks are in limbo. Veteran SNP MP Pete Wishart told the Tory cabinet Minister that his a no-deal Brexit meant the UK would be leaving on “Mongolian terms”.

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Andreas Wiseman International EditorBill Nighy (Love Actually ) and rising UK actress Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) are set to star in feature Living for director Oliver Hermanus (Moffie).The screenplay by Nobel and Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of The Day) is an English-language adaptation of the 1952 classic Ikiru, written by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen’s Number 9 Films (Carol) will produce.

Queen + Adam Lambert have beaten Blackpink to Number 1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart this week, the Official Charts Company can confirm.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorThe plot details to Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two have been carefully under wraps, until now.The author, co-producer and co-screenwriter of Ready Player One revealed the details this morning at New York Comic Con in a panel moderated by Wil Wheaton; the details of which you can read below. The long-awaited sequel comes out in hardcover, ebook and audio editions from Penguin Random House on Nov.

U2’s The Joshua Tree has been named the best album of the 1980s, beating records by Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna.The 1987 album received the most votes in a poll conducted by BBC Radio 2, which urged listeners of Sounds of the 80s to name their favourite records of the decade.The Joshua Tree, U2’s fourth record, remains the fastest-selling album in British history, and features singles including “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”.Coming in second place

for his comments about the inclusion of a Sikh soldier in the First World War film 1917 by Sir Sam Mendes.The actor had initially referred to 'the oddness in the casting' of a Sikh soldier and was met by widespread criticism by historians who confirmed that Sikhs had served in the British Army.Fox later tweeted: 'Fellow humans who are Sikhs, I am as moved by the sacrifices your relatives made as I am by the loss of all those who die in war, whatever creed or colour.'Please accept my apology for

Alfie Templeman has announced details of his 2021 ‘Forever Isn’t Long Enough’ UK tour.The rising Bedfordshire musician follows his July-released EP ‘Happiness In Liquid Form’ and his new single ‘Forever Isn’t Long Enough’ with the tour news.The ‘Forever Isn’t Long Enough’ tour will be Templeman’s first ever headline tour, and will kick off in Leeds on April 22, 2021.

Matt Ratana has told how a planned holiday to reunite with him will now be a visit to his grave. Matthew Ratana, from New Zealand, had been hoping to meet up with the Kiwi police officer, whose late mother Mary was Scottish, during a planned trip to the UK earlier this year.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn “Red, White and Blue,” the fifth and final film of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology (and the third to be shown at this year’s New York Film Festival, after the lilting reggae house-party movie “Lovers Rock” and the wrenching social-protest courtroom drama “Mangrove”), Leroy Logan (John Boyega), a British research scientist, figures that he’s had enough of the lonely work of staring at tissue specimens through a microscope, so he decides to become a member

Todd McCarthy Red, White and Blue, the third and final installment of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe quintet of films about racial issues specific to Great Britain being world premiered at the New York Film Festival, zeroes in on the ordeal of a young black Londoner set on helping to definitively break the color barrier at London’s Metropolitan Police Force in the early 1980s.