New Falkirk Tesco Express planned for vacant site gets alcohol licence

Producers of A Transparent Musical, the stage adaptation of the Amazon Studios series that recently completed its world premiere run at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, plan to bring the show to Broadway in 2024.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Should you ditch Twitter in favor of Instagram’s Threads — which looks quite a lot like a clone of Twitter? Meta launched Threads, a “conversational” text-centric app tied to Instagram, on Wednesday, a day earlier than expected. The internet giant sees an opportunity to take on Twitter, controlled by tech mogul Elon Musk, which has been beset by various technical and business issues since he acquired the company. “I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Threads post. “Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.”

On Monday (July 3), the New Jersey Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct filed a complaint against Superior Court Judge Gary N. Wilcox of New Jersey for TikToks posted on a secret account, The New York Times reports.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Lisa Vanderpump has left the building, as the reality show matriarch’s iconic West Hollywood restaurant Pump closed its doors after 10 years on July 5. “It was purely a business decision,” Vanderpump told me in May, shortly after announcing Pump was closing. “With rents being $80,000 a month now, there’s just no way. That’s why we walked away from Villa Blanca and didn’t renew that lease, too.” She also said that she’s not looking to relocate and open Pump somewhere else in Los Angeles. “I’m opening two more with Caesars Place [in Las Vegas], so that’s very exciting,” Vanderpump said. “I have two already that are going gangbusters. I have TomTom. I have Sur.”

the New Yorker. Mattel Films executive Kevin McKeon told the publication that the movie will be “surrealistic.” “We’re leaning into the millennial angst of the property rather than fine-tuning this for kids,” McKeon, 38, said. “It’s really a play for adults.

Manchester City defender Esme Morgan has offered an insight into England's World Cup preparations as the competition for places heats up and new partnerships are forming.

Mum of 22 Sue Radford has opened up on having another baby on her YouTube channel where she addressed the possibility of extending their family once again. 22 Kids and Counting stars Noel and Sue are parents to 33 year old Christopher, 29 year old Sophie, 27 year old Chloe, 26 year old Jack, 26 year old Daniel, 22 year old Luke, 21 year old Millie, 20 year old Katie, 19 year old James, 17 year old Ellie, 16 year old Aimee, 15 year old Josh, 14 year old Max, 12 year old Tillie, 11 year old Oscar, 10 year old Casper, seven year old Hallie, six year old Phoebe, five year old Archie, four year old Bonnie, and their youngest, three year old Heidie.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Fox News agreed to pay $12 million to Abby Grossberg, a former producer for Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo, who alleged the Fox Corp.-backed outlet had coerced her into providing false testimony in a deposition related to a recent defamation suit levied by Dominion Voting Systems as well as operating a hostile and discriminatory workplace. In her suit, filed in the Southern District of the State of New York earlier this year, Grossberg alleged she was harassed and forced to give inaccurate information in the Dominion matter, which Fox agreed to settle for $787.5 million in April. Parisis G. Filippatos, an attorney for Grossberg, did not respond immediately to a query seeking comment. “We are pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation,” Fox News said in a statement.

H&M's Market Street store has temporarily closed its doors ahead of a major refurbishment. The retailer has confirmed that the Manchester store will be closed for five months while it undergoes an 'amazing rebuild and transformation', enhancing the existing offer for Manchester shoppers.

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 20 premiere of ABC’s The Bachelorette.

ITV has reportedly decided to shelve plans for a third series of Starstruck.The talent show was a modernised version of Stars In Their Eyes and saw contestants performing as their idols in a bid to win a whopping £50,000 prize. Hosted by Olly Murs, it saw Sheridan Smith, Adam Lambert, Beverley Knight and Jason Manford as judges for series one. However, Sheridan, 42, was replaced by Shania Twain and Ronan Keating in series two due to her filming commitments elsewhere.

A dog left people in tears after he got dressed up to meet his new family who were 500 miles away - only for them to leave him waiting.

Benefits have spoken to NME about making their Glastonbury Festival debut tonight (Friday June 23).The Teesside noise punks will be performing under the invitation of Billy Bragg on his legendary Left Field stage this evening, shortly after the mysterious set from The Churnups – widely believed to be Foo Fighters, or least something featuring Dave Grohl, after he was spotted on site earlier today.Still, Benefits frontman Kingsley Hall isn’t worried about pulling a big crowd shortly after. “We’re not up against them,” replied Hall. “As soon as they finish, we start. There’s no crossover.

EXCLUSIVE: Julie Soto’s debut novel Forget Me Not is being adapted into a TV series by Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Plans for a new Greggs drive-thru on the site on a rundown pub have been branded ‘a recipe for a nightmare’. The popular fast-food bakery wants to demolish the former Farmer’s Arms, in Cheadle Heath, and set up shop on the site of the old landmark boozer.

The landmark Owens Park Tower could be demolished under new plans for Manchester University's Fallowfield campus. University bosses have unveiled proposals to replace existing accommodation with what they describe as 3,300 'new bedspaces' on the site covering Owens Park, Oak House and Woolton Hall.

The owners of a popular south Manchester chocolate shop are set to open a second shop at the site of Ramsbottom's famous Chocolate Café.

It may look like a ‘scruffy, overgrown piece of land’ but locals say Stockport County’s plans to turn it into a car park would destroy a ‘haven’ for wildlife left undisturbed for decades. The resurgent club - which narrowly missed out on promotion to the third tier of English football last season - has a seven-year plan to redevelop its Edgeley Park home, as it eyes a return to the game’s big time.It comes after The Hatters secured a 250-year lease from the council for the ground, part of which was occupied by the old Sykes Bleach Works. The proposals include using land behind the ‘pop side’ of the ground as a 60-space car park for staff, players and officials - albeit with a ‘considerable area’ set aside for landscaping and ecology.A planning appliction is expected later this year - but local nature lovers are urging the club to think again. They say the football pitch-sized plot is the only area suitable for wildlife in the whole of Edgeley - bar two pieces of land at the sewage works - hosting a variety of potentially vital flora and fauna.

UTA, which last year acquired UK agency Curtis Brown, is opening a new office in London as it eyes further international growth.

Olivia Wilde is sporting a new look!