Perth city Scout group prepare for Alps adventure in Switzerland

Usher has announced additional dates on his 2025 UK and European tour due to “incredible fan demand”.The R&B star recently announced the US dates for the 2024 ‘Past Present Future’ tour, which will be followed by the UK and European leg in 2025. Ahead of general sale for the latter, the ‘Yeah!’ star revealed extra London dates as part of the stint.Three new shows have been added to the run this week: a seventh show at London’s O2 on April 11, a second in Paris at the Accor Arena on April 16 and a fourth night at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome on April 26.The trek will kick off on April 1 in London and close out at the Uber Arena in Berlin on May 2.Pre-sales for the new dates will begin Wednesday (February 28) at 10am local time, before general sale goes live Monday (March 4) at 10am local time.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s vision for the future at Manchester United has been laid out, and Old Trafford is central to it.

Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium have announced a 2025 joint UK arena tour titled ‘The Poisoned Ascendancy’.The two bands have revealed details of their joint UK tour which is in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Bullet For My Valentine’s ‘The Poisoned’ LP and Trivium’s ‘Ascendancy’ album. The tour will see both bands play each album in their entirety.To kick off the tour, the bands will play their first show at the Utilita Arena in Cardiff on January 26, 2025.

Bleachers have released their new single ‘Me Before You’.The New Jersey band are due to release their upcoming self-titled album, which is scheduled for March 8 via Dirty Hit. So far, they’ve shared the singles ‘Modern Girl‘, ‘Alma Mater‘ and ‘Tiny Moves‘.Now, Bleachers have shared their final teaser in the form of their new song, ‘Me Before You’.

A stash of 122 Anglo-Saxon pennies, found by two metal detectorists, have been sold at auction for £325,560.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has announced details of a US tour, following the new-found success of ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’.The announcement that the British singer will be hitting the road for US tour dates comes following the resurgence of her 2001 hit, namely due to its feature in the infamous final scene of Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn.Since the film’s release at the end of 2023, it has become a viral hit on TikTok and even entered the Billboard Hot 100 – her first-ever song to chart in the US. It also climbed the UK single charts, peaking at Number Two last month.Now, Ellis-Bextor will be playing the song, as well as other hit tracks from her discography live later this spring, with seven performances scheduled across the US.The tour will kick off on May 30, with an opening show at August Hall in San Francisco, and continues the following night (31) with a stop at The Observatory North Park in San Diego.From there, the remainder of the live shows will run across the first half of June, with the first being held at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC (June 3), followed by scheduled dates in Boston and Philadelphia.The singer’s previously announced New York City show at Webster Hall is also included in the tour dates, set for June 6, although tickets for the gig have already sold out.

Dame Esther Rantzen has shared her final wishes in life, as she pushes for the UK to allow doctor-assisted death, after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The famous telly host, now 83, has said she wishes to be remembered "with love and laughter" after having joined the Swiss euthanasia clinic Dignitas. While chatting to Radio Times, she shared her mission to change laws around end of life help.

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MSC Cruises has just unveiled details of an amazing February flash sale, offering flight seats from as little as £99/€99 to the Mediterranean this summer.

Having told Newcastle United chiefs that he wants to join Manchester United, Magpies sporting director Dan Ashworth has been placed on gardening leave.

Alex Ritman ‘Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger,’ the documentary produced and narrated by Matin Scorsese, has been acquired by Mubi ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. The arthouse streamer, distributor and production company has bought all rights for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Latin America, Turkey and India.

Harry Styles' girlfriend Taylor Russell stunned on the red carpet at the 77th EE British Academy Film Awards on 18 February. Watermelon Sugar singer Harry, 30, was nowhere to be seen at the BAFTAs, as he was busy cheering on Manchester United at a football match. Taylor, 29, a Canadian actress, who is the star of Bones and All, looked gorgeous at the awards, in a white silk floor-length, backless gown with cut-outs at her hips.

They had both romance and menace. Alfred Hithcock's 1954 film Dial M for Murder was a dark classic. The frothy "Hanging on the Telpehone" by Blondie, is high calibre pure pop.

EXCLUSIVE: The Australian television M&A market is set for its first big deal in a minute or two.

EXCLUSIVE: France TV Distribution has posted new deals for French director Delphine Deloget’s custody battle drama All To Play For (Rien à perdre) starring Virgine Efira.

Therapy? have announced the 30th anniversary UK/IE tour for their seminal album ‘Troublegum’.The Northern Irish band are set to tour their acclaimed 1994 album this November. They will play ‘Troublegum’ in full, as well as “a host of other musical treats from around the same era of their recording career”.Frontman Andy Cairns says about their upcoming tour: “To mark the 30th anniversary of Troublegum we’ll be heading out on tour this year to celebrate with a set, but not just a perfunctory play-through, this will be based on Therapy? of 1994 and featuring songs from that era.“When we started out in County Antrim in 1989 we could never have foreseen this beast of punk metal noise being such a landmark record,” he continued.

Pearl Jam have announced details of a huge world tour, covering North America, the UK, Europe and Australia, for later in the year – see full details below.It comes hot on the heels of the band unveiling news of their new album ‘Dark Matter’ earlier today (February 13). The record, their 12th overall and follow-up to 2020’s ‘Gigaton’, will be released on April 19 via Monkeywrench Records, and can be pre-ordered/pre-saved here.Alongside that, Eddie Vedder and co.

AC/DC have announced that a new bassist and drummer will be joining them on their 2024 UK and European stadium tour.The Australian rock legends revealed yesterday (February 12) that they will perform 21 dates in 10 countries this summer, marking their first tour in Europe for eight years.They have now confirmed that former Jane’s Addiction bassist Chris Chaney will be performing with them on the tour. Alongside core members Angus Young, Brian Johnson, and Stevie Young, Matt Laug will also be on drums after performing with the band at Power Trip festival last year in place of Phil Rudd.“We are thrilled to finally announce the ‘POWER UP’ European Tour.

EXCLUSIVE: Animation outfit Toonz Media Group has acquired rights to make a feature adaptation of the children’s book Santa on a Panda written by Parker Jacobs (Yo Gabba Gabba) of the Dumb Idea Group with Multi-Emmy Award-Winner Brian A. Miller (Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Primal) signed on to produce.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Paris-based sales and production outfit Totem Films has closed a slew of sales ahead of the Berlinale premieres of their Competition title “My Favourite Cake,” and the Panorama opening film “Crossing.” Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha‘s “My Favourite Cake” sold to Cherry Pickers for Benelux, Camera for Denmark, Arizona for France, Triart for Sweden, Cineworx for Switzerland and BIR for Turkey. Levan Akin‘s “Crossing” sold to Imagine for Benelux, New Story for France, Lucky Red for Italy, Avalon for Spain and Cineworx for Switzerland. As announced previously, a multi-territory deal was also signed with Mubi.