Popular Perth city restaurant forced to close following 55 per cent rent hike

As far as career paths go - Penny Lancaster's transition from model to television presenter to Special Police Constable is an unusual one. But the wife of rocker Rod Stewart, who officially joined the City of London police force in 2021, has exclusively revealed to OK! that she's put on "desk duty" rather than her usual role on the front line.The 53-year-old mum of two and occasional Loose Women panellist completed her training to become a special police constable two years ago, shortly after taking part in the Channel 4 show Famous and Fighting Crime, which saw the likes of Penny, Made in Chelsea's Jamie Laing, and Katie Piper volunteer with emergency services in London. Despite someone threatening to stab her with a "dirty f****g needle", Penny completed the show and went on to become fully trained, saying she was going to do around 200 hours of work with the City of London Police every year.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Thursday’s nights Academy of Country Music Awards program will provide further evidence that we are entering a Post country music period. But not as in “post-country,” let’s be clear… we’re talking about a Post Malone country era.

It's safe to say Mancunians are spoilt for choice when it comes to shopping.

A number of celebs descended on the Trafford Centre last night for a sneak peek of beauty giant, Sephora's new store.

Beauty fans across Manchester have been marking the days off their calendars for this moment - Sephora has arrived at The Trafford Centre. The megastore is the third to open in the UK following the success of its two London branches.

Annika Pham Scandinavia’s top sales agent TrustNordisk has scored major deals on the English-language epic “Stockholm Bloodbath” by Oscar-nominated Mikael Håfström (‘Evil”), which has sold to Brainstorm Media and Sunrise Films for the US and Canada, The Jokers for France and Divisa Red for Spain. The Claes Bang-vehicle, produced by Helena Danielsson for Viaplay Studios Sweden, is due to screen at the Cannes Market May 18, in a new international version.

Sephora has announced it will be handing out a limited number of exclusive treats to shoppers who visit its brand new Trafford Centre store on its opening day. The giant beauty retailer will open to the public next Thursday (May 16) making it its third UK store.

It looks like there could be another Strictly romance on the cards, as rumours are circulating of a new couple who have become close during rehearsals for the Strictly Come Dancing: The Professionals tour. Professional dancers Jowita Przystal and Vito Coppola have been seen entering and leaving each other’s rooms, according to the Mirror. The two dancers are part of the professionals tour that began in Birmingham earlier this month.

EXCLUSIVE: Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham and The Nightingale‘s Aisling Franciosi have joined the cast of Three Point Capital and David Permut Production’s movie Twinless. They will star opposite previously announced Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney. 

Andy Cohen is free and clear.

Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine attended a very special fan event for their movie Red, White & Royal Blue on Thursday night (May 9) at The Culver Theater in Culver City, Calif.

There has been a huge increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes recorded by Greater Manchester Police in the months following the Hamas attack, new figures show.

St. Vincent has kicked off her ‘All Born Screaming’ tour, during which she premiered a handful of new tunes – watch footage of the show below.St. Vincent performed at The Paramount in Los Angeles, California on May 4 to begin her North American trek in support of her latest album, ‘All Born Screaming’.

Met Gala Monday! The biggest names in entertainment, fashion, and sports are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the exclusive dinner. This year’s theme is “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” and the dress code is “The Garden of Time,” inspired by J.G. Ballard’s 1962 short story.

Alex Ritman Oscar nominees Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Power of the Dog, “Maria”) and Djimon Hounsou (“Blood Diamond,” “A Quiet Place Part II”) are set to star in claustrophobic thriller “The Zealot.” The two-hander, being introduced to buyers in Cannes by WestEnd Films, comes from director Vadim Perelman (“House of Sand and Fog,” “Persian Lessons”) working from a screenplay by Bennett Fisher, and touches on themes involving privilege, paranoia, and the assumptions we make about one another. “The Zealot” follows Hassan, a Somali-American airport shuttle driver in Minneapolis, who is struggling to make ends meet. When Lloyd, a stranded twentysomething at the airport, offers to pay Hassan to take him overland to Chicago, it seems worth the risk.

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has acquired North American rights to Parthenope, the new film from Oscar winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, ahead of its world premiere at the 77th Festival de Cannes.

Another big beauty brand has announced plans to open a store at The Trafford Centre.

Brooke Vincent has been seen in tears as she opened up about the struggle between being a doting mum to her two sons and returning to work. The actress and her fiance Kean Bryan share two adorable children - Mexx and Monroe - together.

horror series currently has a 100 per cent rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.The second season in the Them anthology series, titled The Scare, premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 25, and has received a generally positive reception.The series stars Luke Cage and True Detective’s Deborah Ayorinde, as well as Jackie Brown’s Pam Grier, and singer/songwriter Luke James.Ayorinde, who also starred in the first season as a different character, plays an LAPD Detective investigating a gruesome murder, set in 1991. As Dawn Reeve gets closer to uncovering the truth, something evil begins to take over her life and her family.The Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes “represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show”, and for Them: The Scare, it’s currently at 100 per cent.One review of the eight-episode series read: “Bolstered by its incredibly gifted actors, Them: The Scare is a terrifying supernatural slasher that moves the anthology to the right track.”Another review described the series as “deeply unsettling” while another noted the deeper themes in the anthology: “Like the first season of Them, the horror in Them: The Scare is as much about institutional racism than it is about some sort of apparition or monster.”The first instalment in the anthology was titled Covenant, and was released in April 2021.

UPDATED, 12:30 PM: Jason Aldean, Kane Brown, Jelly Roll, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Chris Stapleton, and Lainey Wilson will be among the performers at the 59th Academy of Country Music Awards, it was announced today by the ACM, Prime Video and Dick Clark Productions.