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A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a cryptocurrency fraud which saw a Scots victim lose a five-figure sum. The alleged fraudster targeted a 30-year-old man from Inverurie, who later reported the incident to police after realising he had been conned.

The charity Parents And Carers In Performing Arts has published a new report which concludes that the UK classical music sector risks losing talent and decreasing in diversity unless urgent changes are made to employment practices so that they are more inclusive of parents and carers working in the industry.PiPA worked with researchers at Birkbeck, University Of London on the research set out in the new report, and found that 82% of those surveyed founding managing work and family commitments “moderately to extremely stressful”.Self-employed women in the sector are most impacted by working practices that skew against parents and carers, meaning that female performers frequently earn less and are twice as likely to turn down work due to caring responsibilities. As a result of these challenges, 40% of those surveyed were thinking about leaving their careers in musicProfessor Almuth McDowall – who led the research team – says: “Parents and in particular self-employed women report significant career penalties in terms of access to work and earnings.

Grammy nominee Lana Del Rey has learned an important lesson: always back up your work.

Drake curse’ this weekend after the rapper betted on them to win their game against Real Madrid.For the game – dubbed ‘El Clásico’ in Spain – Barcelona wore a special kit dedicated to the rapper featuring his OVO owl as part of their sponsorship with Spotify.Ahead of the match on Sunday (October 16), Drake took to Instagram to share proof of a bet he posted for $8333,333 Canadian dollars (£537,000) on both Arsenal and Barcelona to win their games that day.While Arsenal were victorious in a 1-0 win against Leeds, later in the day Barcelona lost 3-1 to Real Madrid, seeing Drake lose over half a million pounds. A win for Barca would have won him nearly £2.5m.After the loss, many have called back to the ‘Drake curse’, with the rapper garnering a long-standing reputation for being a bad luck charm after posing with sporting stars or their team’s shirt.In recent years, Manchester City exited the Champions League after he posed with their player Sergio Aguero, while AS Roma even “banned” their players from taking photos with him in order to prevent devastating losses.In 2019, many said Drake used his “curse” to his advantage after seemingly ensuring that the Philadelphia 76ers lost a crunch game against his beloved Toronto Raptors.❗️Drake has placed a massive bet of €617,467 on Arsenal and Barça to win today against Leeds and Real Madrid.

Pierce Brosnan has opened up about the “stupid” comment he thinks led to him losing the titular role in Batman in the nineties.Before starring as James Bond, Brosnan had made a name for himself in television show Remington Steele.It was around the time of him starring in this when Brosnan auditioned for the role of Batman for Tim Burton’s directorial take on the caped crusader.Speaking on The Tonight Show, Brosnan revealed a quip he made during the audition process – something he thought would win him the role. However, the actor revealed how it did just the opposite.“I remember saying something stupid to Tim Burton,” Brosnan told host Jimmy Fallon.

said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. “So why do you keep saying that?”When the Republican candidate responded that “there’s plenty of evidence,” and falsely claimed that there were “740,000 ballots with no chain of custody,” Bash interjected, asking “where is the evidence of that?” Lake suggested she would send over the information to CNN, but noted that the problem is that “the media won’t cover it.”“We’ve covered this extensively, and what you just said has been debunked,” Bash retorted while Lake responded, “only one side of it.” “The real issue, Dana, is that the people don’t trust our elections,” Lake continued.

Josie Gibson drew the short straw during the latest episode of This Morning as she was sent on a task no one should have to endure 'on a hangover'. The TV star was back on the ITV daytime show on Friday (October 14) but not in the show's studio with hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary.

Market experts on Twitter reacted to the "troubling" news that the inflation rate was higher than predicted Thursday.  The Department of Labor released its consumer price index (CPI) report for the month of September and at 8.2% year over year, the price increase was 0.4% higher than it was last month.The American middle class is feeling the pain caused by their reduced purchasing power.  Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., contended that as bad as the CPI reports have been in recent months, it does not represent the true severity of inflation.  "Another hotter than expected #CPI surprised investors. Sept.

Scarlett Johansson is recalling how some orgasmic voice recordings she made for her role in “Her” caused co-star Joaquin Phoenix to leave the set because he couldn’t get through the scene without cracking up.

Nearly one month after the “big fat dumpster” finale of The Bachelorette — as co-lead Gabby Windey called it — Rachel Recchia is giving updates on her relationships with Tino Franco, Aven Jones and … Greg Grippo?

Jonathan Groff is Lea Michele‘s biggest fan, and he just paid her a lofty compliment.

departed, TheWrap has learned. The project hails from EPs Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.The long-gestating project was set to mark “The Matrix” star’s first major television role, as the infamous Dr. H.

Kevin Bacon is opening up about his involvement in Bernie Madoff‘s Ponzi scheme, which lost the actor “most” of his money.

Monday’s episode of the SmartLess podcast, hosted by Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.During the interview, Bacon revealed that he and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, had invested “most” of their money in Madoff. “There’s obvious life lessons there. You know, if something is too good to be true, it’s too good to be true,” Bacon said.

R Kelly has been accused of fraudulently selling his music rights to a childhood friend in order to avoid that intellectual property from being used to cover the damages he was ordered to pay as a result of civil litigation over allegations of sexual abuse.The musician was sued by Heather Williams in February 2019, a month after the screening of the ‘Surviving R Kelly’ programme that prompted various new criminal investigations into the many allegations of sexual abuse that had been made against the star over the years.Those criminal investigations, of course, have resulted in two high profile trials to date, in both Chicago and New York. In the former he was found guilty of enticing minors to engage in criminal sexual activity and of filming that abuse.

Ashley Cain is the former footballer who, at the age of only 32, has gone through more than what most people would in a lifetime after the heartbreaking loss of his baby daughter Azaylia, who died at eight months old from leukaemia. Ashley is currently starring in Channel 4's Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, the show that pushes celebrities to the limit, both mentally and physically. Ashley has endured a heartbreaking couple of years, after his daughter, Azaylia Diamond Cain, who he shared with ex-partner Safiyya Vorajee, was born in August 2020, and was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukaemia just two months later.