Radio 1 announces major shake-up to presenting line up as Clara Amfo steps down from Future Sounds

Emergency services have locked down two roads in Edinburgh following an 'incident' on Hogmanay.

Helen George, known for her role as Trixie Franklin in the BBC drama series Call The Midwife, has shared some exciting details about the show's Christmas special and revealed she will be taking on a completely different role in the New Year.The much-loved series, which has been warming our hearts every winter since 2012, is set to return this festive season with more stories from the nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House.The Christmas Special will kick off two weeks before Christmas with Apollo 8 ready to circle the moon and Sister Monica Joan fears this could be her last Christmas and doubts she'll live to see man walk on the moon. In response, the Nonnatus Family, including Trixie's brother Geoffrey, decide to lift her spirits.

EXIT Festival in Serbia, which is set to return to the city of Novi Sad in July.Headliners over the weekend are set to include Black Eyed Peas and Gucci Mane, with the remaining headliners set to be revealed in the new year.Also announced for the bill are Tom Morello, Carl Cox, Bonobo, Rudimental, John Newman and Dub FX. Check out the full list of names so far in the poster below.The festival, located in the dramatic abandoned fortress Petrovaradin, on the banks of the Danube in Serbia’s second city, will run from July 10-14.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is to leave his role next week.Kotick became CEO of Activision in 1991 after purchasing a 25 per cent share in the near-bankrupt company the previous year. Over the next 32 years, he headed up the company as it grew to become one of the biggest and most influential pillars in the world of video games, acquiring a number of other studios on the way.However, it was claimed Kotick knew about cases of sexual misconduct happening within the company and kept it secret, even after state regulators started investigating the company in 2018.

Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) has appointed Stefano Torrisi as its MD in Spain and Portugal.

Bobby Kotick, the longtime CEO of Activision Blizzard, is stepping down Dec. 29 following the company’s drawn-out $69 billion sale to Microsoft that closed in October. The exec — who oversaw some of the industry’s most popular games from Pitfall to Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga — had said previously he would stay on through the end of 2023.

Ricky Gervais has addressed a petition that was launched for him to remove a controversial joke from his upcoming comedy special.Armageddon, which will air on Netflix on Christmas Day, features a joke about Gervais being busy making videos for terminally ill children for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.The Office UK star shared that he makes the videos only on request, saying he doesn’t burst into hospitals and go, ‘Wake up baldy’”.He then added that he starts his videos to the children saying: “Why didn’t you wish to get better? What, you fucking ret***ed* as well?”Although he clarified that he was making a joke, many viewers were outraged at the sneak-peak of the one-hour comedy special, for which Gervais has already put out a warning, saying he discusses “sex, death, paedophilia, race, religion, disability, free speech, global warming, the holocaust, and Elton John’ in Armageddon,” adding that “if they [the audience] don’t approve of jokes about any of these things, then please don’t watch.”One viewer, who is a parent of a child who has suffered from cancer, launched a petition asking Netflix to remove the skit. The petition called Gervais “not only distasteful but also heartless” and criticised the “derogatory language” he used.It also posed the question of “how a writer or anyone at Netflix could green light such appalling content”.Now, Gervais has responded to the petition, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: “I’m literally saying in the joke that I don’t do that.

Emma Watson has no regrets about taking a break from Hollywood!

ITV bosses are said to have finally settled on who they want to become the full-time hosts of This Morning following months of various presenters fronting the flagship breakfast show in the wake of Holly Willoughby's departure.

Jonathan Majors‘ ongoing trial for alleged assault have been made public. The Marvel actor denies the allegations against him.The newly-released evidence, which was shared in court last week, is between Majors and his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabarri, who accused him of assaulting her in the backseat of a car in March.As reported by Variety, the evidence includes text messages in which Majors threatened to kill himself, and an audio recording of an argument in which the actor told Jabarri that she needed to act more like Coretta Scott King and Michelle Obama to support his career.The text messages are from September 2022 and centre on a prior incident between Majors and Jabarri when they were a couple.

Clara Amfo, who danced her way into our hearts on Strictly Come Dancing in 2020, has decided to say goodbye to her BBC Radio 1's Future Sounds show after two years.The DJ announced that she'll be leaving the show in 2024 to take on new exciting projects. Jack Saunders, known for presenting Future Artists and The Official Chart shows, will be stepping into Clara's shoes from April 15. Clara shared a heartfelt message saying how proud she was of her work on the station and how grateful she was for her listeners.The show has seen some big names like Zane Lowe, Annie Mac and Steve Lamacq at the helm before.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Dennis Ruh, the head of the European Film Market, has issued a statement saying that he will step down from his position after the 2024 edition of the Berlin Film Festival. Ruh unveiled the news of his upcoming departure in a letter sent to journalists shortly after Tricia Tuttle, the former head of the BFI London Film Festival, was announced as the new director of the Berlinale starting in 2025.

Doja Cat has been announced as the third headliner for the 2024 edition of Open’er Festival.Set to run between July 3 and July 6, 2024, next year’s instalment of the festival will return to the site at Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport in Gdynia, Poland, and will see headline performances from Foo Fighters and Dua Lipa.Now, Doja Cat has also been added to the bill for 2024, and has been confirmed as the third headliner to be locked in for the event.The upcoming slot will mark the singer’s first performance at the long-running Polish festival since she released her hit album ‘Scarlet’ earlier this year, and also comes following her having to withdraw from the 2022 bill due to health issues.She will appear on the penultimate day of the event (July 5), and is set to perform fan favourites such as ‘Kiss Me More’, ‘Paint The Town Red’ and ‘Agora Hills’ on the Orange Main Stage that night.Tickets for Open’er Festival 2024 are available now and on sale until June 10. Visit here to buy yours.As previously mentioned, the announcement that Doja Cat will be performing at Open’er Festival comes following the release of her highly-anticipated fourth album ‘Scarlet’, which arrived back in September.The album was given a three-star review from NME, who described it as containing “nothing [that] mimics the blissful disco sound of her Luke-produced breakthrough song ‘Say So’,” but instead as “a much tougher affair that repositions Doja as a rapper first and singer second”.It also arrives as the singer recently shared details of a European and UK leg of her ongoing ‘Scarlet Tour’, which is currently underway in North America.

In the years since One Tree Hill aired its final season in 2012, its talented cast of stars has grown up. Many of the younger actors played high schoolers. They’re adults now, and so many of them have children of their own!

Dame Esther Rantzen has issued a heartbreaking update on her health as she announced she was stepping back as the President of Childline after 37 years at the helm.

Spotify said chief financial officer Paul Vogel will be leaving at the end of March. The news comes several days after the music streamer announced about 1,500 layoffs, some 17% of its workforce.

A statement from Prince Harry was read aloud in court today as he fights to have UK protection restored for him and his family.

strip him of taxpayer-funded police security when he visits Britain should be overturned.“The UK is my home,” read Harry’s witness statement prepared for the trial. “The UK is central to the heritage of my children and a place I want them to feel at home as much as where they live at the moment in the US.”“That cannot happen if it’s not possible to keep them safe when they are on UK soil,” he added.Fatima read out a portion of Harry’s statement at the hearing, denouncing the ruling previously made by the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures when he and Markle, 42, walked away from the monarchy in 2020.“I cannot put my wife in danger like that and, given my experiences in life, I am reluctant to unnecessarily put myself in harm’s way too,” the Duke’s statement explained, alluding to the tragic death of his mother Princess Diana from a car crash in 1997.

The Last Dinner Party have been announced as the winners of the prestigious BRITs Rising Star award supported by BBC Radio 1.The band – comprised of Abigail Morris, Lizzie Mayland, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies and Aurora Nishevci – were revealed as the winner of the award by Clara Amfo on her BBC Radio 1 Future Sounds show.The Rising Star prize recognises British artists who had not achieved a top 20 album, or more than one top 20 single by October 31 of this year. It is voted by an industry-wide panel.

Pete Tong has announced new details of his ‘Ibiza Classics’ UK arena tour for 2024.The BBC Radio 1 DJ released the ‘Ibiza Classics’ compilation album back in 2017, where iconic dance songs were covered by Jules Buckley and The Heritage Orchestra. The album features renditions of The Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, and Armand Van Helden.