Rochdale eyes new era as ‘centre of manufacturing excellence’ following £23.6m Towns Fund boost

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has added the title of restaurateur to her illustrious list of achievements. If you've been disconnected from what's happening, let us bring you up to speed.

Perthshire ’s James Hutton Institute. The International Barley Hub, set to cost £35m and the Advanced Plant Growth Centre drawing on an investment of £25m, were green-lit on Friday, March 19 by the Tay Cities Deal joint committee.These two significant projects benefit from the £62m committed by the UK and Scottish governments through the Tay Cities Deal.

Broadway, an industry hit hard by the ongoing pandemic, is eyeing a comeback. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the first steps for the city's theater community to reopen, outlining a long-lead safety plan ahead of an eyed return come September.

Sometimes it feels like some new businesses looking for the right partners only spend an hour or two on Google searching for 'investment' or 'entrepreneurs near me'.

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For years, specialty films have counted on an Oscar best picture nomination to provide a major boost at the box office. This time around, analysts are stumped as to how much the top nominees will benefit, considering that the box office has yet to recover from the pandemic.

Rag’n’Bone Man has announced a series of new UK tour dates for later this year – see the schedule below.The shows will come behind Rory Graham’s new album ‘Life By Misadventure’, which is set to land next month.The tour is will begin in October with a hometown show at Brighton Centre before the dates carry on through the rest of the month and end in early November with a London show at Hammersmith Apollo.The new dates follow three sold-out London gigs at the Jazz Cafe, set for the last week of

The Dark Skies Visitor Centre and Planetarium is run in conjunction with Glasgow Science Centre.Project funders include the Holywood Trust, Big Lottery, LEADER, The South of Scotland Economic Partnership, the regional capital grant fund, Kirkcudbright common good fund and the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership.

Saturday AM Update: There’s lots of good news ahead at the box office, but we’re not quite there yet.

If you find yourself the subject of a nationwide internet backlash, the most natural reaction might be to lie low for a while. But Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao probably doesn't have that option.

Gallery: Do you know who wrote these famous songs? (Espresso) "I will no longer allow my label to submit my music to the Grammys. .

The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) has stated he will boycott the Grammy Awards moving forward, including no longer attending the ceremony or submitting his work for consideration following his 2021 nomination snub. "Because of the secret committees, I will no longer allow my label to submit my music to the Grammys," Tesfaye said in a statement toThe New York Times on Thursday.

town is due to start vaccinating everyone over 50 from this weekend and has already offered jabs to those over 55, anyone with a long term health condition, carers, and people who are shielding.

direct to your inboxPlans for a new train station in Cheadle are steaming ahead after the area was awarded nearly £14m in the spring budget.It is the largest of three schemes set to benefit from cash aimed at revitalising ‘left behind’ areas as part of the government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda.The £9m project would bring a train station back to Cheadle for the first time since the mid-1960s.More detailed proposals must now be worked up before ministers will release the full £13.9m in funds.If

It was Andrew Cuomo’s Emmy-winning performance: daily televised coronavirus briefings in which the New York governor projected competence and compassion, helping to calm a nervous nation.Now, the many Americans whose positive impressions of Cuomo were formed during the height of the pandemic are getting a close-up of a very different governor, one accused of underreporting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, sexually harassing female staffers and bullying colleagues.To New Yorkers who have watched