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More heavy rain is set to lash Greater Manchester over the weekend, with the Met Office also predicting a chance of thunderstorms as the drab start to the school summer holidays continues.

Jet2 has issued an update to holidaymakers who are booked to travel to Rhodes in August.

An urgent health warning has been issued amid an outbreak of measles.

Greater Manchester is bracing itself for a very damp weekend as forecasters warn almost a month's worth of rain could fall in just 48 hours in parts of the UK.

Holidaymakers visiting Wales this summer have been warned not to touch dead birds on the beach as concerns rise over a bird flu outbreak. In recent weeks reports of bird carcasses washing up on shores in west and north wales have increased as wild bird colonies around the UK continue to be affected.

An iconic seabird colony on the Isle of May has suffered a devastating wipe out due to avian flu, it has emerged.

K.J. Yossman “Silk” screenwriter Peter Moffat is adapting Jonathan Freedland’s non-fiction novel “The Escape Artist,” which tells the true story of two Jews who escaped from Auschwitz. Margery Bone’s Bonafide Films has secured the rights to Freedland’s novel, which is set to be made into a high-end limited series. Bonafide, who have a development and distribution deal with BBC Studios, recently produced Nicôle Lecky’s BAFTA-winning “Mood.” “The Escape Artist” centers around nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba, a Slovakian Jew who manages to escape Auschwitz alongside fellow internee Fred Wetzler, and warn the world about what was happening. Their actions saved the lives of at least 200,000 Jews who were facing immediate deportation from Budapest to the world’s most notorious death camp.

th Disney animated feature and the one, in some ways, that saved both the division and the company. The 1940’s was a difficult period for the studio, with the outbreak of World War II limiting the company’s distribution overseas and being consigned to make propaganda films in support of Allied efforts.

The ongoing bird flu outbreak has “increased dramatically” over the last several days, Scotland’s chief vet has warned. It comes after Aberdeenshire Council reported that upwards of 300 dead birds have been found washed up on shores in the local authority’s beaches recently.

A huge weekend of music is about to get underway in Glasgow as thousands head to the city to enjoy acts such as Pulp, Sam Fender and The 1975 at TRNSMT.

Mark Harmon might have departed NCIS on camera, but he is still inspired by the agency every day.

Taylor Swift‘s ‘Cruel Summer’ has re-entered the Top 40 of the UK singles charts four years after its release.The song was released on Swift’s 2019 LP ‘Lover‘, but never formally released as a single somewhat due to the outbreak of the COVID pandemic.After a rise in streams after the start of Swift’s ‘Eras’ tour, where she played ‘Cruel Summer’ live for the first time, it was then released as an official single by her label this month.After the re-release, ‘Cruel Summer’ has shot up the charts and now sits at Number 12, passing its original peak of Number 27 from 2019, per BBC News.At a recent ‘Eras’ tour show, Swift thanked fans for their streams of ‘Cruel Summer’, which had led the label to release it as a single.Swift told fans at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium that the song was her “pride and joy” and her “favourite” off her 2019 album.“The weirdest, most magical thing is happening,” Swift said from the ‘Eras‘ tour stage [via Billboard]. “It’s never happened to me in the whole time I’ve ever been doing this.“‘Cruel Summer’ is a song, I just played it a second ago.

A specialist Crown Office team investigating 5,688 Covid deaths has concluded its first cases but is yet to prosecute any organisations or individuals after three years.

Thundery showers and some localised flooding is expected to hit parts of the UK, including Scotland, ahead of a scorching 40C heatwave.

An avian flu outbreak is suspected of causing the deaths of more than 200 seabirds at a beauty spot.

Jackie Baillie has told how she thought someone was “pulling her leg” after receiving a letter telling her she would be made a dame – saying she will accept her top honour on behalf of the communities she serves.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms are set to hit Greater Manchester this weekend as the Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning.

How annoying is it when you get your best bikini out to go and have a sunbathe, only to realise you've got a cluster of ingrown hairs, right where you don't want them?! It's super-annoying, we know. Don't get us wrong... we're over the moon that the UK has had a glorious heatwave.

Whitney Friedlander Whether it’s a collision in an office elevator or a case of mistaken identities, fans of romantic comedies have a love-hate relationship with meet-cutes: The central couple must meet somehow and, since this is a love story, preferably they should do so in a cute way. But how many more white shirts must be killed in the name of clumsy-cute trip-and-falls while holding cups of coffee or orange juice?  For serialized romances, the challenge is even greater. Directors and writers must create interesting run-ins for characters to help sustain interest for longer than it takes for audiences to eat a bucket of popcorn.  “I feel like the bar now is, if you are expected to figure out a meet-cute, it has to be your new slightly subversive never-before-seen version of it,” says director Jay Karas. “I don’t think it’s a trope that we can totally get away from, because people have to meet somehow, and it’s just about how do you modernize it.” 

K.J. Yossman Destry Allyn Spielberg’s directorial feature debut “Don’t Feed the Children,” which stars “Downton Abbey’s” Michelle Dockery, has added three new, young actors to its central cast. Joshuah Melnick, Emma Meisel and Dean Scott Vazquez are set to join Dockery in the upcoming film, which was written by Paul Bertino, about a viral outbreak that affects only adults. Following the pandemic, “a group of orphans head south in search of a new life, only to find themselves at the mercy of a deranged woman harboring a dangerous secret,” reads the logline. The film is set to start shooting next month in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

People in the UK have been warned about a potentially fatal health condition that thrives during the summertime.

Gardeners are being warned over a “harmful” froth which appears on garden plants in the summer months.

Pest control experts have revealed how you can prevent bedbugs from entering your home and fix the problem before it becomes an infestation.

Sean Penn will star in the Ukranian war movie “War Through the Eyes of Animals,” TheWrap has confirmed. The picture, due for release in late 2023 or early 2024, is part of a nine-part anthology that will be helmed by nine Ukrainian filmmakers concerning the ongoing conflict against Russia.

EXCLUSIVE: Zoe Colletti (Only Murders In The Building, Boo), Regan Aliyah (Marvel’s Ironheart, XO Kitty), and Andrew Liner (Vampire Academy, Bang Bang) have joined Michelle Dockery in Destry Allyn Spielberg’s feature directorial debut, Please Don’t Feed the Children, as Altitude launches the genre film at the Cannes Market.

Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey are apparently "scared" about bringing children into the world. Speaking to The Sunday Times, the Ralph Lauren model, 26, got onto the subject of the couple's future, having originally tied the knot back in 2018. "I literally cry about this all the time," said Hailey.

Bird Box” was one of Netflix’s greatest hits. The Sandra Bullock-led film follows her and two children in the apocalypse, where the world has been decimated by a mysterious entity that forces people to kill themselves the minute they see it.

EXCLUSIVE:  Destry Allyn Spielberg’s directorial debut, Please Don’t Feed the Children, is heading to the Cannes market with Altitude Film Sales, which is repping world sales.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Frida Kempff (“Winter Buoy”) is set to direct “The Swedish Torpedo,” a period film inspired by the life of Sally Bauer, the first Scandinavian to swim across the English Channel in 1939. The prominent Nordic cast is led by Josefin Neldén (“Border,” “438 Days”), Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (“Royal Affair,” “Borgen”), as well as Lisa Carlehed (“The Emigrants”). Produced by David Herdies and Erik Andersson at Momento Film, the film will start shooting in August in Sweden, Estonia, Belgium and England. “Five years ago I didn’t know who Sally Bauer was and even less what she had achieved. Five days ahead of the outbreak of WWII she swam across the English Channel,” said Kempff I feel this is a story that needs to be told, about a woman who accomplished the impossible and shattered both social norms and world records.”

Anyone at all familiar with Edinburgh will know that it is infamous for its gruesome history.

A key part of the plans for King Charles's Coronation tomorrow could be cancelled at the very last minute, due to bad weather.There is a 70% chance of showers at the same time a spectacular flypast by the Red Arrows to celebrate the historic occasion is due to take place, forecasters say. Royal fans who will be in London to celebrate the occasion are advised to bring umbrellas, cagoules and waterproof jackets with dreary weather expected.

A holidaymaker from Oldham was left hospitalised after being struck down by a food poisoning outbreak at a five-star resort in Turkey.

Helen Flanagan left some viewers baffled during her latest appearance on I'm A Celebrity... South Africa. The former Coronation Street actress is among the several famous faces from the ITV reality show's 20 year history who have decided to give it another go.

Coronation Street star Colson Smith has admitted to being left 'disheartened' after he was told he has a skin condition that should, hopefully, only be temporary. The actor, who plays Craig Tinkle in the ITV soap, opened up about his health on the Sofa Cinema Club podcast he hosts with his co-stars.

If there's one thing supermarkets sell a lot of, it's eggs.

Scientists have issued a warning as a new outbreak of a potentially lethal virus is spreading in species across the UK. They revealed that otters, foxes, dolphins and seals in the UK now face a threat from bird flu, reports the Mirror.