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Nicola Sturgeon and Jeane Freeman have been urged to come clean about "one of the worst atrocities of the pandemic".

Emma Watson‘s last big acting project was back in 2019, meaning that it’s been five years since we’ve seen her on the big screen. However, that doesn’t mean that she’s retired.

It started with eggs, sugar, flour and a dream. When Candice Bannister started her cake company from her kitchen 14 years ago, she had no idea it would go on to make almost £1m.

Justin Timberlake‘s new era is off to a speedy start.

over two years after it was first served.The iconic venue has been under threat of closure for the past couple of years, after it faced a noise complaint from a resident who had moved to Manchester during lockdown in 2021.Following the complaint, more than 94,000 people signed a petition to remove the Noise Abatement Notice (NAN). These came from the likes of Johnny Marr, New Order, Courteeners, Frank Turner and Mogwai, as well as the network of the UK’s grassroots music venues.The Charlatans‘ Tim Burgess – who was instrumental in saving Manchester’s Gorilla and Deaf Institute through the pandemic – told NME why it was essential to fight back against this complaint while Elbow frontman Guy Garvey described Night & Day as an “essential” independent venue “that took it upon themselves to look after the city’s music and art”.Now, the venue has shared an update, and revealed that it hopes that the threat of closure will be lifted in the following days as the residents who placed the complaint have moved out and no further queries have been raised.“We head back to Manchester Magistrates Court on Monday [January 29] for our final three day hearing.

Scotland's Covid bereaved are demanding First Minister Humza Yousaf answers key questions as he faces the UK Covid Inquiry today.

Nicola Sturgeon has been challenged to reveal the full extent of her use of a private SNP email address when speaking with government advisers during the coronavirus pandemic.

A handful of benefit claimants could be owed up to £2,000 due to a mistake from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera are just as upset as the rest of us over this year’s Oscars nominations!

The shocking case of a Renton NHS worker who has waited more than three years for a knee replacement was raised at Holyrood last week.

during the pandemic, which eventually led to two seasons of her own Showtime talk show Ziwe.Ziwe still interviews guests from time to time (her with disgraced former congressman George Santos has over 1.8 million views) and has since published her first book, . She's also a bona fide fashion girlie (she's a regular during fashion week, and BFFs with model Emily Ratajkowski) and is now taking her talents to an equally iconic beauty brand. has tapped Ziwe to star in its brows campaign, a new line of eyebrow gels and pencils for the fluffiest, biggest brows of your life.

Scotland’s national clinical director deleted every Whatsapp message he sent during the pandemic on the response to covid.

Murtada Elfadl Building on the promise of her short film “My Trip to Spain,” which played Sundance in 2022, filmmaker Theda Hammel returns to the festival with her feature debut, “Stress Positions.” Joined by favorite collaborator and lead actor John Early, she brings along the same wry sharp humor and the same incisive parody of her generation, only this time, Hammel is playing on a bigger canvas, directing a larger cast and tackling more topics and themes. Among other things, the film might be the first genuinely enjoyable film made about the pandemic. Set entirely within a few days in the summer of 2020, “Stress Positions” follows Terry Goon (Early) as he navigates a rather stressful few weeks.

By On Sunday evening, approximately a week and a half after to her eighth child, Hannah Neeleman, aka the influencer , got glam, squeezed into a ball gown, and strutted the runway to represent the United States in the international Mrs. World competition.By Monday morning, Neeleman had become the most talked about person on the internet.

Way back in 2020, during the height of the pandemic, we saw reports that filmmaker Kenya Barris was set to write and direct a film based on the life of iconic comedian, Richard Pryor. However, like so many projects in the works at that time, we haven’t really heard much about it over the past few years.

A top adviser to the Scottish Government during the coronavirus pandemic told colleagues to delete their WhatsApp conversations on a daily basis, an inquiry has heard.

I'm pretty sure that in most people's wardrobes there are things they don't wear.

Council chiefs are using a £440,000 to drive down the soaring number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) in Wigan as a result of the Covid pandemic. It’s part of the town’s ‘employment and skills strategy’ with town hall bosses aiming to help residents, partners, employers and training providers bridge skills gaps and identify where future job opportunities are likely to be.

Nicola Sturgeon is facing a police ­investigation over her deleted pandemic ­WhatsApp messages, the Sunday Mail can reveal.

The Courthouse, a restaurant, bar and hotel in Knutsford has closed after its owners Flat Cap Hotels fell into administration. A spokesperson for the venue confirmed to the Manchester Evening News that administrators have been appointed, and cited issues including the pandemic, inflation and the cost-of-living crisis.

A Bed Every Night.The event will take place at Liverpool venue Camp And Furnace, where the mayors will be joined by a host of famous faces including singer Rebecca Ferguson and Coronation Street star Sally Lindsay.Their first clash on the decks took place online during the pandemic in 2020, following by a second face-off in December 2022 which raised over £25,000.“We’re coming back but this time we’re heading over to Liverpool,” Burnham said in a press statement. “I was so proud of what we achieved with our DJ Battle last year, using the power of music and friendly rivalry to unite behind one powerful message, that homelessness has no place in Greater Manchester.

Scotland’s most senior trade unionist will today claim Tory and SNP Government austerity killed workers during the pandemic.

Jordan Moreau Charlotte St. Martin, president of The Broadway League since 2006, has announced her retirement, effective Feb. 16.

A Covid bereaved group has called on the Scottish and UK governments to tell the “truth” about the early days of the Covid lockdown in Scotland, ahead of the UK Covid Inquiry resuming north of the border. The UK Covid-19 Inquiry resumes on Tuesday with hearings in Edinburgh over the next three weeks.

The number of fines dished out to parents for children missing school has soared to record levels.

Salford council children's services have been rated 'Good' by Ofsted inspectors who praised its work in a number of areas, particularly with care leavers.

Playtime has boarded Olivier Assayas’ “Suspended Time,” a COVID-era comedy about two couples spending lockdown together. Produced by Olivier Delbosc of Curiosa Films, and by Assayas’ own Vortex Sutra, the pandemic farce is hotly tipped for a Berlin premiere next month.

Gordon Ramsay has sparked fury among the public after he was spotted leaving his £313,000 Ferarri on double yellow lines, according to reports.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music After weeks of rumors, Universal Music Group has confirmed that it will be laying off an unspecified but significant number of employees in the coming weeks. The company’s recorded-music division is said to be receiving the brunt of the layoffs.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italy’s box office revenue rose in 2023 to €495 million ($542,000) while the country’s admissions tally reached 70.5 million, representing a roughly 60% increase compared with 2022. Though Italian moviegoing figures – announced Wednesday in Rome by national box office compiler Cinetel – mark a substantial leap forward, they are still down roughly 23% compared with the country’s average box office intake during the period between 2017 and 2019. Prior to the pandemic, the benchmark of a good year was considered 100 million admissions.

To outsiders, it was a no-brainer. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the decision to pedestrianise a street in Ramsbottom town centre brought a taste of European café culture to the foothills of the West Pennines.

Thirteen Stewartry schools haven’t been inspected by Education Scotland for a decade.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music As streaming has returned the music industry to health over the past decade, with year after year of growth, people have not wanted to admit that, since the pandemic, that growth has slowed down significantly. While we saw double-digit revenue increases for several years in the latter half of the 2010s, the average number of subscriptions through the first six months of 2023 grew just 6% to 95.8 million , compared with a growth of 10% to 90 million for the first half of 2022, according to the RIAA.

Outlander fans are counting down the days until season seven, part two.

A woman from Gorton has transformed a foodbank that used to do pop-ups into a permanent community cafe that still helps those in need.

Emmerdale has confirmed its new boss months after producer Jane Hudson stepped down from the role after five years. Jane, who announced her departure in August, oversaw some of the show’s biggest storylines in recent times including Marlon Dingle’s stroke and Faith’s terminal breast cancer diagnosis.