Tate Modern director marks ‘day one’ as gallery prepares to reopen

coronavirus pandemic.Tonight (August 11), hundreds of venues across 20 cities and towns in the UK, including London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Manchester, have turned their lights on red in solidarity with the #WeMakeEvents campaign, symbolising the state of the industry while calling for sustained support from the government.The Royal Festival Hall, Tate Modern, the London Eye, and the National Theatre are a few of the venues that feature thousands of socially distanced volunteers asking the

The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases in Trafford has gone down.From 85 new cases confirmed in the week until July 30, this week’s figures show a reduction to 46 new cases recorded between then and August 6.The number of cases was one of the highest in the UK, but has since almost halved after the introduction of new government restrictions last week.Eleanor Roaf, Trafford’s director of public health, said: “Of course it is great news that the numbers of cases have halved.

stepped in to host “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night and pulled the ultimate prank on the elderly when she interviewed them about herself without them knowing.The 24-year-old English pop star began the segment with a funny monologue before launching into the suitably named “Who-A-Lipa?” segment where she video called a few old folks.“A lot of my fans are young but I’m always trying to reach a wider audience, so I decided to reach out to some seniors,” Lipa said during the segment.

straight to your inboxLyon sporting director Juninho Pernambucano says reported Manchester City target Houssem Aouar is likely to be sold this summer.Aouar has long been linked with City ever since Pep Guardiola publicly praised him following the Blues' Champions League group stage meetings last summer.Despite plenty of speculation, Aouar remained at Lyon last summer, and has now helped the French side to this season's Champions League quarter finals, where they will meet City on Saturday.Lyon

UFC star Conor McGregor and his long-term girlfriend Dee Devlin are engaged. Conor revealed that he popped the question to Dee while the pair are in France celebrating her birthday.

The BBC has dropped a first look at Steven McQueen’s anthology series, “Small Axe”.

With the UK set to be hotter than Spain this weekend, you probably won’t be going out without a generous layer of SPF50 and a pair of sunglasses. But sunglasses, makeup and sweat just aren’t an attractive mix of things – and they often cause unsightly red marks on your nose, which seem to stay all day.

Hanna Flint Guest Contributor“Judas and the Black Messiah” writer and director Shaka King has defended the casting of Daniel Kaluuya in the role of American civil rights leader Fred Hampton.The historical biopic, produced by Ryan Coogler and endorsed by Hampton’s son, Fred Hampton Jr, positions the British actor as the iconic leader of the Black Panther Party with Lakeith Stanfield playing the lesser-known William O’Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated the political group and fed intel to

Mark David Irish musician Siobhan Fahey, founding member the archetypal 1980s British girl group Bananarama and, since the late ’80s, one-half of the alt-pop duo Shakespears Sister, has put a $4.75 million price on an airy contemporary villa in a particularly desirable pocket of the expensively bohemian Los Feliz area of Los Angeles.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn the late 1970s, when Hollywood was in the middle of its most seismic transformation since the collapse of the studio system (namely, the creation of blockbuster fundamentalism), there was a much-talked-about trend that seemed to fit all too snugly into the new world order.

Alan Parker, a successful and sometimes surprising filmmaker whose diverse output includes “Bugsy Malone,” “Midnight Express,” and “Evita,” has died at 76, his family said. A Briton who became a Hollywood heavyweight, Parker also directed “Fame,” “The Commitments and “Mississippi Burning.” Together his movies won 10 Academy Awards and 19 British Academy Film Awards.

Sir Alan Parker, the celebrated director of films such as Bugsy Malone, Evita, and Midnight Express, has died at the age of 76.The filmmaker died on Friday in London after a long illness, according to a statement from his family.

Alan Parker was a British film director known for movies including “Midnight Express,” “Mississippi Burning,” and “Bugsy Malone.”This is a breaking news story.

Alan Parker, the versatile British writer-director and two-time Oscar nominee who came from the world of commercials to make such features asFame,The Commitments,Midnight ExpressandMississippi Burning, has died. He was 76.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.A Cleland author has taken a step back in time to 1940 and wartime Britain for her latest book.Geraldine O’Neill, 65, has already had more than a dozen books published, many of them achieving critical acclaim.Her latest offering – The Nightingales in Mersey Square – written under the pen name Lilly Robbins, fuses fact and fiction and shares an historically accurate story.The book centres on trainee nurses Clare and Gaye,

Mark David The Las Vegas home of British bon vivant Robin Leach, late and famously flamboyant chronicler of the rich and famous, whose late 1980s and early 1990s TV show “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” showcased the homes of celebrities, has been sold for $718,000.

Dermot O’Leary and wife Dee Koppang soaked up the summer sunshine as they were pictured on a family stroll with their newborn baby son Kasper.The couple, who announced the arrival of their first child together last month, were spotted in London on Tuesday as they pushed their son in a pram. Looking relaxed as they adjust to parenthood, the pair walked side-by-side with a family member through the capital after announcing Kasper’s arrival in June.