1992 saw turnover at the top of the Official Singles Chart slow down dramatically, with just 12 new Number 1s that year - the lowest since 1962.
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With only a limited number of overseas destinations available for foreign holidays this summer, many will be turning to Britain's own seaside resorts for their fix of sea and sand.
But where are the best beach resorts to head to? Well, handily consumer magazine Which? has just published its annual survey into the best seaside towns across the UK.
Each resort was ranked for the quality of the beach, local
1992 saw turnover at the top of the Official Singles Chart slow down dramatically, with just 12 new Number 1s that year - the lowest since 1962.
Little Simz has announced a UK and Ireland tour for the end of 2021, taking in her biggest shows to date.The South London rapper will kick off at Birmingham’s O2 Institute on November 25, before wrapping up almost a month later with a homecoming show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on December 16.Between those two dates, she’ll take in stop-offs in cities such as Newcastle, Glasgow, Dublin, Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester, Norwich, Brighton, Cardiff, Cambridge and Liverpool.You can check out the
work pension pots worth less than £100 are to be abolished to prevent them dwindling away to nothing over time under new UK Government proposals. The move is aimed at avoiding the bleak prospect for many who have moved jobs and acquired lots of small pots during their working lives discovering they are empty when they reach retirement age.
It was a hugely positive first weekend back in business for UK cinemas, with Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway leading the market to north of £7M ($10M) in total. That’s the best Fri-Sun since cinemas were first forced to close by the pandemic in March 2020.
Four days after the BBC published a brutal independent inquiry into a bombshell Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana, the recriminations continue, as the UK government ramps up its rhetoric against the broadcaster.
BTS have broken the record for the biggest song debut in Spotify history with their new single ‘Butter’.The track received over 11 million global Spotify plays on Friday (May 21), breaking the streaming service’s opening day record formerly held by Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber’s ‘I Don’t Care’ (10.977 million on May 10, 2019).Despite the record-breaking success, ‘Butter’ landed at Number 11 on the UK Spotify chart (and Number 10 in the US), with several songs from Olivia Rodrigo‘s debut album
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Sofia Vergara rose to prominence while co-hosting for Univision in the late 1990’s before successfully breaking into the English market. The stunning actress was discovered by a photographer on the beach in Colombia and quickly found modeling and television work, making her first appearance in a Pepsi commercial that aired in Latin America at the age of 17.
For those who were around to witness it, the UK's best-selling song of 1991 should come as no surprise: Bryan Adams' (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, which spent a mammoth 16 weeks at Number 1 that year.
Comcast-owned Sky has centralized its European acquisitions activity under Sarah Wright, who has been elevated from director of acquisitions and Sky Cinema to group director of acquisitions.