The #ILoveLive campaign has raised over £500,000 for UK stage crew

Local councillor, and Tory group leader, Damian Timson said: “Given what has happened with the town centre funding this year, I do believe the process has hindered what the elected members wanted to happen which is hugely disappointing.

Perthshire school have raised a fantastic £10,406 this year to go directly towards supporting 40 children in Kenya and hundreds of others through ongoing projects. Despite the constraints brought by COVID, students at Strathallan School threw themselves into fundraising through concerts, variety shows, pop-up cafés and gathering donations.

Over 100,000 people are without power in Texas and Louisiana after a storm dumped above-average snow across parts of the south. The storm kicked up on Sunday, moving along the Gulf Coast toward Mississippi.

direct to your inboxThe number of people to have died in the UK after contracting coronavirus has surpassed 80,000. A further 1,035 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Saturday, the government has said.

The United States surpassed 4,000 daily coronavirus deaths on Thursday, marking the highest number seen since the outbreak began. According to Johns Hopkins University, the U.S.

direct to your inbox Concerns have been raised over a rise in anti-vax propaganda Covid conspiracy theories in Middleton. Posters purporting to be from lockdown sceptic group The White Rose appeared in parts of the town over the weekend.One described the pandemic as ‘the biggest scam in the history of the world’, while another claimed the virus was not deadly.Some homes reportedly also received leaflets bearing similar messages.

Rutherglen ’s Abbeyfield Extra Care House & Templeton House received three out of six and was rated adequate, but with concerns raised there as well.

The disappearance of Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old soldier at the sprawling Texas Army base of Fort Hood last April, captured headlines across the world. After 10 torturous weeks and growing fears that another soldier who had sexually harassed her was involved, Guillén's dismembered, burned body parts were unearthed from a box by a river.That fellow soldier, her suspected killer, died by suicide as police inched closer to him.

To help kick off the new year,Tituss Burgess, Andrew Barth Feldman, Ashley Park and more stars of the screen and stage sang of Parisian cooking and one rat's dream to be a culinary iconinthe virtual benefit performanceRatatouille: The TikTok Musical.

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, a virtual Broadway performance crowdsourced and organised via social media, has raised more than $1 million (£730,000) in premiere night ticket sales in support of The Actors Fund.The production began life as a viral TikTok video about a musical adaptation of the 2007 Disney/Pixar film, eventually expanding into a genuine full-scale performance that premiered on New Year’s Day – starring the likes of Titus Burgess, Wayne Brady, Adam Lambert, and Ashley Park.The

Republicans in Georgia say they’ve recruited more than 8,000 volunteers in the state to serve as poll watchers for next week’s twin Senate runoff elections, where the GOP majority in the Senate is at stake. The combined effort by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is the re-election arm of the Senate GOP; the Republican National Committee; the Georgia Republican Party and Sens.

President Trump’s last-minute about-face on the size of stimulus checks for most Americans to help deal with the economic harm caused by the coronavirus pandemic has turned Washington upside down only days before a new Congress is sworn in.  Trump’s negotiators had agreed to $600 per person in stimulus checks and had gotten that measure through both the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate before Christmas.The bill the payments were wrapped into was a typically flawed

Simon Ward, from Amesbury, has raised another £1,050 for two charities through his Doorstep Snaps 2 campaign. As the country went back into a lockdown in November, Simon decided to bring back his project of taking socially distanced family photos.

Steve Buscemi hosted a virtual fireside chat on Tuesday in support of Friends of Firefighters, which offersessential programs and services to help active and retired firefighters and their families support, prioritize and clearly communicate their physical and mental health needs during stressful times.

direct to your inbox Turkish authorities have placed almost 5,000 people arriving from the UK into quarantine over fears about the new variant of coronavirus.

their #SaveOurVenues campaign has raised over £3.8 million this year for crisis-hit grassroots music venues across the UK.Launched back in April after music venues up and down the country were forced to close their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, the ongoing campaign is aiming to offer both financial and human support to venues during the health crisis.In an end-of-year statement, the MVT said they wanted “to acknowledge all the remarkable work that has been done this year to shield our

direct to your inboxThis year hasn't been full of good news, that's for sure - but there's finally some positive news on the horizon for 60,000 households in the UK.Tens of thousands of people are owed their first Help to Save bonus payment, which averages at around £378, figures reveal.The payments are due just in time for Christmas, which should take a burden off many people struggling after a financially difficult year.

drug dealer who played a leading role in a gang planning to flood Central Scotland with heroin and cocaine was today ordered to hand over £75,000 crime profits. Anthony O'Hare, 34, made £650,000 from his criminal conduct but the available assets to be seized from him under a proceeds of crime action was £75,000.