The UK's booziest cities revealed - with two Scots locations making the list

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Kirill Serebrennikov, the celebrated Russian playwright and director whose last three films competed at Cannes, is set to create and direct a sensual, gothic TV adaptation of “The Phantom of the Opera,” Gaston Leroux’s 19th century novel. Serebrennikov’s TV debut, the subversive six-part miniseries will be shot in English and is being produced by Aude Albano at Pathé, in association with Ilya Stewart at Hype Studios.

Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield enjoyed a night out with some famous friends, and a photo of the group is breaking the internet!

It’s hard to believe that it’s now over 60 years since Roman Polanski teamed up with Jerzy Skolimowski for the landmark 1962 Polish thriller Knife in the Water. But it’s even harder to believe that these two giants of international cinema reunited more recently to pool their braincells and come up with the most terrible, joyless farce since the heyday of the ’70s British sex comedy. Forget for a moment, if you can, the furor surrounding Polanski’s controversial status as a fugitive from justice and concentrate instead on the fact that the Venice Film Festival, in its infinite wisdom, went ahead and booked this entirely dreadful offering anyway, deeming it somehow worthy of a prestigious Out of Competition slot.

Rail passengers in Scotland may face some disruption this weekend as a bout of industrial action is set to take place.

HAIM have teased that they might have been working with Jai Paul on new music.The Los Angeles-trio – made up of sister Alana, Danielle and Este Haim – performed their massive London headline show at All Points East on Monday (August 28) and spoke to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 6 about new music during their stop in the UK.Along with discussing the 10th anniversary of their debut album ‘Days Are Gone‘, they were also asked about plans for the future.The sisters shared that they “been working with some cool people”. “We played Jai Paul earlier; we might’ve been in the studio with him,” they teased.

The 1975 have announced a 2024 UK and European ‘Still At Their Very Best’ tour – find all the details below and buy tickets here.The newly announced dates – which includes two nights at London’s O2 – are set to be the band’s biggest European shows to date and will signal the end of the ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’ era.The 1975 will kick off the 2024 ‘Still At Their Very Best’ tour at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on February 9, before going on to perform at London’s O2 on February 12 and 13, followed by dates in Manchester (18) and Birmingham (21).A European run will then follow in Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, Oslo, Copenhagen, Berlin, Milan and many more, before they wrap up at the Palladium in Cologne, Germany on March 22.Tickets for the UK and European tour will be available to purchase via an exclusive fan presale, which you can sign up for here, on Wednesday, September 6 at 10am BST. General sale will then go live on Friday, September 8 at 10am BST from here.The 1975.

Amazon’s TV adaptation of The Wheel Of Time returns for its second season this month.Based on the best-selling fantasy novels by Robert Jordan, the series follows Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike) and her companion al’Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney) as they search for the reincarnation of The Dragon – an extremely powerful human who is prophesied to take on the evil Dark One.The second season picks up as the five young hopefuls plucked from the Two Rivers region are scattered throughout the world. A synopsis for season two reads: “The Wheel Of Time turns, and the Last Battle approaches.

A teacher stranded in Italy who budgeted for a three-day break said 'it's been grim' after her flight was delayed by a WEEK due to a fault with the UK’s air traffic control system.

UK airspace has been hit by a network-wide failure for air traffic control systems expected to disrupt flights to and from Scotland.

Adele has babies on the brain! The 35-year-old British chart topper recently helped out two of her fans during her Las Vegas residency show and revealed some personal information in the process. In videos circulating on TikTok over the weekend, Adele approaches a fan at her show who asks the «Easy on Me» singer to help her pick a name for her future daughter. «I really want to be a mom again soon, so every time I see a name I like, I write it down in my phone,» Adele reveals to the fan.

“Like it or not there is an onus on actors,” said Mank star Tom Burke of the idea of global stars taking on the Green Rider unveiled earlier today, which will empower artists to add clauses to their contracts that work towards an environmental culture shift.

When it comes to wardrobe basics, shoppers can count on Marks and Spencer to help us refresh our wardrobe with some new items for autumn.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has aimed a dig at football's schedulers for allowing other games which clash with the Women's World Cup final to go ahead.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The French drama “The Pot-au-Feu,” one of the breakout hits at the Cannes Film Festival and one of the movies that could represent France at the Academy Awards, has received a new title, Variety has learned exclusively. Now under its new title — “The Taste of Things” – the movie will also have a qualifying run to be considered in all general categories, including best picture.

The late Queen Elizabeth was an important woman of many names, titles and styles, some of which were also private family nicknames, with a particularly hilarious one being given to her by a young Prince William.

While we’ve been enduring pretty lousy weather in the UK this summer, the rich and famous have been soaking up the sun at lavish resorts across the Mediterranean. One favourite haunt with the well-heeled is the beautiful Costa Smeralda in northern Sardinia.

Red, White & Royal Blue, the new Prime Video rom-com starring Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine, is a retelling of a queer love story that was first told by novelist Casey McQuiston.

Coronation Street star Rob Mallard has gone public with his new relationship, posing happily with boyfriend Matthew Martin on a date night to the theatre.The couple beamed as they posed together ahead of the Heathers The Musical press night at The Palace Theatre in Manchester on Tuesday. Rob going official with modelling agent Matthew comes just weeks after his ex and co-star Daniel Brocklebank, who plays Billy Mayhew in Corrie, was pictured with his own new partner.

Four Tet – has reflected on his recent success with Fred Again.. and Skrillex, and revealed that he doesn’t agree with the idea that he is “finally getting the success he deserves”.The English electronic artist made the comments in a rare interview earlier this week, in which he reflected on his early days in the industry and the mammoth concerts he has played as part of his latest collaboration.This comes in light of the musician becoming part of the most famous dance trio in the world right now – joining forces with hit producer Fred Again..

Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble has shared his new solo single as Almost Nothing, ‘Instant Love’. Check it out first on NME below, as Woomble also tells us about his new project, supporting The Walkmen, and what’s next for the Scottish cult rockers.After launching his new “genre-fluid” electro-tinged project under his new moniker with the new single ‘Anything Whatever’, now Woomble has shared the elegiac but “positive” next taster of his next album with ‘Instant Love’.“It’s not a song that defines the record but is a really good indication of what’s to come,” Woomble told NME.