Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and U.K. acting star Stephen Graham are reuniting on the 12-part original period drama A Thousand Blows, set against the backdrop of Victorian London’s illegal boxing scene, for Disney+ and Hulu.
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Town hall chiefs are bidding for £40 million of government cash to ‘level up’ parts of Oldham which could see a business centre created to support green tech start-ups.
The council has applied to the Levelling Up fund with two bids of £20m each, covering the borough’s main parliamentary constituencies. The bid for Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency would see cash used to support the borough’s ‘green new deal’ commitment to being carbon neutral by 2030.
This would include the creation of a ‘Green Shoots Centre’ which would be a new business centre to support environment technology start-ups based at Rhodes Bank. If successful the money would also be used to develop a learning centre at the Northern Roots site, the project that will become the UK’s largest urban farm on land at Snipe Clough near Alexandra Park.
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Bosses say the learning centre will provide training linked to green and sustainable skills, supporting the Green Shoots Centre. It would also be used as an educational centre to help strengthen environmental skills through vocational courses. And a new path for pedestrians and cyclists, the ‘Oldham greenway’ would be created to link the Green Shoots Centre with Northern Roots and the new Jubilee Park being built in the town centre.
In the Oldham West and Royton constituency the council wants to use £20m to develop a ‘creative improvement district’ in the town. This would see the Lyceum Theatre and Masonic Hall refurbished to create a ‘flexible workspace’ for creatve industries.
And funding would also be put towards the re-opening of the Old Library , which would see an
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and U.K. acting star Stephen Graham are reuniting on the 12-part original period drama A Thousand Blows, set against the backdrop of Victorian London’s illegal boxing scene, for Disney+ and Hulu.
Emma Watson has a new man on her arm! The star was recently spotted in Venice, Italy, with Brandon Green, son of controversial British fashion tycoon Sir Philip Green, and it appears that things are heating up between the pair.In new photos, Emma and Brandon were seen holding hands as they made their way through Venice. Emma was all smiles as they strolled through town, where they enjoyed some fine Italian dining al fresco style.
Emma Watson and rumoured boyfriend Brandon Green have been spotted in Venice, apparently enjoying a romantic getaway in the stunning city known for its canals and gondolas.
Emma Watson is enjoying a vacation in Italy!
First Dates star Fred Sirieix headed for a curry in Hale as he partied with the stars of his new BBC show on a break from filming here in Manchester. Fred has just announced he is to host the new BBC2 show Master of Ceremonies alongside Dragon's Den star Sara Davies and Manchester events boss Raj Somaiya.
Police were called to Bolton on Wednesday afternoon (August 17) as a group of protestors stormed the Town Hall during a Drag Queen children's book reading event. Drag Queen Story Hour UK, who have been touring venues across the country, perform interactive shows for young children and their families.
Olivia Rodrigo is scheduled to introduce Alanis Morrissette at her induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame next month. The event will take place at Massey Hall in Toronto on September 24.
LF SYSTEM prove they’re not going anywhere as they secure a sixth consecutive week at Number 1 in the UK with breakthrough smash Afraid To Feel.
KSI and Tom Grennan's new single Not Over Yet is officially the UK's Number 1 Trending Song, debuting at the top of the Official Trending Chart today.
BBC Radio 2 will announced the UK cities shortlisted to host Eurovision 2023 during its breakfast show on Friday morning. Several cities up and down the country are all set to take part in a competitive bidding process including Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield and London.
The tragic case of Graham Mansfield, the pensioner convicted last month of killing his wife in a suicide pact at their home in Hale, has reopened the debate about assisted dying. Speaking outside Manchester Crown Court Mr Mansfield, who was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter after slitting his terminally ill wife Dyanne's throat, called for a change in the law on euthanasia.
It's a timeless collection that last year broke records to become the first record to reach 1000 weeks on the Official Albums Chart, and now ABBA's ABBA GOLD is set to be reissued to commemorate its 30th anniversary.
Four Vietnamese nationals feared to have died in a mill fire in Oldham have been named. They are married father Cuong Van Chu, 39, married Uoc Van Nguyen, 31, Duong Van Nguyen, 29, and 21-year-old Nam Thanh Le.
With seven Top 10 singles, a Number 1 album and a few BRIT Awards nods to his name, KSI is undoubtedly one of the UK's most exciting artists right now. And his ascent shows no sign of slowing down, as the 29-year-old joins forces with Tom Grennan on brand-new single Not Over Yet.
TV series set in the universe of the “Alien” franchise, as well Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo’s prodigious reboot of the famed 1980 miniseries “Shogun.” During the Television Critics Association summer press tour, FX Networks chief John Landgraf offered an update on both ambitious projects. “We wrapped physical production on limited series ‘Showgun’ in June, which was by far our biggest and most ambitious production,” Landgraf revealed.
FX has ordered The Veil, a new limited series thriller for Hulu from Steven Knight and starring Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale).
Hayley Williams has revealed that the upcoming Paramore album has been influenced by Bloc Party.Speaking on her Everything Is Emo podcast, Williams started by praising Bloc Party’s 2005 record ‘Silent Alarm’.“We loved this band, me and all my friends, we were really into that album and it always reminds me of getting my driving licence. I paid my mom money that I got from a publishing advance we got from our first album to buy out the remainder of the car notes that she had for this old Mazda 626.
Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in an adaptation of David Grann’s book The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder from director Martin Scorsese that has been set up at Apple, Deadline can confirm. The project follows the pair’s collaboration on Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which is likewise based on a non-fiction book by Grann.