UK cases of Delta variant of Covid-19 have risen almost four-fold, figures show

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Porter’s What If? from Orion Pictures has set Eva Reign, Abubakr Ali and Renee Elise Goldsberry to star in Porter’s feature directorial debut which begins production today in Pittsburgh, PA. Courtnee Carter, Kelly Lamor Wilson, and Grant Reynolds round out the cast. 

Irish actor Richard Flood has been delighting fans of Grey’s Anatomy as Cormac ‘McWidow’ Hayes but it turns out, his wife is also a very talented actress.

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Perth and Kinross has more than tripled over the past two weeks. It comes as the World Health Organisation data shows Tayside has become the COVID capital of Europe with the current highest rates of infection.

EXCLUSIVE: Industry and Skins star Freya Mavor has joined the cast of UK thriller Freegard, which is filming in London.

Covid-19 cases at a Scots prison have almost doubled in one week as understaffed NHS nurses working there 'fear for their lives'. The nurse described HMP Low Moss in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire as 'pure hell' amid a spike in cases from 30 to 50 in the last week.

An eventful day! Queen Elizabeth II was all smiles as she appeared at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in England following a week of engagements in Scotland.

Covid-19 continue to rise with the latest figures showing an increase to 10,185 detected cases. It comes as UK cases of the variant have risen almost four-fold in less than a month.Public Health England figures show a total of 161,981 confirmed and probable cases of Delta variant have now been identified in the UK - up by 50,824, or 46%, on the previous week.

John Cena, 44, has seemingly changed his tune on becoming a father. The Fast & Furious 9 star opened up about possibly having kids with his wife Shay Shariatzadeh, 31, in a new interview. “I’m a little bit older, a bit wiser. I’m realizing there is life and life exists and it’s beautiful — and I think part of that is being a parent, so we’ll see,” he confessed in a new interview with British outlet The Sun.

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Idris Elba loves being a cowboy.

EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment Group has picked up North American rights to The Gateway, the crime thriller starring Shea Whigham, Olivia Munn, Frank Grillo, Bruce Dern, Taryn Manning, Keith David, and Mark Boone Junior.

coronavirus variant dubbed 'Delta Plus' has been detected in the UK - and could have been circulating for weeks. The new variant is a further mutation of the original Delta first discovered in India - and now it has emerged there have been 41 cases picked up in the UK.

English football star Luke Shaw has given a glimpse inside the luxurious home he shares with long-term girlfriend Anouska Santos.The Manchester United player, who is gearing up for the Euros match against the Czech Republic at Wembley Stadium, has a stunning abode with his partner and one year old son Reign London.

Nadine Shah has signed a book deal with Nine Eight Books, the new music-focused imprint  of publisher Bonnier Books UK.Nine Eight Books will release “memoirs, social histories, genre explorations and first person oral narratives”, and as Music Week reports, two titles in its pipeline are a non-fiction book by Shah and a memoir by Lush’s Miki Berenyi.Shah’s book will reflect on grief, fame and human behaviour in “hilarious but heartwrenching fashion”, according to Nine Eight Books.