Blackpool Tower launches live music weekender events held in historic ballroom

It's no secret among beauty buffs that the secret to a good skincare routine is a good quality SPF.

A Lorraine star has quit the show with co-star host Christine Lampard honouring their contribution.

Police say "concerns are growing" for a 14-year-old girl from the Bathgate area who has been missing for three days.

A man has been left terrified after finding a secret door in his cellar. Shortly after moving into his new home, he uncovered a "hidden basement room" - and he has been left feeling like he is in a "horror movie".

Scots Labour leader Anas Sarwar has said no community is immune from “hate” after two of his senior politicians were suspended over race rows.

Angelina Jolie celebrates the successful opening of her new Broadway play The Outsiders with her children Pax and Vivienne during a night out in New York City on Thursday (April 11).

“Franklin,” an eight-part series premiering April 12 on Apple TV+.“Franklin” tells the story of 70-year-old Ben Franklin’s secret diplomatic mission to France in 1776 to gain French support (money, arms) for America’s fight against the British in the Revolutionary War. There are a lot of moving parts here, so viewers would be apprised to pay attention as Franklin navigates French high society — and politics — in an effort to achieve his goal.The series is based on the book “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America” by Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff.As the series opens, Franklin — commissioned by Congress to undertake his clandestine journey across the Atlantic — has no diplomatic experience.

celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary, touched down at Aberdeen Airport Wednesday, from which they were whisked away to Birkhall, their Highland retreat located on the Balmoral Estate.While it’s unclear exactly how long the couple will enjoy some much-needed downtime, the pair — who flew from RAF Northolt in north-west London — are likely to spend some quality time given the chaotic start to the year the family has had.As Charles continues to receive cancer treatment, Camilla has been frequently stepping in for her husband to attend various royal engagements over the last few months.After landing in Scotland, the pair were driven for about an hour to their estate, where they’ll be spending some “private time” according to palace insiders.Charles’s love for the plush estate, which is nestled on the banks of the River Muick, is well-known, as he often visits whenever time allows.“It is such a special place, particularly because it was made by my grandmother. It is a childhood garden, and all I’ve done, really, is enhance it a bit,” the King told Country Life of the estate’s gardens. What’s more, the residence holds a special place in both of their hearts as it’s where they spent their honeymoon after tying the knot in 2005.Since then, they’ve made it their tradition to spend their anniversary at the estate each year.The pair, who tied the knot on April 9, 2005, celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary on Tuesday.They marked the occasion with a private celebration that included an intimate “romantic dinner,” according to the monarch’s former butler Grant Harrold.Charles, who is in the thick of his cancer treatment following his diagnosis in February, has been forced to hit the brakes on much of his royal agenda since

son Rocco Ritchie’s newest art piece. Madonna, 65, attended the opening of the 23-year-old’s art exhibition in Miami on April 11, and she couldn’t be more “proud” of his achievements.

Simon Murray, a popular and respected figure in the international TV business, has died aged 64.

, the inaugural and his wife are divorcing just three months after getting .Of course, after a televised wedding, it's only natural that the two have a televised breakup announcement, too. On April 12, the couple appeared on Good Morning America, where they gave a joint interview about their decision to part ways."Theresa and I have had a number of heart-to-heart conversations, and we've looked closely at our situation, our living situation and so forth, and we've kind of come to the conclusion mutually that it's probably time for us to dissolve our marriage," Turner said, while Nist nodded.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Both Turner, 73, and Nist, 70, claim that it was not a lack of love that led them to the decision to split (in fact, they gave their interview while holding hands (!)), but the distance.

Rihanna always makes a splash with her fashionable outfits. However, she took it to another level in an all-over animal print look on Thursday night (April 11).

Aramide Tinubu When pondering the Revolutionary War, specific inflection points come to mind. The Boston Massacre of 1770, Paul Revere’s midnight warning in 1775 and the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 are often the main topics of conversation. However, much more went on during the nearly two-decade-long battle that led to the 13 colonies’ independence from England.

The Golden Bachelor couple Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist are calling it quits three months after tying the knot in the Golden Wedding.

a 25-year-old content creator in Vancouver, Canada, it’s simple.“A Girl’s Girl doesn’t see other women as competition and wants to see other women succeed,” she tells me.When Bruser first saw the term on about a year ago, she related to it immediately. Bruser has always gravitated towards being friends with women over men, and these days she invests heavily into her relationships with her small circle of close gal pals. For Bruser, these relationships mean everything.“I deeply value the understanding that female friendships provide,” she says.

Palace vocalist Leo Wyndham has spoken to NME about the band’s fourth album ‘Ultrasound’, playing Coachella, and coming to terms with his wife’s miscarriage.‘Ultrasound’ was released last week (April 5) and follows on from 2022’s ‘Shoals’. According to Wyndham, Palace’s new record comes with “much more clarity”.“It’s not a concept album, but it was written about a year of the band and the journey my wife and I went on after she suffered a miscarriage,” he said.He continued: “There’s a lot of excitement about the record coming out, but there are also some nerves. It’s always scary when something you make is in the spotlight.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have shared ‘Song For Amy’, a song they wrote for the new Amy Winehouse biopic ‘Song For Amy’ – listen below.The delicate, orchestrated track features over the opening credits of the film, which is out in UK cinemas now. Elegant strings underscore Cave’s deeply felt vocals as he sings, “You say that it’s time for us to call it a day / But I will love you anyway”.Listen to ‘Song For Amy’ below:Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Back to Black tells the Winehouse story in a feature film for the first time.

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar will be re-released in cinemas later this year in honour of the film’s 10th anniversary.The film, starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Matt Damon is set in a dystopian future and sees a group of astronauts travelling into outer space to find a new planet for humans to colonise.Paramount Pictures announced the re-release during its presentation to cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas this week.Interstellar will arrive in cinemas on September 27 and will be shown in 70mm IMAX prints, as well as on digital screens.Nolan filmed Interstellar with a combination of 35mm anamorphic film and 65mm IMAX. At the time of release, he encouraged cinema goers to see the movie in 70mm IMAX – something that led to weeks of sold-out showings.Warner Bros., who co-produced the movie, will work with Paramount on the revival screenings (as per Variety).Meanwhile, Nolan’s Oppenheimer continues to break records around the world, and this week became Nolan’s biggest Box Office hit overseas.The biopic profiles Robert J.

Glastonbury has added more names to its 2024 line-up, as organisers share the bill for this year’s Acoustic Stage.The official 2024 line-up for Glastonbury was shared last month – with Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA set to headline the iconic Pyramid Stage this summer, while Shania Twain will perform in the legends slot on the Sunday.Now, following the main announcement, the organisers of the iconic Worthy Farm festival have begun counting down the weeks to this year’s instalment by beginning to announce the artists playing at individual stages around the site.Announced today (April 12), the announcement of those playing at individual stages has kicked off with the Acoustic Stage – and several new artists being confirmed as performing across June 28 and June 30.The Friday slot (June 28) will see performances led by Scouting For Girls, as well as Tanita Tikaram, Deverish, Stornoway, Josh Rous, Angie McMahon, John Smith, The Burma and more. It will also feature sets from Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ cover band, Red Hot Chilli Pipers.Saturday’s line-up at the Acoustic Stage includes Birmingham rock group Ocean Colour Scene, as well as Ralph McTell, The Manfields (featuring Paul Jones and Mike d’Abo), Albert Lee and more.

John Squire has downplayed the chances of a Stone Roses reunion, saying that the members “aren’t sending each other Christmas cards or anything”.The comments arose during a new interview with NME, when the former guitarist for the Britpop giants sat down with Liam Gallagher to discuss the huge response to their collaborative self-titled album and UK and European shows.Towards the end of the discussion, the topic turned to the widespread rumours that Liam Gallagher could see eye-to-eye with brother Noel, and come together to reform Oasis in time for this summer’s ‘Definitely Maybe’ 30th anniversary shows.After the former Oasis frontman reaffirmed that “it’s not happening at this moment in time”, the topic turned to the possibility of another reunion from The Stone Roses. Squire still spends time with bassist Mani, who is “into” the two’s collaborative album and even gifted Squire the amplifier that he used during the recent run of live shows.In the discussion, he recalled seeing Mani and former frontman Ian Brown at the funeral of the former’s wife Imelda, who sadly died last November.

Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil has shared his thoughts on the new biopic Back To Black, explaining that he found it “therapeutic”.The film – directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson – arrives in cinemas earlier today (April 12), and follows the life of the late singer. It stars Marisa Abela (Industry) as Winehouse and charts the iconic singer’s vibrant years living in London, as well as her intense rise to fame.In the movie, Winehouse’s former husband Blake Fielder-Civil is portrayed by Jack O’Connell (Skins, Godless, Lady Chatterley’s Lover). He stars opposite Eddie Marsan, who was cast as the singer’s father, Mitch.Now, appearing on today’s episode of Good Morning Britain, Fielder-Civil shared his thoughts on the biopic, and admitted that he found the film “almost therapeutic” due to how he was depicted.In the interview with host Kate Garraway, he said that some parts of the movie made him feel seen “in a more accurate representation” to what he is used to.“Not in a sense of being let off the hook or whitewashed, as [has] been alluded to… just in a sense of it wasn’t all about addiction,” he said.

Pocketpair has launched a fix for an ongoing issue with Palworld’s multiplayer mode and teased a “major” update.Palworld’s V0.2.0.6 update was released on Xbox earlier this week after launching on Steam but quickly started causing issues with player’s save data. Users were advised to avoid using the game’s multiplayer mode until it was sorted, and now Pocketpair have confirmed a fix.The latest patch “fixes a bug that prevented save data from loading correctly in multiplayer” but “chat has been temporarily disabled” due to the bug. Pocketpair has also fixed the egg incubator and sorted a glitch that prevented raid boss achievements from being unlocked.[Xbox Patch Notice] Xbox version v0.2.1.0 has been released.

Daniel Radcliffe has recalled how he was “terrified” of the late Alan Rickman at one of their first meetings and was worried that “he hated” him.Speaking on an episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast which you can see below, Radcliffe was played a clip by host Josh Horowitz that was taken from an interview he did with Rickman interview in 2016 – something Radcliffe had never seen. Rickman and Radcliffe were co-stars for a decade in the Harry Potter film series.In the footage, Rickman praises Radcliffe. “As much as I was doing it for seven weeks, they were doing it for 52 weeks,” Rickman said about the child actors on the Harry Potter movies (as per Variety).“This was their life from 12 to 22.

The 19th edition of the International Youth Media Summit (IYMS) will be held in Zanzibar in July. 

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The Olivier Awards will be available to stream on Britbox this year, alongside its regular UK broadcast on ITV1. The Olivier Awards will take place on Sunday, April 14, and will be available to American and Canadian audiences on SVOD service Britbox on the same day. Australian audiences will have access to the stream from Monday, April 15.

Viewers have taken to social media after watching a Netflix horror which has saw some fans "nearly pass out" and others left "terrified" at one particularly disturbing scene.

Stirling fish farmer Stewart Hawthorn is set to pull on his running shoes for one of the world’s most iconic races – all in the aid of spreading the word about Gaelic.

Prince Harry was reportedly 'livid' following an upsetting leak, and only two things would calm him down. Despite his current lifestyle gracing Hollywood's lavish events and mingling amidst celebrities, this hasn't always been the norm for the Duke of Sussex.

Jamie Oliver has shared his go-to recipe for spaghetti carbonara - and it contains one 'controversial' ingredient

Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards has opened up about her long-distance relationship with her former Liverpool footballer fiancé as she said: “We make it work for the ones we love.”

There are many oddly named towns, villages, and streets across the world - and Scotland is no exception. When it comes to having bizarre - and often rude - monikers for locations, we more than meet the quota.

A Hamilton supermarket community champion joined colleagues to spend a day volunteering for a food distribution charity – ahead of a busy in-store collection drive next month.

Ellise Shafer “The Golden Bachelor” star Gerry Turner and the winner of his season, Theresa Nist, are divorcing after three months of marriage. The former couple announced the news on “Good Morning America” Friday morning.

When a priest from a Catholic boarding school in Beyond Paradise suddenly disappears, DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) and Esther Williams (Zahra Ahmadi) find that his case has uncanny similarities to a local myth – The Devil on the Rocks. Why was he last seen marching on a nearby beach in the middle of a dense fog, and where is he now? With the school’s headmistress reluctant to aid the investigation, a large sum of money missing from the school safe, and the priest nowhere to be found, the team have their work cut out trying to pin down the truth.

Hollywood actor John Goodman looked unrecognisable after shedding an incredible 200lbs in weight as he was spotted in New York with a dramatically different physique on Wednesday.The Flintstones star, 71, was snapped looking svelte as he showcased his newly slimmed-down figure in a green hoodie, jeans and slip-on shoes. John and his wife Anna Beth Goodman, 55, were spotted after they flew into John F Kennedy International Airport, with the A-lister briefly stopping to sign some autographs for fans.The star's public appearance after he continues to share rare insights into his 17-year weight-loss journey; in 2007 he vowed to transform his life and went on to shed an astonishing 14 stone.