Delays on M60 as firefighters tackle car blaze

Thania Garcia BTS will be renewing their contracts under Big Hit Music, the seven-member South Korean boyband’s longtime label announced on Wednesday. With some of its members having enlisted in government-mandated military service, the label ensured fans that the band will continue to work with the Big Hit “on their future releases from 2025 onwards,” according to a statement shared by Big Hit’s parent company HYBE. “BigHit Music will take into consideration the military service status of some of the members and plans to sign with each BTS member sequentially,” their notice continued.

The trailer for Amber Heard’s first film release, since her and ex-husband Johnny Depp’s widely-televised defamation trial, has been released.

A moving tribute has been paid to an NHS boss ‘dedicated to improving the lives of people in Salford’ by the city’s ceremonial mayor. Coun Gina Reynolds was speaking in the wake of the passing of Steve Dixon, who until April this year was the chief delivery officer for the new Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board.

Lana Del Rey is opening up about her career.

Liam Payne is no longer hospitalized, according to his girlfriend Kate Cassidy.

Gordon Ramsay is opening up about his life as a dad!

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore are splitting up their Oscar campaigns for awards season. Although Todd Haynes’ delicious drama “May December” is interpreted by many as a two-hander, Netflix confirms to Variety exclusively that Portman will be submitted for lead actress consideration, while Moore will vie for supporting actress. Co-leads from awards contenders are seldom campaigned alongside one another.

The Devil Wears Prada to becoming a bona fide style sensation in real life has been fun to watch. Over the past year, the Oscar-winning actor pulled off some unforgettable looks, including a in Venice and a sheer number at the Berlin Film Festival.

Radio presenter Chris Evans has told his radio listeners he is now cancer-free. The 57-year-old, who started his broadcasting career working for Manchester's Piccadilly Radio, revealed that he has been given the all clear eight weeks after being diagnosed with skin cancer.

King Charles' famous 'hunky' kilt-clad assistant was spotted by his side once again as he and Queen Camilla landed in France.

Dissident Iranian film professionals are calling on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts (AMPAS) to consider an alternative film to represent Iran in the Best International Feature Film category from that submitted as the country’s official entry.

A teenage firebug who torched four cars had a lucky escape when flames spread to his shoes.

Plex and conducted by OnePoll, the study also revealed people’s preferences for “spooky” or “scary” content and how it affects other aspects of their lives.Six in 10 said they like spooky movies, not designed with the goal of scaring, but are eerie and sinister. By contrast, only 27% prefer truly scary movies designed to frighten people.Spooky content lovers were also found to be more likely to create a new friendship over a shared interest in the genre (57%), compared to scary content lovers (39%).While over half of Americans (51%) are fans of true crime, both spooky and scary content enthusiasts overwhelmingly agree that fictional horror films and shows are scarier than true crime content (78% and 76%, respectively).And for those in relationships (60%), 63% of couples said they prefer watching spooky content together over scary content (53%).“Regardless if someone prefers spooky over scary or vice versa, there’s a clear, universal appreciation for the world of Halloween-esque content,” said Jason Williams, Product Director at Plex.

Khloe Kardashian has revealed a huge indentation on her face after getting candid about her skin cancer journey.The star, 39, got up close and personal with fans as she shared a picture of her post-surgery scar alongside a ruler, which showed it was almost 4 centimetres in length.The reality star, who recently opened up about her relationship with mum Kris Jenner, has documented the entire journey for the family’s Hulu series, The Kardashians. At first, Khloe grew worried about “a speck” on her cheek, but thought it was “nothing” and assumed it was “a pimple” for nearly a year.

Much-loved actor Robbie Coltrane - best known for his role as Hagrid in Harry Potter - left behind a huge estate valued at almost £5 million after he died of sepsis.

Manchester United have a difficult first test to begin their Champions League campaign as they travel to Bayern Munich this evening.

Spain has selected J.A. Bayona’s latest film, Society Of The Snow, which debuted last month at the Venice Film Festival, as its entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2024 Oscars.

Maja Hoffmann has been officially confirmed as President of the Locarno Film Festival following a vote at an Extraordinary General Assembly on Wednesday.

Guy Lodge Film Critic An Emmy-nominated documentary cinematographer with credits including “Procession” and “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” Robert Kolodny puts his expert eye for shooting nonfiction to playful narrative use in his feature directing debut “The Featherweight.” A meticulously designed, gutsily played biopic of world champion featherweight boxer Guglielmo Papaleo, better known as Willie Pep — covering not his 1940s glory days but his faltering attempt at a comeback two decades later — the film is convincingly fashioned as a candid all-access documentary, a promotional puff piece curdling before our eyes into an unintended study of mental breakdown. So convincingly, in fact, that uninformed viewers chancing upon “The Featherweight” on the festival circuit may wonder exactly what it is they’re watching, not least if — in a realization of Pep’s own glumly stated fears — they have no idea who this once-celebrated sportsman was.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his 60th birthday, a little more than a year after the release of his last film “An Autumn Afternoon” – celebrated throughout 2023 at places as varied as the Cannes Film Festival, Los Angeles’ Margaret Herrick Library and the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute. But it falls to October’s Tokyo International Film Festival to put on this year’s biggest and most comprehensive reconstruction of Ozu’s surprisingly varied career. Working in conjunction with the National Film Archive of Japan, the festival will present an extensive retrospective that covers almost all the films that Ozu directed (TIFF/NFAJ Classics: Ozu Yasujiro Week) from Oct. 24-29. Ozu spent his entire career, from camera assistant in 1923 to renown director in 1962, as an employee of major Japanese studio Shochiku, with all the advantages and disadvantages such an arrangement brought. While Ozu is best known for his stripped-down dramas, often centered on family relationships, sometimes troubled or contentious, involving parents and young or grown-up children, many hinging on questions of marriage, generational misunderstandings or the loneliness of the elderly, the director’s register may not entirely have been of his own choosing. “The apparent consistency of the post-war films surely owes as much to this production situation as to Ozu’s aesthetic choices,” wrote critic Tony Rayns in a recent Sight & Sound portrait.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Chris Evans knows that critics hated “Ghosted,” his Apple original movie co-starring Ana de Armas. The film, directed by Dexter Fletcher, opened in April to abysmal reviews. It currently boasts a 26% Rotten Tomatoes score, and Variety called it “over-the-top and convoluted.” (Other critics, like IndieWire’s David Ehrlich, were even more brutal, calling the film “insultingly bland.”) In a new interview with GQ magazine, Evans admitted the film could’ve been better.

Egypt has selected comedy Voy! Voy! Voy! as its candidate for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.

Davide Sanclimenti and Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu looked happier than ever as he was spotted cradling her in his arms on a night out. The Love Island stars, who won the show together in 2022 and have recently reconciled after a shock split, were spotted smiling and laughing as they left the Who Cares Wins Awards in London on Tuesday night. The awards ceremony took place at The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, and other celebs in attendance included the likes of Myleene Klass and Vanessa Feltz.

It was a West Lothian one-two at the ORCi Stock Rod Scottish Championship, staged in Cowdenbeath, writes Jim Turner.

Naman Ramachandran iHeartPodcasts and The Meteor are launching “In Retrospect,” a pop culture podcast by Emmy-winning journalist Susie Banikarim and New York Times editor Jessica Bennett. Each week on “In Retrospect,” Banikarim and Bennett revisit a pop culture moment from the 80s and 90s that shaped them, to try to understand what it taught them about the world and a woman’s place in it.

Travis Barker has shared a tribute to his three late friends on the 15th anniversary of a plane crash they were in together.The Blink-182 drummer has spoken at length on numerous occasions about the mental and physical impact of being in a plane crash in 2008, which killed his assistant, Chris Baker, and security guard, Charles “Che” Still, along with both pilots.His friend, Adam ‘DJ AM’ Goldstein survived the crash but died one year later due to an overdose.The group were flying in a private plane from Columbia, South Carolina, to Los Angeles on September 19 when the aircraft experienced an emergency during takeoff. An investigation later found that the tires burst which prompted the pilot to abort the flight, resulting in the plane skidding across the runaway and becoming engulfed in flames.Posting to his Instagram Story for the anniversary, Barker wrote “Rest In Peace” with a dove emoji, followed by the names: “Lil Chris, Che, DJAM”.

Ryanair has issued a fresh travel warning to travellers today (Wednesday 20) as strong winds and rain continue to affect the UK. The airline has warned travellers that there could be delays due to high winds.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Vuelta Group, the rising Paris-based European film studio which recently launched with the high profile acquisitions of France’s Playtime, Germany’s SquareOne and Scandinavia’s Scanbox, is expanding its footprint in Italy and France. Spearheaded by media finance veterans (and childhood friends) Jerome Levy and David Atlan-Jackson, Vuelta has bought Indiana Production, a leading Italian company founded by Benedetto Habib and Marco Cohen, which had Giorgio Diritti’s “Lubo” playing in competition Venice and just revealed its big-budget Netflix series project “The Leopard” and Sky’s “Unwanted.” Vuelta has also taken a stake in France’s Pan (formerly called Pan-Europeenne), the well-established production and distribution banner headed by Nathalie Gastaldo, Philippe Godeau and Camille Gentet, whose credits include the hit franchises “Largo Winch” and “Legendaries.” Vuelta Group bowed last year with more $100 million provided by a U.S.

Katie Price has blasted her former Loose Women colleagues after her teenage son - who she shares with ex-husband Peter Andre - appeared on the show to promote his new single, Only One.

Iran has submitted Reza Mirkarimi’s The Night Guardian for Best International Film category at the 96th Academy Awards, in a move that will likely prompt pushback from the country’s dissident film community.

The Vaccines have announced details of their sixth album ‘Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’ and shared its first single ‘Heartbreak Kid’, plus news of a new UK tour. Check it all out below along with our interview with frontman Justin Young.‘Heartbreak Kid’ marks the band’s first piece of new material since their 2022 EP ‘Planet Of The Youth’ and the first release since the departure of original guitarist Freddie Cowan.The track details romantic loss set to widescreen, surging guitars and a punchy, anthemic rhythm section – while Young sings about a relationship crumbling to nothing.“I’m not necessarily professing to be the protagonist,” he told NME.

A former Premier League footballer ploughed into a car and fled the scene after leading police on a dangerous chase in his Range Rover. Gary Madine, who starred in the English top flight for Cardiff City FC, behaved in a "ridiculously stupid" manner after cops turned up following reports of an early hours disturbance in Gateshead.

Manchester United hero Dimitar Berbatov reckons there's "no pressure" on Harry Kane to shine against the team who flirted with signing him before his blockbuster £100million transfer to Bayern Munich.

Martin Lewis is urging people with car or home insurance to ‘lock in’ a deal now to help them save hundreds of pounds over the next 12 months. In the latest edition of the MoneySavingExpert.com (MSE.com) newsletter, the consumer champion said that analysis by Pearson Ham indicates car insurance prices have shot up by a “shocking 41 per cent” with home insurance not far behind at 26 per cent.

Naman Ramachandran British actor Vanessa Redgrave will receive the European Lifetime Achievement award for her outstanding body of work at the European Film Awards. Hailing from an illustrious family of actors, Redgrave’s first lead in “Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment” (1966), by Karel Reisz, won her best actress at Cannes and scored BAFTA and Oscar nominations.

Marta Balaga Be scared, be very scared: Skoop Media has dropped the trailer for new series “Raspberry Hill.” “It challenges children in a way that’s refreshing,” says Skoop Media’s head of acquisitions and marketing Fulko Kuindersma. “Nowadays, kids are more resilient than we give them credit for. ‘Raspberry Hill’ [‘Hallonbacken’] embraces this by delving into suspenseful themes, which also makes it appealing to parents.