Dragons Den star Steven Bartlett rapped by BBC for breaking sponsorship rules by wearing jewellery brand on show

A SNP MP was rushed to hospital in excruciating pain after suffering a serious fall in parliament.

AFTER years of living on the cobbles, Fiz is now leaving her terraced house on the street and has instead moved into a huge posh Victorian semi, staying on the show. The star gets ready to leave Weatherfield as she packs the moving van with her boxes in upcoming episodes. Whilst getting ready she drops a huge bombshell on Tyrone - confessing that she is worried she is making a big mistake.

Brits will see the cost of living increase even more at the start of April as prices and taxes are set to rise. From Friday the increases will come into effect, on April 1, with the new rules being rolled out in the days ahead.

The Money Savings Expert has shared a handy tip which could help people with prepayment energy metres save money. It comes as the energy price cap is due to rise on Friday (April 1) by 54 percent.

A Northern Quarter shop which wanted to sell alcohol 24 hours a day has been refused a late night licence after being likened to a 'vending machine' for anti-social behaviour hotspot Piccadilly Gardens at a town hall hearing.

Manchester City midfielder Fernandinho has been speaking about his contract expiration at the Etihad and a potential move to boyhood Brazilian club Athletico Paranaense.

Bolton Wanderers return to action this weekend after the international break with a big clash against Wigan Athletic.

Manchester United linked pair Declan Rice and Harry Kane have moved to defend Harry Maguire after the £80million man was booed by England supporters at Wembley on Tuesday night. Before the win over Ivory Coast, the United captain was strangely jeered when his name was read out prior to kick-off.

Seventeen suspects have been arrested after an undercover operation to smash gangs supplying crack cocaine and heroin to Manchester's homeless. Dawn raids were carried out after an eight-month investigation into drugs being sold openly on the street, just a mile from the city centre.

A 12-year-old girl who was arrested after another girl was stabbed before school has been released under investigation.

Liam Gallagher’s son and Ringo Starr’s grandson are set to stand trial today (March 30) over charges of alleged affray and more.Gene Gallagher, Sonny Stark and model Noah Ponte are accused of assaulting shop staff at a Tesco store during an alleged fight in May 2019.Last year, all the defendants pleaded not guilty to the individual charges put to them and remained on bail until the trial at Wood Green Crown Court.The trial was originally set to start on Monday (March 28), but due to backlogs in court, it now begins today.Prosecutor Alexander Agbamu told Wood Green Crown Court on Monday: “The original plan was that we would be starting a trial today. We were informed on Friday that in fact because the court has been overrun with cases, we can start this trial on Wednesday.”Gallagher, who is the son of ex-Oasis frontman Liam and All Saints singer Nicole Appleton, has been charged with a racially aggravated assault on Tesco shopkeeper Hiran Rajput.

A Business Proposal has topped Netflix’s Global Top 10 list of the most-watched non-English shows for the second consecutive week.According to data from the streaming service, the drama series managed to clock approximately 30.5million hours viewed for the week of March 21 to 27, becoming the most-watched non-English series for the second consecutive week. It had after topped the list the week prior with 23.4million hours viewed.Romance K-drama series Twenty Five Twenty One came in at Number Two on the chart, after logging a total of 24.1million hours viewed, marking its fifth consecutive week on the list.

Marina and Anitta are among the many artists who have called out the Brazilian government after an attempt was made to outlaw “political demonstrations” at the country’s Lollapalooza Festival.The move came about after a number of musicians criticised the controversial Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro while on stage at the festival, which took place in São Paulo last weekend (March 25-27).Marina told the crowd during her set on Friday (March 25): “We need to stick together. I’m just sick of a certain kind of energy.

It’s A Sin leading the pack.BAFTA announced the nominations today (March 30) ahead of the TV Craft Awards ceremony on April 24 at London’s Royal Festival Hall.Russell T Davies’ Channel 4 limited series It’s A Sin has come out on top with 11 nominations, including nods for directing, editing, scripted casting, writing, and several acting awards.Landscapers, starring Olivia Colman and David Thewlis, closely follows with a nomination for Thewlis as well as five Craft nominations including original music, production design, photography & lighting fiction.Several more Channel 4 projects impressed the jury, with six nods for Help, Time and We Are Lady Parts.

North Lanarkshire’s SNP group have launched their manifesto for May’s council elections, saying it demonstrates their “scale of ambition” for the area and that they are “an administration in waiting”.

Rammstein have revealed the tracklist for their new album, ‘Zeit’ – check it out below.The band’s new album is set to land on April 29, and was previewed earlier this month with its title track. The new record follows 2019’s ‘Untitled’.‘Zeit’ is the eighth studio album from the Berlin band, which is made up of Till Lindemann (vocals), Paul Landers (guitar), Richard Z. Kruspe (guitar), Flake (keyboards), Oliver Riedel (bass) and Christoph Schneider (drums).The new album will be released on multiple formats on April 29, including a standard CD in a digipack with a 20-page booklet, a special edition CD in a six-panel digipack with a 56-page booklet including slipcase, and as a double 180g vinyl LP with a 20-page large-format booklet, as well as in the usual digital formats.A press release reveals that the band spent two years working on the 11 songs on the new album.

Activision Blizzard has settled its lawsuit with the U.S.

Sex Pistols have announced details of a new 20-track compilation – get all the details on ‘The Original Recordings’ below.The new release, set to come out on May 27 via UMG, collates 20 of the band’s biggest hits from their iconic 1976-78 era, when they became the most exciting band on the planet.‘The Original Recordings’ is coming out as a companion to Pistol, Danny Boyle’s new Disney+ series on the Sex Pistols, which received a May 31 release date yesterday.See mock-ups of the new release and its full tracklist below. It’s available to pre-order on CD, LP and cassette formats.1. ‘Pretty Vacant’ 2. ‘God Save The Queen’ 3. ‘Bodies’ 4. ‘No Feelings’ 5. ‘I Wanna Be Me’ 6. ‘Anarchy In The UK’ 7. ‘Submission’ 8. ‘No Fun’ 9. ‘(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone’ 10. ‘Holidays In The Sun’ 11. ‘New York’ 12. ‘Problems’ 13. ‘Lonely Boy’ 14. ‘Silly Thing’ 15. ‘Something Else’ 16. ‘C’Mon Everybody’ 17. ‘Satellite’ 18. ‘Did You No Wrong’ 19. ‘Substitute’ 20. ‘My Way’Created and written by Craig Pearce and directed by Danny Boyle, the six-episode series Pistol is based on Steve Jones‘ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol and boasts a cast of newcomers, including Toby Wallace as Jones, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook, Anson Boon as John Lydon and Christian Lees as Glen Matlock.Pistol also features Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Sydney Chandler as Chrissie Hynde, Talulah Riley as Vivienne Westwood, Maisie Williams as punk icon Jordan, Emma Appleton as Nancy Spungen and Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Malcolm McLaren.An official synopsis for Pistol, described as being about “a rock and roll revolution”, reads: “The furious, raging storm at the centre of this revolution are the Sex Pistols– and at the centre of this series is Sex Pistols’ founding

PlayStation‘s online service offering, CEO Jim Ryan has explained why new console exclusives aren’t likely to come to the service on day one.Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Ryan explained that putting PlayStation’s own titles into services like these at launch is “not a road that we’ve gone down in the past. And it’s not a road that we’re going to go down with this new service.”Ryan explained: “We feel like we are in a good virtuous cycle with the studios, where the investment delivers success, which enables yet more investment, which delivers yet more success.

Stockholm-based Pophouse Entertainment has announced a deal with Swedish House Mafia which sees the company acquire a load of music rights and also form a new joint venture to manage the dance music group’s brand worldwide.Pophouse was launched in 2014 by Björn Ulvaeus of Abba fame and Conni Jonsson, founder of private equity outfit EQT, in order to set up the Abba Museum and accompanying Pop House Hotel in the Swedish capital. Since then it has expanded into other venue, event and media ventures, and is also a key backer of the Abba Voyage show that is due to launch in London in May.It also has an investments wing which says it is “building the world’s most vibrant catalogue of entertainment intellectual property rights”, which brings us back to the Swedish House Mafia deal.

The Great Escape has announced another 184 artists who will play this year’s festival in Brighton in May, including Frankie Stew & Harvey Gunn, Claudia Valentina, Kid Brunswick, Rachel Chinouriri, Goat Girl and Noahfinnce.In addition to all the many line-up additions, a number of new stage partners have also been confirmed. That includes Carla Marie Williams’ Girls I Rate initiative, which will host a showcase featuring the likes of Kay Young, Amaria BB, Nqubilé and Nisha.Meanwhile, Pretty Boy Records will showcase new talent from the West Indies – including Navy, Arii Lopez, SumeRR, DWN, St Phillip and Roze – while Candela Records will put the spotlight on Latin music with Angelo Flow, Clara Hurtado, Guala, and Rene Alvarez and his Afro-Cuban Funk Project.Closer to home, Brighton-based Bella Union – celebrating its 25th anniversary – will be hosting birthday celebrations on both the Friday and Saturday of the festival, with artists including BC Camplight, Penelope Isles, Laundromat and Tallies.Alongside the festival, of course, is the TGE Conference, including the CMU+TGE Sessions, which this year put the spotlight on music and education, music and data, and music and video.In among all that, CMU will present user-friendly guides to rights data, fan data and Web3, while Sentric Music will be on hand to talk through the latest debates and trends in the sync market.

DEALSPopcaan has signed to the management side of Since 93. “Popcaan is an amazing musician, representing Jamaica and its rich culture globally”, says company founder Riki Bleau. “Having sold out shows from London to Gambia, Popcaan is the definition of a global sensation and we’re THRILLED that he’s joined the Since 93 roster this year.

The Foo Fighters have confirmed that they are cancelling their upcoming tour dates following the death last weekend of drummer Taylor Hawkins.The musician, aged 50, was in Colombia when he died on Friday night, with his band due to headline the Estereo Picnic festival in the country’s capital Bogota.Hawkins had reportedly complained of chest pains and when paramedics arrived at his hotel room he was found unresponsive. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful and he was declared dead at the scene.The band confirmed on social media last night that they were cancelling upcoming shows – including sold out dates in the UK – following Hawkins’ death.They wrote: “It is with great sadness that Foo Fighters confirm the cancellation of all upcoming tour dates in light of the staggering loss of our brother Taylor Hawkins”.“We’re sorry for and share in the disappointment that we won’t be seeing one another as planned”, they added.

Damon Buffini, a Founding Partner of global investment firm Permira, is to chair the BBC’s Commercial Board, a move that reflects the corporation’s desire to generate more investment from BBC Studios, as it unveils an Annual Plan that includes targets for 25% working class representation and hints at incoming cuts.

Motherwell's Ross Tierney was a key player for Republic of Ireland u21s as they pulled off a fine result away at Sweden to keep their Euros hopes alive.

Residents aged 75 and over and at-risk groups across Ayrshire are now being invited for their second Covid-19 booster vaccination.

The weather in Scotland will experience a cold snap as the mercury is set to dip to sub-zero temperatures after a recent mini-heatwave.

Dragons' Den star Steven Bartlett has reportedly been scolded by the BBC for breaking their strict sponsorship rules.The 29 year old plugged the jewellers Craftd on an instalment of the show before taking to social media to showcase items from the brand's range - something that is prohibited by the television broadcaster. BBC has now removed the clip of The Diary of the CEO podcast host wearing the jewellery brand on the business show and, according to The Sun, is said to have been barred from wearing the items again if his contract is renewed. "We have clear guidelines around talent's commercial activity while working with us.