Gayle King Gets Emotional Over Racially Charged Incidents Involving Black Men

Manchester city centre is constantly evolving.

As all those following the Slimming World diet plan will know, finding new recipes to negotiate your way through the rules while sticking to plan is all part of the fun.

When plans to build a luxury golf resort on one of Bolton's most historic green spaces were rejected earlier this week, a sizeable number of local residents rejoiced.

It's a tune that transcends time. An earworm that earned an Aussie soap star five weeks atop the singles chart. A song that cemented Stock Aitken Waterman among pop's most prolific producers.

Manchester United will be looking to win their third league game in a row on Saturday as they host relegation-threatened Watford in the Premier League.

Manchester City return to Premier League action this evening hoping to respond to last weekend's defeat to Tottenham.

Traders in Wigan say the closure of a popular car park is the 'final nail' in the coffin for business owners in the once thriving market town.

My previous experiences of riding the Met have been somewhat colourful.

John Mayer has tested positive for COVID-19 a second time, leading to the next four shows on his ‘Sob Rock’ tour being pushed back to May.The songster shared his diagnosis overnight (February 25), confirming that alongside himself, several members in his band have also wound up with the virus. It comes just days after Mayer’s touring drummer tested positive, with Questlove stepping in to fill his role at the band’s New York City gig.Whelp.

Code Orange have dropped a visually stunning concert film titled Back Inside The Glass, which the hardcore outfit initially premiered as a ticketed livestream event.The one-off gig went down in October of 2020, streamed live – in VR, no less – from the Preserving Underground Church in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. It was particularly notable for its immersive and cinematic visuals, with the band performing to a fave-camera setup on an entirely projection-mapped stage.The show saw Code Orange perform over half of their fourth album, ‘Underneath’ – they’d released it in March of 2020, but couldn’t perform it to a proper crowd until 2021 thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

LCD Soundsystem will be the musical guests on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live.Set to air tomorrow night (February 26), the episode will be hosted by John Mulaney, marking his fifth time presenting the late night sketch show.It’s the second time James Murphy and co. have played SNL, the first time being back in 2017 when they were promoting their last album, ‘American Dream’.With each episode of the show, the hosts and musical guests get together to shoot a promo for the forthcoming episode.

Turning Red, wherein powerhouse siblings Finneas and Billie Eilish – the former appearing as part of the fictional boyband 4*Town (a tongue-in-cheek riff on *NSYNC) – take fans right back to 2002.Titled ‘Nobody Like U’, the song is an almost scarily accurate pastiche of early ‘00s pop. It starts with washed-out vocals, clicky synth beats and quasi-flamenco strumming, before bursting into a lively bop driven by bold, modulated piano chords and stacked lead vocals.Opening the intently cheesy, ultra-nostalgic track, the fictional 4*Town quintet – flanked by Eilish on backing vocals – croon: “I’ve never met nobody like you / Had friends and I’ve had buddies, it’s true / But they don’t turn my tummy the way you do.”Check out the lyric video for ‘Nobody Like U’, replete with scrapbook-esque nods to relics of ‘00s culture, below:Finneas voices the role of Jesse in Turning Red, with his “bandmates” rounded out by Robaire (as portrayed by Jordan Fisher), Aaron T (Topher Ngo), Aaron Z (Josh Levi) and Tae Young (Grayson Villanueva). The film is set for a worldwide release on March 11.

It’s never going to fit in there, you think. Surely not. But every time, the giant stuffed Chinese answer to a crepe somehow manages to fold its way into the bag, before a plastic fork is jabbed unceremoniously into its innards.

A few weeks ago, on an up-to-that-point uneventful Monday tea-time, my dog - a tricolour King Charles spaniel called Diesel, died - aged 15 years and three months.

By Cynthia Littleton