Healthcare apprenticeship scheme in GM 'requires improvement'

EMMERDALE fans were left horrified as Sam Dingle suffered a horrific accident with a digger while a storm rips through the Dales village. As part of Emmerdale's 50th anniversary on ITV, the village is hit with a horrific storm and show bosses teased deaths and heartache to mark the drama series' half-century milestone. But fans of the hit soap were left gobsmacked as a gory scene showed Sam Dingle slumped across a digger, impaled by the spikes of the vehicle's shovel.

Too Faced makeup often features strongly on many of our Christmas lists, but with the trending products costing upwards of £25 each, buying more than one item from the brand can start to get very expensive very quickly – which is why you need to make full use of this new offer.Too Faced has teamed up with Boots to launch a Greatest Hits Set.This limited edition bundle, £35 here, launches today in Boots stores and online, and includes some of the brand’s hero products worth £102.That’s a whopping £67 saving on full-size and travel-size makeup favourites. What’s included in the kit? Better Than Sex Mascara, full size worth £25 Hangover 3-in-1 Replenishing Primer and Setting Spray, full size worth £30 Killer Kajal Eyeliner, full size worth £19 Lip Injection Extreme, travel size worth £13 Hangover Replenishing Face Primer, travel size worth £15 We can already see plenty of beauty lovers making use of this offer while it lasts (until October 31, so act fast).

Dan Levy (Schitt’s Creek) is set to write, star in, and direct a new Queer film.The film, called Good Grief, will be released on Netflix and will also star Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast). In a post to celebrating the news, Levy wrote, “Well, this is a g d dream come true!”Well, this is a g d dream come true! https://t.co/8Opw95bAVa pic.twitter.com/iULw34n6kM— dan levy (@danjlevy) October 17, 2022Evans posted to social media, writing, “What a dream team. So thrilled.”According to Netflix, Good Grief follows Marc Dreyfus (Levy) who, after losing his mother, decides to try and distract himself with a comfortable marriage.

Little Simz has won the 2022 Mercury Prize with her fourth studio album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.The 28- year old artist was among the 12 acts who were in the running for the prestigious award, alongside Harry Styles and Sam Fender.The announcement was made by DJ Jamz Supernova during the award ceremony, which recognises the best British or Irish album of the year, at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, West London, on Tuesday evening. Accepting her prize onstage, the British rapper and singer said she was “very overwhelmed and grateful” to receive the accolade. “To my family over here, my loved ones right here.

Details of the scheme and what constitutes a grassroots music venue can be found here, with applications to be filed here. Funding for the initiative comes from the MVT’s Revive Live tour, which took place this summer and saw Charli XCX, Paolo Nutini, Sleaford Mods and more perform at small venues around the country.Of the new fund, Music Venue Trust CEO Mark Davyd said: “We have been working on music industry based funding support for Grassroots Music Venues since 2018.

It’s hard to believe that when shopping for clothes, there is a certain time they can be worn for before they “expire” and need to be replaced. Just like food, women’s underwear also has a time limit on how long it should be used for before being replaced.

Emmerdale actor Jay Kontzle, who said he owes his grandparents everything, is backing a campaign to better support kinship carers to receive “the recognition they deserve”. The 32-year-old, who plays Billy Fletcher in ITV’s Emmerdale, was brought up by his grandparents following the death of his mother when he was four years old. As part of a charity campaign, he is urging people to sign a petition calling on the government to better support kinship carers.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Saudi-owned MBC Group, which is the top broadcaster in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has forged a five-year partnership with Turkish TV production powerhouses Medyapim and Ay Yapim, officially ending a ban on Turkish soaps that had been put in place in 2018. MBC, which is the top satellite free-to-air player in the Middle East and North Africa, and also a major MENA region premium streamer, in 2018 had pulled highly popular Turkish dramas from its channels, allegedly for political reasons stemming from tensions at that time between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The move was also believed to have been made to give greater impetus to local production. Since then, several Turkish shows had gradually seeped back into MBC programming. But this deal signals a complete policy reversal.

Penny Lancaster has said she's extremely proud of her husband Sir Rod Stewart and his quest to help settle Ukrainian families in the UK, saying: "He is always giving back".

DMA’S have shared details of a UK tour booked to go down next April.The run will kick off in Cambridge on Wednesday April 5, with shows in Exeter and Bournemouth to follow in quick succession. They’ll round that week out with a gig in Aylesbury on Sunday April 9, before rolling on to Wolverhampton, Lincoln, Bradford, Middlesbrough and Dundee over the following week.From there, the Australian indie rockers will play in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Manchester, before wrapping up the tour in London on Friday April 21.

Jimmy Eat World have shared their new single ‘Place Your Debts’ – you can listen to the track below.Self-produced by the band, the song follows on from the four-piece’s June single ‘Something Loud’ and its subsequent acoustic rearrangement, which arrived in September.‘Place Your Debts’ was written by Jimmy Eat World in collaboration with Clark Baechle (The Faint) and Denver Dalley (Desaparecidos). “The ‘debt’ you rack up is the time you spend avoiding doing the work to know yourself,” frontman Jim Adkins explained in a statement.“You buy an ending every time you start something, and the cost is determined by how closely you pay attention to your personal condition,” he added.A video for ‘Place Your Debts’, which you can watch below, has also arrived today (October 19).Directed by and starring Adkins, the clip was filmed throughout the UK, US and Europe during the band’s recent tour.“It’s a series of many, many edits of me singing to the camera,” the frontman explained.

Martin Lewis and Angelica Bell returned for a new series of Money Show Live this week and jumped straight into cost of living issues affecting millions of households across the country. The duo started by helping people understand changes coming next April once the UK Government withdraws its £2,500 Energy Price Guarantee when gas and electricity bills are already being forecast to hit £4,350.

Netflix announced an upcoming thriller Korean series, The Bequeathed, to be written by Train To Busan and Hellbound director Yeon Sang-ho.South Korean news outlet Yonhap News Agency reported yesterday (October 18) that Netflix had decided to produce the brand-new series written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho. The streaming platform also announced the casting of actors Kim Hyun-joo (Trolley, Love All Play) and Park Hee-soon (A Model Family, My Name) in lead roles for The Bequeathed.

South Lanarkshire Council has approved plans to develop a huge battery storage system in Lanark.

The Great British Bake Off viewers were left divided by the unusual timing of this week's themes.

Dan Levy (Schitt’s Creek) is set to write, star in, and direct a new Queer film.The film, called Good Grief, will be released on Netflix and will also star Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast). In a post to celebrating the news, Levy wrote, “Well, this is a g d dream come true!”Well, this is a g d dream come true! https://t.co/8Opw95bAVa pic.twitter.com/iULw34n6kM— dan levy (@danjlevy) October 17, 2022Evans posted to social media, writing, “What a dream team. So thrilled.”According to Netflix, Good Grief follows Marc Dreyfus (Levy) who, after losing his mother, decides to try and distract himself with a comfortable marriage.

Villagers have paid tribute to legendary Scots actor and Killearn resident Robbie Coltrane after he died last week aged 72.

SZA has revealed that she has written 100 songs for her new album, adding that it could be released “any day” now.The singer’s long-awaited second album, and follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2017 debut ‘Ctrl’, has been touted for years, though she recently said she was in no rush to release it.Speaking to TMZ paparazzi at LAX airport, SZA has now revealed that she has written a huge amount of songs for the record over the last five years, and that its release date is still up in the air – but could be imminent.Revealing that the album’s rollout could start “any day” now, SZA was then asked how many songs she has written for the album.“Total? 100,” she replied. “Maybe, like, I don’t even know actually.

Former Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison said she was 'fighting back tears' as she left her fiancé and dog to start a new job in Newcastle.

more behind-the-scenes Don't Worry Darling drama, you thought wrong. The press cycle that gave us those Miss Flo memes, that #Spitgate situation and plenty of questions about Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde's relationship has yet another unhinged development—this one involving a salad, of all things. According to The Daily Mail, screenshots of alleged tweets from the former nanny of now-exes Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis reveal how Wilde's making a salad with "special dressing" for the "As It Was" pop star led to a blowup between her and Sudeikis back in November 2020, so much so that the Ted Lasso actor reportedly laid under the tires of Wilde's car to prevent her from leaving to meet up with Styles.

Handmade posters have been placed around a town accusing a woman of 'weeing on benches' and telling people to beware if they happen to see her. A post on Facebook page Bilston Online caused a stir after it asked fellow social media users if they had seen the posters.

As the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) prepares to roll out its second wave of cost of living payments across the country, pensioners may be unaware that they could be eligible for extra help.

Brand new image renders have been revealed for the upcoming Manchester-based Co-op Live arena.

Pub owners were left feeling "on edge" after their building was spayed with anti-English graffiti.

Jose Mourinho reckons former Manchester United defender Chris Smalling ought to be handed a shock England recall for the impending World Cup finals in Qatar. Mourinho and Smalling are currently working together with AS Roma after their respective spells at Old Trafford.