Man arrested following robbery of walkers late at night

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe NFL’s “Thursday Night Football” may be moving to Amazon, but it’s going to be measured as if it were still playing on traditional TV.Nielsen and Amazon have struck a three-year deal to measure Prime Video’s new season of “Thursday Night Football” and stack it up against TV programs with national audiences tabulated by the media-measurement giant. The pact comes as many of the nation’s big media companies have vociferously expressed disapproval of Nielsen’s efforts in the streaming era and tried to prod advertisers to consider other forms of audience measurement.Nielsen said the agreement marks the first time a streaming service will have one of its live programs measured as part of the company’s measurement of national TV audiences.

Nielsen and Amazon have reached a landmark deal for measuring the viewership of Thursday Night Football, which begins an unprecedented run next month as a streaming exclusive on Prime Video.

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Memento International has boarded TIFF Discovery drama Something You Said Last Night by director Luis De Filippis.

An Oscar statue goes missing in Hassan Nazer’s amiable feature Winners, which had its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

The “Teen Mom” reality franchise is back with the new trailer for “Teen Mom: The Next Chapter” and the forthcoming MTV series will feature some of the show’s most iconic alums.

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Finch Films has boarded international sales (excluding North America) to Mali Elfman’s sci-fi mystery Next Exit, which premiered at Tribeca earlier this year. North American distribution will be handled by Magnolia Pictures.

A man has been left with 'life changing' injuries following a crash in Ashton-in-Makerfield. Emergency services were to reports of RTC between a lorry and pedestrian yesterday (August 15) on Gerard Street at around 11:23am.

An inquest has been opened into the deaths of two people after human remains were discovered at a mill in Oldham last month.

Sergio Gomez's transfer to Manchester City got the thumbs up from Vincent Kompany, the new defender has revealed.

A mum says she was 'gutted' for her little boy after they were not able to fly to Spain due to her passport being issued more than ten years ago. Shirelle Quinn and her son Freddy, from South Tyneside, were due to fly to Alicante in Spain from Newcastle Airport on Saturday morning (August 13).

The Stones Roses’ Mani and his wife Imelda have announced a charity fundraiser following the latter’s cancer diagnosis.Imelda Mountfield, an events agent, was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in November 2020. She and her husband are now aiming to raise awareness and funds for The Christie Hospital and The Stockport Charitable Trust.Billed as This Is The One – a nod to the Stone Roses song of the same name – the fundraiser is set to take place at The Kimpton Clocktower Hotel in Manchester on November 18 and will feature a night of “first-class” music and entertainment curated by Mani.A raffle will also take place on the night, as well as an online auction featuring “unique memorabilia”.

There's one specific drink that Prince Charles enjoys every evening before tucking into his dinner, according to one of his friends. Charles' close pal Count Tibor Kalnoky appeared in new Channel 4 series The Real Windsors: The Outspoken Heir and revealed all about the royal's routine, after Charles travelled to visit him in Viscri, Transylvania many years ago.There was one drink the 73 year old would enjoy "every night" while visiting the Eastern European country, where he eventually decided to buy small countryside house.

A brave Galloways worker managed to go viral on social media after splitting up a fight in Wigan town centre last week. The video showed three men brawling on the floor when the bakery worker stepped in and pulled them apart.

Sergio Gomez says he has joined Manchester City to win trophies after finalising his move from Anderlecht.

A decision to appoint a man as Scotland's first period poverty tsar has been slammed by tennis legend Martina Navratilova amid calls for a woman to be given the role.

Dame Deborah James' mother has told how much the support of the public in her daughter’s final weeks meant to her, and has also spoken of her greatest heartbreak during Deborah's last days. Podcaster and campaigner Dame Deborah, known by her social media handle Bowelbabe, died on June 28 at the age of 40, after being diagnosed with bowel cancer at the age of 35. Appearing on BBC Breakfast this morning (16 August), Deborah's mum Heather James spoke of the hardest moment during the weeks leading up to her daughter's tragic death.

Confidence Man have announced details of their UK and Ireland tour that’s set to take place in November – you can see the dates and find ticket information below.The Brisbane band had previously confirmed shows in London and Manchester in early November, including a pair of gigs at London’s KOKO and a trio of shows at Manchester’s New Century Hall.Confidence Man will now tour the UK and Ireland throughout November, with further gigs set to take place in Glasgow, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, Nottingham and Dublin.Tickets for these newly announced shows are set to go on sale on Friday (August 19) at 9am, and you’ll be able to buy them here.A post shared by Confidence Man (@confidenceman_)You can see Confidence Man’s upcoming UK and Ireland tour schedule below.November1 – KOKO, London3 – Roundhouse, London4 – KOKO, London9 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow10 – New Century, Manchester11 – New Century, Manchester12 – New Century, Manchester15 – O2 Academy, Bristol16 – Tramshed, Cardiff17 – University Stylus, Leeds22 – O2 Academy, Liverpool23 – O2 Institute, Birmingham24 – Rock City, Nottingham25 – National Stadium, DublinBack in April Confidence Man released their second studio album, ‘Tilt’.Speaking about the record, which is the follow-up to their 2018 debut ‘Confident Music For Confident People’, back in March, Confidence Man frontwoman Janet Planet told NME: “I feel like the pop music we’re writing has an edge. It’s weird and it’s wonky.

Hard-Fi have announced a special Manchester reunion show next month – tickets will be available from here.Earlier this year, the Staines band confirmed that they’d be reforming for their first gig since 2014. That performance will take place at the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London on October 1, and sold out within 10 minutes of going on sale.During an interview with NME shortly afterwards, frontman Richard Archer explained that Hard-Fi were likely to play more gigs due to the positive reaction to their comeback.

Rochelle Humes was left having a cry after she returned home to a note from her daughter. The presenter has had a busy time hosting This Morning in recent weeks with Vernon Kay, Craig Doyle and this week with Andi Peters.

Playboi Carti has been announced as a special guest performer for Rolling Loud New York 2022. Tickets are available here.

A lorry driver has avoided jail after colliding with and killing a mum-of-four who was trapped in her car which had broken down on the motorway. John Bowers, 35, was driving a skip lorry on the M60 anticlockwise carriageway when he failed to spot a Kia Ceed was stationary with its hazard lights flashing on the hatch marked area separating lane one of the motorway from the slip road at junction 20.

We have all found ourselves reciting our mums' favourite sayings over the years and many of us grew up hearing them on a daily basis.

Olivia Rodrigo will induct Alanis Morissette into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Toronto next month.“I remember hearing Alanis for the first time when I was about 13,” Rodrigo – who performed Morissette’s 1995 hit ‘You Oughta Know’ alongside her during a show in Los Angeles earlier this year – said in a statement.“I was in the car with my parents when Jagged Little Pill came on. I heard’ Perfect,’ I was like, ‘Oh, my God… You can write songs like that?’ I just looked at music and songwriting in a completely different way.”Last year, Rodrigo and Morissette were paired for a Rolling Stone podcast feature, in which they interviewed one another about songwriting and their early careers.

Guy Lodge Film CriticHaving failed to cut it in the city, mild-mannered Romanian cop Ilie takes a lower-pressure job as a police chief in a rural village near the Moldovan border. Expecting a quieter, easier life of mostly benign duties, he instead encounters even more violence and moral rot than he did before.