MP describes HS2 plans to suspend Ashton tram link during Piccadilly station rebuild as 'disastrous'

Helen Flanagan has shared a stripped back glimpse at being mum away from the glam side of social media.

Former X Factor star Jahmene looks almost unrecognisable a decade on from appearing on the reality show. Jahmene Douglas, now 31, appeared on the ITV show in 2012 and ended the series in second place behind winner James Arthur. When the singer appeared in the show a decade ago, where he was mentored by Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger, he sported a clean shaven face and cropped hair.

Jack Whitehall’s girlfriend Roxy Horner was rushed to hospital earlier this week after falling unwell as a result of her diabetes. Roxy, 30, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last year, and has since been documenting how she copes with the lifelong condition on social media.

Dancing On Ice host Holly Willoughby looked incredible on Sunday's episode as she opted for a pink plunging dress. The This Morning star, 41, took to Instagram ahead of the ITV show to give her 7.6 million followers a glimpse at her outfit for the latest instalment of the skating competition.

Police in Cumbernauld have again stepped up their search for a missing woman.

A mum told of her horror when she found her violent ex was spying on her using a camera hidden in her wardrobe.

A young singer from Airdrie is delighted to be performing at Scotland's biggest country music festival next month.

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are all into their wedding planning. Still, they’ve encountered some roadblocks. In an appearance on “The Late Late Show With James Corden,” Machine Gun Kelly spoke about the difficulty in planning his perfect gothic wedding.Megan Fox and MGK recreate epic bathroom photo with James Corden’s parentsMegan Fox laughs as she is called MGK’s wife at NBA gameA post shared by the Blonde Don (@machinegunkelly)When speaking with Corden, Kelly said that one area that has proved to be particularly difficult was finding the perfect venue.

We Don’t Talk About Bruno also continues its firm grip on the Official Singles Chart, furthering its lead at Number 1 in our First Look Update. It’s looking at a seventh week at the top of the chart.

Dave Grohl has spoken about his recent collaboration with Liam Gallagher, and has called the former Oasis frontman “one of the last remaining rock stars”.Earlier this month, Gallagher released ‘Everything’s Electric’, the first single to be taken from his upcoming new solo album ‘C’MON YOU KNOW’, which is set for release on May 27 and is the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Why Me? Why Not.’.The song was co-written by Foo Fighters frontman Grohl, who also plays drums on the track, and its producer Greg Kurstin.In a new interview with NME, Grohl, who is currently promoting Foo Fighters’ new gross-out splatter horror Studio 666, praised Gallagher and talked about how the track came about.“Unfortunately we didn’t do it in person but I love being in the same room as Liam,” he said of the collaboration. “It’s like putting a fucking quarter in a juke box and just turning it up with that guy. It’s fucking great. Obviously, he’s an amazing singer and he’s a fucking rock star.

Nandi Bushell has shared a guitar cover of Jimi Hendrix‘s 1967 track ‘Little Wing’ – you can watch it below.The 11-year-old child prodigy’s take on the song, which you can view below, follows her recent covers of Rush’s ‘Tom Sawyer’, Billie Eilish‘s ‘Happier Than Ever’, Tool’s ‘Forty Six & 2’, ‘Gimme Shelter’ by The Rolling Stones, ‘Numb’ by Linkin Park, ‘Duality’ by Slipknot, and a rollicking cover of Ed Sheeran and Bring Me The Horizon‘s new collaboration, ‘Bad Habits“Peace, Love and Respect! This is #littlewing by #jimihendrix, one of my favourite #hendrix tunes,” Bushell wrote on Twitter, sharing a clip of her cover. “I have spent this week relaxing, off school, and jamming my #fender #guitar To all #peace #love and #respect.”You can check out Bushell’s cover of ‘Little Wings’ below:Peace, Love and Respect! This is #littlewing by #jimihendrix, one of my favourite #hendrix tunes.

David Beckham and two of his kids, Romeo, 19, and Cruz, 17, sit on the sidelines for MLS’s Inter Miami season opener on Saturday (February 26) in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The cast of luminaries that first-time filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz assembles in documentary have one thing in common – extreme adoration for the famed Horn & Hardart eateries, whose soaring ceilings, famed coffee and wholesome vending-machine meals for a nickel dominated the food scene in Philadelphia and NYC through much of last century.

Watford manager Roy Hodgson has highlighted the key problem at Manchester United this season following his side's 0-0 draw at Old Trafford on Saturday.

Uma Thurman paid a virtual visit to “The Graham Norton Show”, where she promoted her new series “Suspicion”.

Energy prices could increase again in the summer after Ofgem handed itself new powers to make emergency changes to the price cap.

NFTs), including 10 lifetime festival passes.The Indio, California festival, which is set to return this year from April 15-17 and 22-24, has partnered with the cryptocurrency exchange FTX for the new venture, which it says will operate in an “environmentally friendly marketplace”.The new NFT set, named ‘Coachella Collectibles’, is giving collectors the “opportunity to own lifetime festival passes, unlock unique on-site experiences, physical items and digital collectibles”.Among the NFT collections that are set to go up for sale on Friday (February 4) is the ‘Coachella Keys Collection’, billed as “10 NFT keys that grant you lifetime access to Coachella”.“This includes passes to one festival weekend every April and Coachella-produced virtual experiences… forever,” a description promises.A post shared by Coachella (@coachella)The owners of these 10 NFTs will also be given “unique experiences” at Coachella 2022, including “front and centre views at the Coachella Stage, lifetime Safari camping, or a dinner prepared by a professional chef in the Rose Garden”.“We’ve all seen how NFTs enable true ownership of art and media on the internet. We wanted to take it one step further and use NFTs to enable ownership of experiences in the real world, too,” Sam Schoonover, Innovation Lead for Coachella, said in a statement.“Only blockchain technology can give us the unique ability to offer tradable lifetime passes to Coachella for the first time ever.

Brian Flores, the former coach of the Miami Dolphins, has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit during what should be the game’s high point in the runup to the Super Bowl.

Andrew Gwynne MP has blasted a developer for attempting to overturn a decision that stops it from extending an industrial estate into ‘precious’ green belt.

Lisa Vanderpump is reportedly in the hospital but will be all right.

Bill Maher saved his best for last on his Friday night Real Time on HBO. After bland discussions on civil liberties, Covid-19 rules, affirmative action, and whether actual partisan combat may be brewing, he turned his guns on an unexpected target – the leftist progressives whose crazy demands have turned real life into comedy gold.

Bill Cosby’s rep Andrew Wyatt has issued a statement regarding W. Kamau Bell’s four-part docuseries “We Need to Talk About Cosby”.

The Scottish Government has published a Bill which would make some of its emergency coronavirus powers permanent.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“What would you do if you had six months left to live?” asks the doctor who diagnoses a do-nothing bureaucrat with terminal cancer in “Ikiru,” a 1952 masterpiece I suspect precious few of those who see its English-language remake, “Living,” will recall. Quite unlike anything else in Akira Kurosawa’s career, “Ikiru” ranks among the Japanese director’s best: With no samurai battles or set-pieces, the low-key contemporary melodrama raises profound questions about how we choose to spend the limited time we’re afforded, focusing on a stoic functionary about whom even the narrator apologizes, “He might as well be a corpse.”Culturally specific as so much of “Ikiru” may be, its lessons translate quite well to midcentury British society, courtesy of Nobel-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who did the work of adapting it to 1953 London for director Oliver Hermanus (“Moffie”).

Andy Burnham has called on the Government to show 'ambition' for the north by building the 'right' high-speed railway station in Manchester.

Environmental activists are to stage a protest in Piccadilly Gardens on Monday against the expansion of the HS2 high-speed railway.

Manchester is set to be offered faster train journeys as the Bill for next phase of HS2 is announced by the Government today.

A Tameside MP has said the response from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) regarding the opposition of plans to close down the only driving test centre in Tameside provides 'no meaningful reconsideration'.

Britney Spears’ legal battles after getting out of her conservatorship are still continuing. The 40-year-old popstar lawyer filed new documents, obtained by HollywoodLife, before a hearing on Wednesday January 19, claiming that Britney’s dad Jamie Spears and his legal team took millions of dollars from the singer throughout her conservatorship. The singer’s lawyer Mathew Rosengart laid out all of the money that Jamie and legal teams allegedly took from the singer over the course of the 13 year conservatorship.