British actor Paul Darrow, best known for his role as Kerr Avon in sci-fi BBC TV series Blake’s 7, has died at the age of 78 following a short illness. Most recently, Darrow voiced soundbites for independent radio stations Jack FM and Union Jack, where he was known as the “Voice of Jack”. The character […]
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Image copyright Tracie Kirby Image caption Tracie and Lucas Kirby travelled up from Suffolk for his first big concert experience The mother of a disabled teenage boy said they were “treated like animals” at a Take That concert at Norwich City’s stadium. Tracie Kirby said sound issues in the disabled area meant that she and
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Image caption Sissay wrote a poem for the FA Cup in 2015 called Adventure Flight Lemn Sissay, who was an official poet for the London 2012 Olympics, has been awarded this year’s Pen Pinter prize. The award, which champions free speech, was established in 2009 by writers’ charity English Pen in memory of playwright Harold
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Image caption Tidmarsh presented Outlook for more than 30 years Tributes have been paid to the former BBC World Service presenter John Tidmarsh who has died at the age of 90. He presented the Outlook magazine programme on the BBC World Service for more than three decades. The programme offered world news, current affairs, features
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Image copyright PA Image caption George Galloway hosted a weekly show on TalkRADIO George Galloway has been sacked by talkRADIO after sending an allegedly anti-Semitic tweet. The former MP posted on the social media site after the Champions League final between Liverpool and Tottenham on Saturday night. He praised Liverpool’s win, before adding: “No #Israël
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Image copyright Dymond/Thames/Syco/REX/Shutterstock Image caption The 89-year-old will donate some of his £250,000 to the Royal Hospital Chelsea Chelsea Pensioner Colin Thackery has become the oldest winner of Britain’s Got Talent. As well as winning a slot performing in front of the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance, he will also bank a cheque for
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Image copyright ITV Image caption This year’s Islanders were filmed arriving at the villa over the weekend A chef, a scientist and a firefighter walk into a villa. The return of Love Island every summer has the same comforting familiarity as a lousy Christmas cracker joke. But for its fifth series, which begins on Monday
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Image copyright PA Image caption There was no Glastonbury Festival in 2018 A band criticised for calling on members of the Conservative Party to be killed have had their Glastonbury Festival booking cancelled. Killdren were invited to appear at Glastonbury’s Shangri-Hell International TV stage on 28 June. One of their songs is called Kill Tory
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Image copyright Getty Images More than 278,000 tickets were sold over the 11 days of the Hay Festival, up 5,000 on last year, organisers say. Book sales also rose by 2.5% with Heroic Failure by Fintan O’Toole and Matt Millz by Harry Millz most popular. Maxine Peake, Joanna Lumley and Stephen Fry were among stars
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Image caption Fat White Family performing at Glastonbury 2015 Two bands who have called for members of the Conservative Party to be killed are to perform at Glastonbury Festival 2019. One of Killdren’s best known songs is called Kill Tory Scum while Fat White Family have called for violence against Conservatives on social media. The
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