Yearly Archives: 2025

Luna Marble: Academy 3, Manchester

Luna Marble: Academy 3, Manchester

Luna Marble | Flat Moon | The PriorAcademy 3, Manchester3rd October 2025 Luna Marble take over Manchester’s Academy 3 and impress with a show that suggests the sky’s the limit from here. Mesmerising Mancunian rockers Luna Marble pour heart and soul into everything they do and hate leaving anything to chance. From their lovingly crafted music through to their fan engagement, striking stage sets and hand-picked support acts, their workaholic DIY approach is starting to pay dividends. Tonight,…

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Heavitree Road in Exeter closed for an extra week

A main road closure that has caused major traffic problems in Exeter will be closed for a week longer than expected due to engineering problems.Heavitree Road - the main bus route in and out of Exeter - will now be closed heading out of the city until Monday 13 October.The road was due to reopen last Sunday but Wales and West Utilities said work to upgrade the gas network had "taken longer than expected".The road closure has caused…

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Cold Beaches: Ambient Joy – Album Review

Cold Beaches: Ambient Joy – Album Review

Cold Beaches: Ambient Joy (Stay Hungry Records) Out Now Parisian indie-jazz outfit Cold Beaches, the creative vehicle of DC-born Sophia Nadia, returns with their dreamy new album Ambient Joy, an 11-track journey that melds psychedelic rock, jazz, funk and rock influences into lush, immersive soundscapes with both emotional and musical depth. Recorded at Forward Studios in Rome with producer Lucas Christoff and audio engineer Francesco Putorti, Ambient Joy features a carefully selected ensemble: Paolo Garoute on drums, Simon…

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Kwenzo Blose: Exeter prop to have surgery on ruptured Achilles

Exeter prop Kwenzo Blose is to undergo surgery after it was confirmed he has ruptured his Achilles.The South African forward was taken off injured 10 minutes after coming on from the bench in the Chiefs' 38-15 Prem win over Newcastle on Saturday.Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter said he hoped to see the 28-year-old back "before the end of the season"."We're all disappointed for Kwenzo," Baxter said. "He really started to emerge for us at the tail end…

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the Stone Roses 40th Anniversary

the Stone Roses 40th Anniversary

40th Anniversary release of the debut single by Mancunian icons The Stone Roses. This is the first time this single has had an official re-issue and is a collaboration between Vinyl Revival and the original label Thin Line. So Young and Tell Me were originally recorded and released in 1985 and produced by Martin Hannett. The original Stone Roses line up was Ian Brown, Andy Couzens, John Squire, Pete Garner and Alan Wren. Re-issued by kind permission from…

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Pine martens released on Exmoor in ‘positive sign for nature’

Pine martens released on Exmoor in ‘positive sign for nature’

PA MediaPine martens were successfully reintroduced to nearby Dartmoor last yearPine martens are roaming around Exmoor National Park for the first time in a century, conservationists have revealed.Nine females and 10 males from Scottish Highlands populations were introduced at secret locations on Exmoor by the Two Moors Pine Marten Project over three weeks last month.Each pine marten has been fitted with a radio collar so researchers can follow their fortunes over the next six to nine months.Devon Wildlife…

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Al Jazeera reporter reflects on two years of war in Gaza | Gaza

NewsFeedAl Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili reflects on the two years since Israel’s war on Gaza began, sharing a personal story of displacement, loss, and suffering.Published On 7 Oct 20257 Oct 2025Click here to share on social mediashare2SharefacebooktwitterwhatsappcopylinkSave Source link

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2023 ocean heatwave ‘unprecedented but not unexpected’

The June 2023 heatwave in northern European seas was “unprecedented but not unexpected”, new research shows. During the heatwave, temperatures in the shallow seas around the UK (including the North Sea and Celtic Sea) reached 2.9°C above the June average for 16 days. While unprecedented since observations began, the study warns that rapid climate change means there is now about a 10% chance of a marine heatwave of this scale occurring each year. The June 2023 marine heatwave…

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Axe Valley Wildlife Park in Devon to close gates after 17 years

A zoo has announced it will permanently close after 17 years, blaming "difficult" times for businesses.Axe Valley Wildlife Park, near Axminster in Devon, said in a statement that the "sad" decision to close on Friday had been made "with a heavy heart"."As many of you may have heard in the news, we are not the only business facing these difficult times," it said, adding: "Unfortunately, it has become financially unviable for us to continue operating."The zoo, which is…

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UNESCO board backs Egypt’s Khaled el-Enany as its next chief | United Nations News

The Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities will be the first Arab to lead the UN’s cultural organisation.The board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has nominated Egypt’s Khaled el-Enany, an academic and former minister of tourism and antiquities, as its next head, ahead of the organisation’s general conference next month.If confirmed, el-Enany, a professor of Egyptology at Cairo’s Helwan University, would become the first Arab director-general of the organisation, which oversees the UN’s…

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Help researchers track the fascinating history of seaweed eating in Cornwall

Researchers need the help of communities in Cornwall to help trace the fascinating history of seaweed eating. There has been a seaweed culinary revival in recent years, but people have eaten it for thousands of years. Seaweed’s historical use as a food seems to be less well remembered in Cornwall compared to Scotland, Wales and Ireland, where there are still living memories of foraging for and cooking with laver, dulse and carrageen. Now a research team are putting…

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