Emma Saunders Culture reporter Getty Images Charli XCX is expected to draw a huge crowd when she headlines the Other Stage this year Glastonbury Festival has sold “a few thousand less tickets” this year in an attempt to ease the build-up of heavy crowds, organiser Emily Eavis has said. This year’s event, which will take...
Joe Crowley / BBC Kate Pryke is campaigning to prevent new housing being built in a village where sewage facilities are over capacity On the edge of Buckingham in southern England, the quiet and leafy village of Maids Moreton, dotted with thatched cottages, is at the heart of a dilemma. There is a plan –...
Phil McNulty, BBC Sport chief football writer Aston Villa’s announcement of expansion plans to extend the capacity of Villa Park to more than 50,000 is another indicator of the ambition fuelling the club’s revival under manager Unai Emery. Under the ownership of executive chairman Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens, Villa have been restored to the...
The message about winning the collision from the leadership team quickly came to fruition when Jess Breach burst down the wing to score a disallowed try just over 30 seconds into the second half. It was the start of a free-flowing half of rugby from the Red Roses, led by fly-half Harrison, who despite being...
Wimbledon is planning to renovate its iconic ‘Henman Hill’ and increase capacity for the tournament’s 150th anniversary. Thousands of fans have watched action on a big screen from the grass slope which is open to supporters without show-court tickets. The proposed revamp – which has not yet been approved – would increase the hill’s capacity...
Barcelona – top of La Liga and in the Champions League quarter-finals – announced a deal on 3 January to sell VIP boxes at the club’s Nou Camp stadium, which is being rebuilt, in order to raise 100m euros (£83m). But La Liga says the deal was not recorded in the accounts submitted by Barcelona...