Mark Savage Music Correspondent EPA Olivia Rodrigo will close the festival on Sunday 29 June With just three weeks to go, Glastonbury Festival has unveiled its full line-up and stage times for 2025 – complete with gaps for secret sets. The 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo will headline the Pyramid Stage, with other highlights...
Last week we learned that Elias Rodriguez, the man who murdered two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC, had left behind a manifesto in which he justified the use of violence. Here’s a bit of it. The impunity that representatives of our government feel at abetting this slaughter should be revealed as an illusion, then…...
Yasmin Rufo Culture reporter HBO Arabella Stanton, Dominic McLaughlin and Alastair Stout have been cast to play Hermione, Harry and Ron HBO has announced the young actors who will play the lead trio in its TV series adaption of JK Rowling’s book series, Harry Potter. Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton and Alastair Stout have been cast...
Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent FOSTER + PARTNERS The winning monument will be built at St James’s Park in London A final shortlist of five proposed designs for the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II has been revealed by the government. The memorial, commemorating the life of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch who died in September 2022, will...
A new study has found that a mix of different types of tiny plastic particles (microplastics) is more harmful to a small marine creature than just one type of plastic. The creature, called Acartia tonsa, is important because it is part of the ocean’s food chain, said researchers from the universities of Exeter and Plymouth,...
Shutterstock for Big Brother Six of the original 13 celebrities were left in the Big Brother house for Friday’s final Warning: This story contains spoilers about who has won Celebrity Big Brother Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd has been crowned the winner of this year’s Celebrity Big Brother. Shepherd, who has played David Platt...
Liv McMahon & Tom Gerken Technology reporters Bethesda Video game studio Bethesda has announced the long-rumoured launch of a remastered version of its 2006 hit Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The fourth instalment of the series has maintained a cult following among fans despite it being almost two decades since its original release. Now, gamers have...
Zed Nelson The winners of the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced, with Zed Nelson named as Photographer of the Year for The Anthropocene Illusion, a project exploring the fractured relationship between humans and the natural world. Nelson’s project takes its name from the term Anthropocene – the current geological epoch where human...
Samar Abu Elouf for the New York Times This image of a young Gazan boy won World Press Photo of the Year A haunting image of a young Gazan boy recovering from war injuries has been named World Press Photo of the Year for 2025. The portrait, taken by Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf for...
Family handout Susan was no more than puzzled when she saw the first results from her home DNA testing kit. Now a woman in her mid 70s, she had never known much about her grandfather, and paid for the private test to see if it threw up anything unusual. “I did notice there was a...
A new summer programme of Red Coat Guided Tours has been released and there are some exciting new tours. The summer programme starts on Tuesday 1 April and all tours are totally free. New for 2025 are: · Exeter Blitz tour – 4 May, 11.15am and 3pm · VE Day and After talk – 8...
Torbay Council Torbay Council says the plans will revolutionise the Torquay harbourside Torquay’s harbourside is set to be regenerated in a multi-million-pound project aimed at attracting new visitors to the town. The redevelopment, which will stretch across The Strand in Torquay, is projected to provide about 80 full-time jobs, £32m in wages, and bring 86,000...
It’s the question everyone is asking. Who will start for England against Albania on Friday in Thomas Tuchel’s first game as Three Lions boss. We asked BBC Sport readers who they would select when the squad was announced on Thursday and the results are below. Chelsea midfielder Cole Palmer did make the initial line-up but...