Category: 5. Entertainment

Former England cricketer Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff and his wife Rachael are backing an appeal to raise £1.1m to build Manchester’s first in-hospital cinema.

The fully accessible 50-seat cinema would be specially kitted out to enable patients of…

After he received the statue as a birthday present, Mr Mason’s thoughts turned to raising money for charity.

“There’s an organisation called the Bruce Trust, which runs canal boats for the disabled,” he said.

“We thought a good way of raising some…

Mr Johnson described his brother as a “jokester and very funny character” who he would read ghost stories with as a child.

“I felt, as his brother, that he could always talk to me, because I knew that I could always talk to him,” he said.

However,…

Mr Hickie said his passion for photography started when he was 14.

“I’m not too sure what actually sparked the interest,” he said.

“I’ve always been creative and I’ve always loved the outdoors, so I think when I picked up the camera, it just kind…

When she first moved back to the UK with her husband and young child, she was concerned about getting the levels of work she had in Dubai.

But another performer had recommended her to an agent in the UK and she was quickly offered a job and was…

Meesha Jones thought she’d serve her last drink on New Year’s Eve.

“I’ve had, you know, multiple small breakdowns over the past,” Jones said.

Oasis nightclub, where she’s worked the past 10 years, announced plans to close six months ago.

New…

Record producer and jazz musician Joe Trudgeon came up with the idea after he found a copy in a charity shop, and recognised the names of several musicians he plays alongside.

“A lot of the musicians who were on the original one are sadly no…

In the reception class at Smethwick’s Victoria Park Academy, Aria, four, loves books that make her giggle.

Her favourite is The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, because of the fox sleeping in a sock and the giraffe’s…

A plan for 99 homes on land near Bicester can go ahead after a planning inspector overturned a council’s rejection of it.

Richborough Estates took the project for the site west of Fringford Road in Caversfield to an appeal after Cherwell District…