Vanessa PearceWest Midlands
BBCTwenty years after topping the charts with their million-selling hit JCB Song, the band that inspired a teenage Ed Sheeran is to open shows for him….

Vanessa PearceWest Midlands
BBCTwenty years after topping the charts with their million-selling hit JCB Song, the band that inspired a teenage Ed Sheeran is to open shows for him….

Cambridge Dictionary named “parasocial” as Word of the Year for 2025.
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AI chatbots, Taylor Swift, and social media influencers all played a part in deciding Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year,…

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Washing machines liberated women to get soul-crushing jobs that ate up their free time. Social media gave the world one revolution – before it destabilised democracies everywhere else. Now AI is here, and its main job seems to be replacing…

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A very modern period drama in the rompy style of The Great and Mary & George. First aired on StarzPlay in 2022, the story is set in 16th-century France and follows Italian Catherine de Medici (Liv Hill plays the…

Fátima Bosch, who represented Mexico at the 74th Miss Universe pageant held in Bangkok, Thailand, became the titleholder of Miss Universe 2025. She won the pageant, competing against over 100 participants from across the world, but the journey…

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A canceled Lithuanian martial arts champion finds refuge in a Taiwanese family’s restaurant as he tries to piece his life back together in China Sea, a hard-hitting drama about the weight of guilt and second chances from director Jurgis…

The open of Sagittarius Season features two omens from Mercury — both auspicious trines, first to Saturn and then Jupiter. It’s like a note dropped in the suggestion box, a request for the manager, a prayer wafted to the winds — this one…

Wicked: For Good
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Was the decision to split this Broadway musical big-screen adaptation into two parts motivated by art or money? Part two is here, so you can judge for yourself. The Wizard of Oz-inspired story picks up with…