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  • India U-19 vs England U-19 live streaming info: Where to watch IND v ENG 3rd Youth ODI?

    India U-19 vs England U-19 live streaming info: Where to watch IND v ENG 3rd Youth ODI?

    When is the India Under-19 vs England Under-19 third Youth ODI?

    The India U-19 vs England U-19 third Youth ODI match will take place on Wednesday, July 2, and begin at 11:00 AM local time (3:30 PM IST).

    Where is the India Under-19 vs England Under-19 third Youth ODI?

    The India U-19 vs England U-19 third Youth ODI match will take place at the County Ground in Northampton.

    Where can I watch the India Under-19 vs England Under-19 third Youth ODI LIVE?

    Live streaming of the England vs India U-19 match will be available on the Steelbacks TV YouTube channel.

    Full Squads

    India U-19: Ayush Mhatre (Captain), Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Vihaan Malhotra, Maulyarajsinh Chavda, Rahul Kumar, Abhigyan Kundu (Vice-Captain & WK), Harvansh Singh (WK), R S Ambrish, Kanishk Chouhan, Khilan Patel, Henil Patel, Yudhajit Guha, Pranav Raghavendra, Mohammed Enaan, Aditya Rana, Anmoljeet Singh

    England U-19: Isaac Mohammed, Ben Dawkins, Jaydn Denly, Ben Mayes, Joseph Moores, Ralphie Albert, Rocky Flintoff, James Minto, Alexander Wade, Sebastian Morgan, Thomas Rew (c), Alex Green, Jack Home, Tazeem Chaudry Ali

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  • TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast | Television

    TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast | Television

    Gaza: Doctors Under Attack

    10pm, Channel 4

    Last month, the BBC said it was no longer airing a documentary about Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza because it risked creating “a perception of partiality” over the broadcaster’s coverage of the conflict. Channel 4 is now showing it instead. Ramita Navai investigates the allegations of the targeting of doctors and healthcare workers in Gaza’s 36 main hospitals – which the film says have all now been attacked by Israel. Hollie Richardson

    Can’t Sell, Must Sell

    8pm, Channel 4
    “Oh God, they’ve got the Live, Laugh, Love wallpaper – that needs to go.” In a slightly more bearable new property series, expert siblings Stuart and Scarlette Douglas help couples who are struggling to sell their properties. First up, a seriously cluttered cottage in Wales and a terrace with too much pink personality in Liverpool. HR

    Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace

    9pm, ITV1
    Long Lost Family often reveals the devastating impact of last-century attitudes to things like out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but this week tells the story of Sarah, the show’s youngest-ever foundling, who was left in a Surrey car park in 2001. Also featured is Chris, who was dropped off at a childminder’s 62 years ago and never collected. Ellen E Jones

    Britain’s Most Expensive Houses

    9pm, Channel 4
    Llwynhelig House in the Vale of Glamorgan is a Grade II-listed manor with a log cabin and shepherd’s hut in case the house itself isn’t big enough – but can agents Sorcha and Jemma flog it for £2.2m? More than seven times that price will secure Sunningdale Manor in Jersey for one lucky buyer. Down in Flushing in Cornwall, meanwhile, big local noise Ian spots the chance to trouser more commission on a house he has sold twice before. Jack Seale

    Ashley Graham and Emma Grede know how to side hustle. Photograph: UKTV Alibi

    Side Hustlers

    9pm, U&W
    This small business competition from Reese Witherspoon’s production studio continues, and a woman who works a food stall with her ex is the first to pitch her future dreams to potential investor Emma Grede. Then, Ashley Graham is excited to meet the woman behind Bonks emergency thongs (“Yes! Yes! I want panties in a bag!”). HR

    Mary Earps: Queen of Stops

    10.45pm, BBC One
    There might be a tear of pride in your eye while watching one of the best goalkeepers in the world tell her story – from “being in pieces on the kitchen floor” after not making the England squad to a meeting with Sarina Wiegman that would lead to her helping the Lionesses become the 2022 European champions. It hits even harder given that she retired from international football in May. Jill Scott, Alessia Russo and Ella Toone chip in, too. HR

    Film choice

    Heads of State (Ilya Naishuller, 2025), Prime Video

    Gleefully preposterous … Heads of State on Prime Video. Photograph: FlixPix/Alamy

    Strongly in the running for the most gleefully preposterous film of the decade, Heads of State is a movie about the American president and the British prime minister. What’s preposterous is that they are respectively played by John Cena and Idris Elba. Even more preposterously, it’s an action buddy comedy by Ilya Naishuller, the director of Nobody. Did the world need a film where the leaders of the western world are stranded in the middle of nowhere and have to machine-gun their way out in a whirlwind of quips? Absolutely not. But the most preposterous thing of all is that it somehow works. Stuart Heritage

    Live sport

    Football: Uefa Women’s Euro 2025, Switzerland v Norway, 7pm, BBC One The opening match at St Jakob-Park in Basel, Switzerland.

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  • Dalai Lama Tightens Grip on Reins of Succession in the Face of Chinese Pressure – The New York Times

    1. Dalai Lama Tightens Grip on Reins of Succession in the Face of Chinese Pressure  The New York Times
    2. Dalai Lama says he will be reincarnated, Trust will identify successor  Dawn
    3. Dalai Lama: Tibetan spiritual leader announces clear succession plan  BBC
    4. Statement Affirming the Continuation of the Institution of Dalai Lama  The Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama
    5. How will the next Dalai Lama be chosen – and who could it be?  Al Jazeera

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  • Pakistan PM vows to expand water storage amid Indian threat to divert river waters

    Pakistan PM vows to expand water storage amid Indian threat to divert river waters


    PESHAWAR: In a narrow alley of Peshawar’s ancient Qissa Khwani Bazaar, the scent of cardamom lingers in the air, mingling with curls of steam rising from a pair of brass samovars.


    Inside a dimly lit tea shop, surrounded by chipped green and yellow teapots, 68-year-old Fazl Rehman tends to his regulars — and to history.


    Known locally as Qehwa Khana, this modest establishment has been serving green tea, or qehwa, to traders, travelers, and townsfolk for more than a century. Oral tradition suggests the shop is 120 to 130 years old, one of the last remaining tea houses in what was once a vital rest stop for merchants journeying between India and Central Asia.


    “First, my father ran this [tea house],” Rehman said.


    “He died at 120 years of age, then I started working here. Now, I have run this business for 58 years.”



    A man pours tea at a 120-year-old tea house at ancient Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar, Pakistan, on June 28, 2025. (AN photo)


    The Qissa Khwani Bazaar, or the “Storytellers’ Bazaar,” harks back to a time when tea houses like Rehman’s were gathering spots where storytellers would recite fables and news by lamplight to caravans camped for the night behind Peshawar’s once-gated walls.


    As Rehman recalled, in those days trade caravans from India and Afghanistan would reach Peshawar just before the city gates were locked at dusk. They would camp nearby, sip qehwa into the early hours and listen to stories from traveling bards.


    “With the morning prayer, the gates would open and the caravans would move on to Lahore, then Amritsar, and into India,” Rehman said.


    “In the past, this hall would be covered with grass or dry pine needles. We would bring it from our village, Mohmand. We would place the grass or pine needles on the ground for people to sit on.”



    An old picture of Qissa Khwani Bazaar hangs at the Qehwa Khana in Peshawar, Pakistan, on June 28, 2025. (AN photo)


    Today, the storytellers are gone, but Qehwa Khana endures, its appeal now extending far beyond Peshawar.


    Rehman said tourists from countries as distant as Japan, England, Holland, and Indonesia have visited his shop to experience the unique atmosphere and sample its tea, brewed in large kettles using an age-old method.


    “It is prepared through a process,” explained Muhammad Amir, a 55-year-old teamaker.


    “This brass samovar is used to heat water and when the water boils, we fill the teapot… then we place it here [on the stove], boil it further, and add qehwa leaves, sugar, and cardamom. And the qehwa is ready.”


    A regular teapot, typically enough for two cups, costs about Rs50 ($0.18), making it not only a cultural staple, but also one of the most affordable pleasures in the city.



    A picture of a foreign visitor to the Qehwa Khana hangs at the tea house in Peshawar, Pakistan, on June 28, 2025. (AN photo)


    SYMBOL OF HOSPITALITY


    Tea culture holds deep roots in Pakistan, particularly in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where green tea, often sweetened and spiced, is a daily ritual for many. Peshawar’s old city is especially famous for its qehwa culture, where gatherings over tea are woven into the social and political fabric of everyday life.


    Qehwa also remains a symbol of hospitality, often served to guests as a sign of respect, and visitors continue to trickle into Qehwa Khana, some drawn by nostalgia, others by curiosity.


    Said Maluk, a native of Kurram now living in Peshawar, brought a friend recently after shopping at the market.


    “I told him [friend] we would go to the famous Qehwa Khana in Qissa Khwani… we had tea and felt relaxed. Now we will go on our way,” Maluk said.



    Tea pots are stacked at the Qehwa Khana in Peshawar, Pakistan, on June 28, 2025. (AN photo)


    For many, sipping qehwa in the bazaar is about more than refreshment, but a return to simpler times.


    “I have been coming here since childhood,” said Nargas Khan, a 65-year-old resident of the city. “I used to ride a rickshaw and do labor work in the city. After finishing my work, I would come here and drink tea. I would buy sweets from a nearby place and eat them here.”


    “Now, when I come, it reminds me of my childhood and youth. We would place our cap here, coming happily. We have spent a quality life here.”

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  • Train named after Lioness Jess Carter ahead of Women’s Euro 2025

    Train named after Lioness Jess Carter ahead of Women’s Euro 2025

    Aida Fofana

    BBC News, West Midlands

    Getty Images Jess Carter playing for England in a white and navy blue shirt. She looking into the distance while clapping with her pink football boots tucked under her left arm.Getty Images

    Jess Carter has played more than 40 times for England

    West Midlands Railway has unveiled a new train named after a Lioness as England prepares for the Euro 2025 tournament.

    It bears the name Jess Carter in honour of the Warwick-born footballer who has played more than 40 times for England.

    Teachers and pupils from her former secondary school were among the guests at a special ceremony in her honour at Leamington Spa railway station on Tuesday.

    Rachel Cole, teacher at Myton School, said: “Jess was a talented all-round athlete and it has been inspiring to see how her career has progressed since leaving school.”

    She added: “From winning titles to representing her country in the World Cup final, everyone at Myton is incredibly proud of what she has achieved and we’ll be supporting her and the Lionesses all the way this summer.

    “Jess was always a polite, responsible, keen sports person; always putting her hand up to fill in any sort of position on the football pitch,” Ms Cole added.

    West Midlands Railway An orange and purple West Midlands Railway train with the name "Jess Carter" printed on in purple with a mini football in between her name.West Midlands Railway

    The newly-named “Jess Carter” train

    The England defender began her senior career at Birmingham City, signing aged 16, with Carter a member of the triumphant Lioness squad which lifted the Euro 2022 trophy.

    “We are delighted to play our part in naming a train in Jess’s honour and we hope it can help inspire the next generation of Jess Carters to achieve their sporting potential,” Ms Cole said.

    The train is part of the Class 196 fleet which came into service in 2022 on routes to and from Shrewsbury.

    The trains now serve Hereford, Worcester, Nuneaton, Coventry and Leamington Spa.

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  • Sun safety in Guernsey is ‘imperative,’ says charity

    Sun safety in Guernsey is ‘imperative,’ says charity

    Holly-Anne Langlois

    BBC, Guernsey

    BBC Charlotte, 10, Hattie, 9, Tony Tostevin (MUG), Ollie, 10, Juliet Bell (Vale Primary School Sun Safety Ambassador teacher) and Lewis, 9, sat in a shaded woodland area at the school. They are all smiling, wearing sun hats and holding an array of items like suncream, the sun-safe accreditation certificate and waterbotles. BBC

    Charity Male Uprising Guernsey hopes to raise awareness of the importance of prevention of skin cancer

    Sun safety work in Guernsey is “imperative”, according to a charity currently working to raise awareness of early detection and prevention of skin cancer.

    Male Uprising Guernsey (MUG) has sponsored suncream at more than 25 locations across the island, including Vale Primary School and The Big Gig.

    Staff said they were raising awareness after being approached by Public Health and the Health Care Group to run the initiative.

    As well as saying the work was “imperative”, Tony Tostevin, from MUG, said “It’s a major issue that we need to educate the youngsters up through to adults on what they should be looking for and looking out for.”

    Suncream ‘makes a difference’

    Vale Primary School has benefited from MUG’s latest campaign and is also sun safe accredited by the organisation.

    Teacher Juliet Bell, the school’s sun safe ambassador, said the suncream “makes a huge difference.”

    She said: “We always think about sun safety whether we are working outside with the children, or on trips, to make sure there is plenty of shade and everyone has water to drink.

    Pupils Charlotte, 10, and Hattie, 9, smiling wearing school uniform and sun hats. They are holding a sun hat and certificate.

    Pupils Charlotte, 10, and Hattie, 9, have been learning about sun safety

    As part of the accreditation, the school had a sun hat policy, where students without a hat stay in the shade.

    Students are also encouraged to apply suncream before they attend school, and top it up throughout the day.

    Pupil Hattie, 9, said: “When UV levels are three or above, we should wear sunscreen and sun hats.”

    Ollie, 10, and Lewis, 9, smiling wearing uniform and sun hats. They are holding suncream and a sun safety colouring sheet.

    Ollie, 10, and Lewis, 9, applied their suncream before getting to school

    Ollie, 10, said: “Each class at our school has their own [suncream]… and we put them on at lunch and break.”

    Each school follows the States of Guernsey’s Sun Safe Policy, which a spokesperson for the Education Department said was the “bare minimum expectation for all schools”.

    Some schools may have their own policy which compliments and build upon the States’ guidelines.

    For example, La Mare De Carteret Primary School and St Martins are “compulsory hat” schools and have been for some years.

    Jeorgie, 11, (left), Lee Thomas (centre), and Izzy, 11, (right) are stood wearing straw hats. They are smiling stood in from of sun safety posters made by students.

    Jeorgie, 11, (left), Lee Thomas (centre), and Izzy, 11, (right) are the sun safety team at St Sampson’s High School

    Meanwhile, more work was being done at secondary school level to ensure students were taking more sun-safe precautions, the charity said.

    St Sampson’s High School introduced sun safe monitors to dish out free suncream and sun safety advice at break and lunchtimes.

    Lee Thomas, subject lead of personal development at St Sampson’s, said the skin cancer rates in Guernsey were “awful to hear.”

    Mr Thomas said the personal development team across all secondary schools came up with a sun safety initiative “using students to talk to students.”

    “Everyone in school can see where the free suncream is if they need it,” he said.

    Jeorgie, 11, is a sun safety monitor. She said seeing the struggles of someone she knew with cancer inspired her to take on the role.

    The Channel Islands Coop also sponsors suncream for school trips and additional bottles for lessons.

    Rajesh Amin, superintendent pharmacist from the Co op Pharmacy Guernsey, said: “It’s so, so important, especially on this island, to protect the whole community.”

    This story is part of BBC Guernsey’s Sun Safety Campaign.

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  • Stock and Share Market News, Economy and Finance News, Sensex, Nifty, Global Market, NSE, BSE Live IPO News

    Stock and Share Market News, Economy and Finance News, Sensex, Nifty, Global Market, NSE, BSE Live IPO News


    Live: Will Nifty defend 25,400-mark on the day of expiry? | Opening Bell

    Nifty slipped below the 25,500 mark, dragged down by financial stocks, while broader markets witnessed profit-booking. The Nifty Midcap index snapped its seven-day winning streak, and the Nifty Smallcap index extended its losses for the second consecutive session. Among sectors, Nifty Metal emerged as the top gainer, whereas Realty stocks were the biggest laggards. This morning, global cues were mixed. US markets ended overnight on a mixed note with NASDAQ and S&P 500 at record close. Meanwhile, Asia-Pacific markets were mixed as investors digested trade agreement between US and Vietnam, where Vietnam agreed for 20 percent minimum tariffs and US went duty free. Catch Lovisha Darad in conversation with Chandan Taparia, Senior Vice President, Head – Derivatives & Technical Research, Motilal Oswal and Nirav R Karkera Head of Research, Fisdom.

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  • ‘Black Sabbath gave bands like Slipknot the blueprint’

    ‘Black Sabbath gave bands like Slipknot the blueprint’

    Vanessa Pearce

    BBC News, West Midlands

    Getty Images Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne all look towards the cameraGetty Images

    Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne formed Earth, later renamed Black Sabbath, in 1968

    With Black Sabbath’s final concert just days away, metal bands and musicians explain how the band influenced the course of their lives – and paved the way for a new generation of artists.

    “Sabbath gave us the blueprint, Sabbath gave us the recipe. They gave us the cookbook, man,” says Slipknot’s Corey Taylor.

    “The mystique was in the lyrics. It was in the sound. It was in the way that everything was just a little darker.”

    The song that shares the band’s name is “one of the scariest songs I ever heard” says Taylor, which he plays when he “wants to go someplace mentally”.

    “I don’t have to look for, you know, [The Omen’s] Damien Thorn. I don’t have to look for merciful fate.

    “I go back to the beginning. I go back to Black Sabbath, the song and the rest is history.”

    Getty Images A singer wearing an orange jumpsuit and mask with long hair sings into a microphoneGetty Images

    Corey Taylor says Black Sabbath paved the way for bands like Slipknot

    The frontman is among musicians paying tribute to the band ahead of their final performance on Saturday.

    The all-day Back to the Beginning event at Villa Park on Saturday will feature Metallica, Slayer, Halestorm, Lamb Of God, Anthrax and Mastodon among many others.

    Halestorm’s frontwoman Lzzy Hale says she would not be the singer, songwriter or guitarist she is today without the influence of the band.

    “For whatever reason Black Sabbath caught me early on and it was something that I didn’t even know how to describe, but I understood it,” she says.

    Being part of the show “wasn’t even on my bucket list of dreams,” she adds, “because it was an indefatigable dream to even consider because it was impossible.”

    Getty Images A female singer with long hair plays guitar and screams at the audienceGetty Images

    Lzzy Hale says playing the Villa Park gig was not even on her bucket list of dreams

    Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward sold more than 75 million records worldwide.

    Black Sabbath, initially called Earth, emerged from a “vibrant music scene” in 1960s Birmingham according to their first manager Jim Simpson.

    Setting up Big Bear Records in 1968, he had invited the foursome to play at Henry’s Blueshouse at The Crown pub on Hill Street, where they were an instant hit with punters.

    ‘A horrendous racket’

    “There was much more attention paid to them than the average band,” he recalls.

    The four started out playing blues, before turning their attention to writing their own material.

    The band had initially made a “horrendous racket,” adds guitarist Iommi, “but it worked out in the end, it was great.”

    Getty Images Frontman Ozzy Osbourne, wearing platform heels and a jacket with tassels, dances on stageGetty Images

    The four original members will play one last gig together at Villa Park

    They were a “product of the time and a product of the city” says Jez Collins, founder of Birmingham Music Archive.

    “I don’t think it would have happened from any area other than Aston with all of those foundries and factories and the smelts and the bomb sites,” he adds.

    Slipknot’s Taylor agrees.

    “One hundred percent Iowa is the reason why Slipknot was Slipknot and the Midlands are absolutely the reason Sabbath was Sabbath,” he says.

    “You are where you come from.”

    Getty Images Four members of Black Sabbath laughingGetty Images

    The four friends grew up in the Aston area of Birmingham

    The band’s distinctive sound, which helped propel them to worldwide success, was partially down to Iommi’s earlier job at a steel factory.

    Planning to leave work in order to take up a place with another band, he had lost the tips of two fingers on a steel-cutting machine.

    “After the accident I went to various doctors and they said ‘you’d better pack up really, you’re not going to be able to play,’” he says.

    “But I wouldn’t accept that,” he adds, describing how he had fashioned new fingertips from a melted down Fairy Liquid bottle and parts of a leather jacket.

    Start of the magic

    Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford, who grew up a few miles away in Walsall, picks up the legendary story.

    “When Tony had his accident, and had to detune some of the strings, things started to get lower and heavier, and that’s when the magic really started,” he says.

    “And certainly for me and for all of us in Priest, from day one, those bands and more were a tremendous influence to us all.”

    Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple were also forefathers of the movement, but it was Sabbath that “cemented it,” adds Taylor.

    He and other artists have been speaking to BBC Radio WM for a new documentary, Forging Metal, looking at the history of the genre.

    Barney Greenway, lead singer of Napalm Death, also from Birmingham, says the “density and the depth of the music they were making was completely new”.

    “There were bands doing darkly heavy music at the time, but arguably nothing like Black Sabbath.

    “Heaviness and musical extremity before that was even thought of,” he says.

    Getty Images Dark haired guitarist Tony Iommi wearing a black outfit and white boots stands next to lead singer Ozzy Osbourne wearing a white outfit with arms raisedGetty Images

    Guitarist Tony Iommi (left) fashioned his own finger tips from a Fairy Liquid bottle after losing them while working in a steel factory as a teenager

    Getty Images Aerial view of a band playing on stage in front of a huge audienceGetty Images

    Black Sabbath attracted huge audiences worldwide

    The eyes of the world will be on Birmingham for the Villa Park gig which is a “profoundly important centre for metal,” says city academic Dr David Gange, author of the Why Metal Matters project.

    But, he adds, “metal was global from its origins, with indigenous Americans such as [guitarist and songwriter] Link Wray, and others, particularly from Latin America, being crucial to it’s emergence”.

    Crusty, dirty and glorious

    The genre had spawned “literally hundreds of sub genres, probably thousands,” he explains, with some now being used to promote social and environmental activism, in far flung corners of the globe.

    “There’s an absolutely wonderful band in the very, very far north of Finland, called Unearthly Rites, who are as heavy as can be,” he says.

    “They are crusty, they are dirty, they are just glorious, their key thing is protesting open-pit mining, and their musical heritage runs directly back to Birmingham bands like Napalm Death and Bolt Thrower”.

    Dr David Gange A singer holding a microphone wears a t-shirt which says Hunt Saboteurs AssociationDr David Gange

    The musical heritage of global bands can be traced back to Birmingham bands such as Napalm Death, says Dr David Gange

    Many of the “most interesting” artists taking metal forward are currently women or non-binary people, the Birmingham University history lecturer added.

    Birmingham’s Debbie Gough, who fronts metal band Heriot, says the scene is “the most diverse space” she has ever known it to be.

    Heriot has just completed its second headline tour of the UK and are about to embark on a 32-date tour of North America supporting “super influential” Trivium.

    “I feel very welcome and feel like it’s a very accepting space and a very informed space as well which has allowed for lots of different people in bands to experience music,” she says.

    Dr David Gange Female musician Debbie Gough, frontwoman of Heriot, plays a yellow guitarDr David Gange

    Debbie Gough says the metal scene is now an accepting and informed space

    There had been a marked change since the Covid-19 pandemic, she claimed.

    “Before that I could maybe count on one hand the amount of times there had been female crew, or other bands with females on the line-up, and now nobody even flinches, which is super cool.

    “I’m just overjoyed about the blueprint of who gets to be in a metal band has just been completely destroyed and anybody can be in any band now – and that’s really amazing to see,” she added.

    Ziggy Ella Bagley Four female members of all-female band CherrydeadZiggy Ella Bagley

    All-female band Cherrydead will perform at the BBC Radio WM event on 2 July

    Emily Drummond, vocalist for the all-female Birmingham band, Cherrydead says she is also “absolutely buzzing” about the future of metal.

    “Not just in the West Midlands, all across the UK and it’s something that we are so glad to be a part of,” she adds.

    Cherrydead are among acts playing a BBC Radio WM celebration gig Metal in the Midlands.

    She says there had been a “real shift” for women within the scene.

    Although not perfect, she added, “there is a transformation coming and I feel things have really moved in that sense”.

    Mosh pit freedom

    The metal scene faces “all kinds of crises”, Dr Gange says, with many music venues under threat.

    “But metal thrives off crisis, metal is the music for how we process crisis and the bands are doing it in such exciting ways,” he adds.

    “It’s a profoundly supportive community, the mosh pit itself is an allegory for all the best things in life – you give yourself total, total freedom, let yourself fall over, let anything happen with the complete knowledge that someone is going to reach out and pick you up if you go down.”

    BBC Radio WM’s Forging Metal will be available on BBC Sounds from Friday 4 July.

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  • Study finds instant coffee linked to nearly seven times greater risk of vision issues

    Study finds instant coffee linked to nearly seven times greater risk of vision issues

    A cup of coffee and a cappuccino are seen at a Juan Valdez store in Bogota, Colombia June 5, 2019. — Reuters

    Researchers estimate that approximately 200 million people worldwide are affected by age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a condition that impairs central vision and can cause blurriness or other visual disturbances.

    There are two forms of AMD. The more common type is dry AMD, which involves gradual damage to the macula—a region at the back of the retina—as part of the natural aging process. Wet AMD, on the other hand, occurs when abnormal blood vessels grow behind the eye and damage the macula, reported Medical News Today.

    A recent study featured in the journal Food Science & Nutrition suggests that a mix of genetic factors and consuming instant coffee could raise the risk of developing dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

    In this study, researchers gathered coffee consumption data from over 500,000 individuals using the UK Biobank genome-wide association studies (GWAS) summary statistics. Participants were categorised based on their coffee preferences: decaffeinated, ground, or instant coffee.

    Additionally, data on both dry and wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in adults aged 50 and older was sourced from the Finngen GWAS dataset.

    Using the collected data, researchers applied several analytical methods—such as Mendelian randomisation and linkage disequilibrium score regression (LDSC)—to explore potential genetic links.

    By the end of the study, they discovered a genetic overlap between a predisposition for drinking instant coffee and an increased risk of developing dry AMD.

    Moreover, within this genetic connection, they found that consuming instant coffee—as opposed to other types—was associated with a roughly sevenfold higher risk of dry AMD.


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  • Samsung Galaxy A06 4G receives One UI 7 stable update

    Samsung Galaxy A06 4G receives One UI 7 stable update

    Samsung has released the Android 16-based One UI 8 beta for its flagships, but it’s yet to complete the rollout of One UI 7, which is based on Android 15. The Korean brand has been expanding the rollout of stable One UI 7 for its Galaxy devices, and the latest device to receive the One UI 7 stable update is the Samsung Galaxy A06 4G.

    Samsung Galaxy A06

    The One UI 7 stable update for the Galaxy A06 4G comes with firmware version A065FXXU4BYF6 and requires a download of around 3GB. In addition to bringing UI redesign and new features, One UI 7 also brings the dated May 2025 Android security patch to the Samsung Galaxy A06 4G.



    Samsung Galaxy A06 4G

    Samsung Galaxy A06 4G

    The update is seeding in Asian countries, including the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. If you haven’t received it yet, you can check for it manually by navigating to your Galaxy A06 4G’s Settings > Software update menu.

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