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  • Bowes Museum’s new art display pays ‘homage’ to French founder

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/8686/live/9f993480-b9ab-11f1-8a1a-0176f978c211.jpg”] BBC The Bowes Museum was built in the 1870s by a local landowner and his Parisian wife A County Durham museum is paying “homage” to its French founder’s routes by bringing in works she would have approved of for its newest exhibition. The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle has linked up with…

  • Our Friends in the North play still relevant – Peter Flannery

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/d43e/live/44c5c260-b80e-11f1-b205-219f899eccc7.jpg”] Newcastle Theatre Royal A new set of local actors have been cast in a theatre production of Our Friends in the North The writer of acclaimed 1990s BBC TV drama Our Friends in the North has said a new stage version will resonate with modern audiences, even if he had once thought…

  • Moby Dick: When Hollywood came to Fishguard 70 years ago

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/8555/live/555b9ee0-b676-11f1-b711-df5e4d50c2fd.png”] Getty Images Gregory Peck starred as Captain Ahab in the production filmed partly in Fishguard It is the seaside town that was transformed in to Dylan Thomas’s Llareggub in 1971, but Fishguard was also the backdrop for another iconic film. Director John Huston chose the Pembrokeshire town as one of Moby Dick’s…

  • Before BTS and Blackpink, there was Big Bang: Now the ‘Kings of K-pop’ are back

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/3d92/live/d59735e0-b8ee-11f1-a698-ff5dd8cb1a06.jpg”] Timothy Norris/Getty Images Taeyang, G-Dragon and Daesung of BigBang perform during the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival A sea of glowing yellow crowns. Thousands of voices chanting in Korean. An explosive surge of energy as the opening synth riffs of Fantastic Baby shatter the stadium air. Big Bang is back.…

  • Two mass shootings in South Africa leave 28 dead

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ccd0/live/83714c70-ba4b-11f1-952f-c5888b744c34.jpg”] Getty Images Gunmen torched vehicles as they fled the scene of a mass shooting at bar near Johannesburg Twenty-eight people have been killed in two mass shootings hours apart in South Africa, the latest gun violence to hit the country. Eighteen people were killed when eight gunmen stormed a bar close to…

  • Bolton make-up artist condemns the ugly side of social media

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/201d/live/f60f5220-b836-11f1-b4bc-39c67eb36497.png”] Mitchell Halliday/Made By Mitchell Mitchell Halliday is a 28-year-old beauty brand founder from Bolton A make-up artist and beauty brand founder has condemned “cruel” online trolls who flooded his social media accounts after he came up with a red carpet look for reality star Katie Price. Mitchell Halliday, who created the make-up…

  • Burnham-on-Sea church marks 200 years of historic angel statues

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6155/live/a0924960-b81d-11f1-b19f-05e2dfdadad2.jpg”] St Andrew’s Church The angels originally formed part of an altar piece in Whitehall Palace A Somerset church is celebrating 200 years since a group of angel statues with links to kings, queens, Sir Christopher Wren and Westminster Abbey, arrived in the county. St Andrew’s Church in Burnham-on-Sea, has been marking the…

  • Cheltenham artist explores ‘beautiful mess’ of motherhood

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2af4/live/0089a9a0-b812-11f1-9172-17f860da9de7.jpg”] Emma Howell Emma Howell’s exhibition Day after Day explores the challenges of motherhood An artist who spent years trying to have a baby through IVF has created an exhibition exploring motherhood. Emma Howell, 34, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, gave birth to her daughter in February 2025 after what she described as a “gruelling”…

  • ‘I turned heartbreak into starting an amazing travel club’

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/251b/live/ea665780-b8d0-11f1-ad1f-538855f30ba1.jpg”] Emma Hickman Emma Hickman started the travel firm after feeling isolated following her split from her boyfriend A woman from Kenilworth who started a travel firm giving solo travellers the chance to travel with others says it has now grown to have 15,000 members across the UK. Emma Hickman, 47, started the…

  • Why families are being urged to look closer on autumn walks

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2a1c/live/6667ee90-b839-11f1-b4bc-39c67eb36497.png”] James Benwell James Benwell says searching for fungi can turn an ordinary family walk into an outdoor adventure From fairytale toadstools to fungi that look like birds’ nests, experts say some of Britain’s most unusual mushrooms are beginning to emerge as autumn arrives. Hidden in parks, woodlands and nature reserves, species ranging…