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  • Tom Grennan and Courteeners back Coventry brain tumour campaign

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/690d/live/114d9cb0-513d-11f1-9c8f-0feb9c43091f.png”] PA Media Tom Grennan has donated four VIP tickets to be raffled for the brain tumour charity campaign Singer Tom Grennan and Manchester indie band Courteeners have donated VIP tickets for summer shows in support of a brain tumour charity, in memory of a Coventry father. Dad-of-one Adam “Keano” Keane died in…

  • Hull artist Stewart Taylor celebrates 60 years of painting

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9eb2/live/ce561e30-51ca-11f1-89a3-d1f559421220.jpg”] BBC Stewart Taylor was born near the Humber and the River Hull An artist from Hull whose work focuses on his home city and the wider Humber area has pledged to “just carry on painting” as he celebrates 60 years of creativity. Stewart Taylor turned 80 last month and to mark the…

  • SNL: Saturday Night Live UK met a sceptical crowd – but has it won them over?

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6c00/live/35ad1900-5048-11f1-a712-bdb9a88fa140.jpg”] Sky UK One critic said that George Fouracres’ impression of Keir Starmer “is everything I needed it to be” Ahead of the first episode of Saturday Night Live UK, we asked whether the show could make us laugh. Many were sceptical about whether the 50-year-old US sketch-comedy variety show would translate for…

  • NFL: Aaron Rodgers signs new one-year deal with Pittsburgh Steelers

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/05c9/live/fc53fd50-51d6-11f1-8d79-4731acfb89e0.jpg”] Rodgers, 42, signs new one-year Steelers contract Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Aaron Rodgers is fourth on the all-time list for touchdown passes and fifth for passing yards ByBen Collins BBC Sport journalist Published 17 May 2026 Updated 18 May 2026 Veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers has signed a new one-year contract with…

  • Personal decision for Keir Starmer on whether to fight leadership contest, minister says

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/4840/live/a983c310-51d3-11f1-88a8-f9e787ff27f2.jpg”] PA Media It is a “personal decision” for Sir Keir Starmer whether he chooses to fight any potential leadership contest, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said. She told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that Sir Keir had “shown before that he’s up for a fight” and “I wouldn’t write off the…

  • Brighton band Levellers expecting ‘moving’ homecoming concert in Hove

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/d63f/live/e0b99230-4f97-11f1-8abc-0bb8b3182ff0.jpg”] Getty Images Levellers lead vocalist Mark Chadwick said performing in Hove felt like a full-circle moment Members of folk-rock band Levellers have said they expect a homecoming gig in East Sussex to be “quite a moving experience”. The group – made up of Mark Chadwick, Jeremy Cunningham, Charlie Heather, Jon Sevink, Simon…

  • ‘We need working-class voices to enrich culture’

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/fb4c/live/891a0620-2843-11f1-ac61-c943803d2ed3.jpg”] BBC Kate Pasola’s anthology Bread Alone showcases working-class writers A journalist has published a book about the difficulties working-class writers face, after she was pushed out of the industry herself over costs. Kate Pasola, from Prudhoe, Northumberland, said she was all too familiar with writing’s “class ceiling”, having believed hard work and…

  • Bringing award-winning show back home is ‘magic’ – writer

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/437d/live/9d552470-504e-11f1-a712-bdb9a88fa140.jpg”] BBC The Boy at the Back of the Class was Nick Ahad’s first theatre show The writer of an Olivier-award winning show about a Syrian child refugee has said he is “so excited” to bring it to the Alhambra theatre in his home city of Bradford. His adaptation of the novel The…

  • Dublin: Woman in her 20s dies after being hit by car

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/b5c5/live/bae07110-51f3-11f1-86f6-35d8fdccc492.jpg”] RTÉ A pedestrian was struck by a car on the N11 Bray Road, Loughlinstown A woman in her 20s has died after being hit by a car in Dublin on Saturday night. Gardaí (Irish police) said they responded at about 23:50 local time after a pedestrian was struck by a car on…

  • ‘Joy in a joyless situation’: How I deal with the loss of two grown-up children

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/42af/live/2ad23990-4f7e-11f1-9bf8-a147799c023a.jpg”] Colin Hattersley Heidi Hunt finds “total mindfulness” in making her jewellery Where others might see only the colourful glass beads she makes, Heidi Hunt sees hope. Along with her husband Phil, she has endured the heartache of the deaths of two of the four children they share between them. In between times,…