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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f278/live/cd3ece20-53b4-11f1-9ab7-fd5200863269.png”] Birmingham City Council Tony Iommi received the award from lord mayor Zafar Iqbal on Tuesday Black Sabbath guitarist and celebrated Brummie, Tony Iommi, has been given an award by Birmingham’s Lord Mayor for his work as a world-renowned musician, writer, and producer. The annual honours go to people or groups for their…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/bf20/live/b2b4ccc0-5392-11f1-a6d5-ff84d685a95b.jpg”] Ashfika Rehman Organisers said the exhibition spotlights a new generation of artists whose work reflected on “shared histories across South Asia and beyond” A major exhibition of contemporary South Asian art has been credited with helping attract new audiences to a West Yorkshire art gallery. The work of artists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/351e/live/cd4c8460-53a1-11f1-962f-7dc94fa2f5d0.jpg”] Getty Images Communist Manifesto co-author Karl Marx is among the prominent figures buried at the cemetery Efforts to protect north London’s historic Highgate Cemetery from the effects of climate change have received a £6.7m boost from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, which owns and manages the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/aec5/live/f07f9520-539d-11f1-b682-cf91850925ea.jpg”] A moped is ridden through a shop on a Grimsby estate as residents call for end to anti-social behaviour It is the middle of the day and as shoppers buy their groceries a man rides a moped inside a Lincolnshire Co-op store. As he emerges through the doorway into the precinct outside,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/35a8/live/b3477d90-5397-11f1-a6d5-ff84d685a95b.jpg”] Gracie Hall Mel Raeburn’s cover of Sonnet, from Richard Ashcroft, featured in the John Lewis Christmas advert in 2024 A singer-songwriter who featured in a John Lewis Christmas advert has said her life had been “crazy” since she was thrown into the spotlight. Mel Raeburn won a competition in 2024 to have…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/7b3b/live/eaf61620-505e-11f1-8b8c-6d33e1d5abb6.jpg”] SAM READ/BBC A fire at the Newton Leys recycling facility in Bletchley is thought to have been started by a battery When a waste recycling facility in Buckinghamshire caught fire last March, it was immediately clear there would be an impact. Six crews fought the fire at Bletchley, Milton Keynes, which ruined…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/d6d8/live/cef5a110-5410-11f1-89a3-d1f559421220.jpg”] Getty Images Sarah Ferguson with close friend and business partner Manuel Fernandez Sarah Ferguson’s close friend and business partner, Manuel Fernandez, used his Palace links to threaten a worker with jail, according to a recording obtained by the BBC. The worker at Fernandez’s failed lifestyle app vVoosh was told that police would…