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Paul Weller has been announced as the final headline act for a series of concerts at Ludlow Castle this summer. The former Jam frontman is due to perform there on 17 July. The other seven headliners announced for this year are Rick Astley, Human League, Tom Grennan, The Streets, Richard Ashcroft, Scissor Sisters and Snow…

With her instantly recognisable gravelly-voice and big, blonde hair, Gaynor Hopkins became an international sensation as Bonnie Tyler with her 80s hit, Total Eclipse of the Heart. 43 years on, and the song has cemented its place as one of the most famous power ballads of all time by surpassing a billion streams on Spotify.…

The makers of The Traitors are creating a stage version, in the hope that the TV show’s dramatic twists and huge popularity will translate into a theatre hit. The play will tell a new story inspired by the programme’s format, in which a group of faithfuls try to root out the traitors in their ranks,…

An eight-year-old boy who has visited the ends of the earth with his parents has described his experiences as “unforgettable”. Yuam, from Hedge End in Hampshire, has travelled to the world’s polar regions, first crossing the Arctic Circle aged five. He is also believed to be one of the youngest British people to have visited…

A show of oil paintings made to look like glitches similar to those on TV and social media will be held in Coventry in February. The display features more than 40 paintings by Birmingham-born Paul Lemmon at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, which he said “interrogate” the relationships people have with the online world.…

The director of a musical about a clash between a group of fascists and people living in a largely Jewish part of east London says more young people should be taught about this turbulent episode. Adam Lenson is the director of Cable Street, a play that explores the fight between Oswald Mosley’s British Union of…

At a time when increasing debates on cultural identity shape how communities see one another, the musicians of Macalla are quietly carving out a different kind of narrative. The eight-piece ensemble connects musicians from Londonderry’s North West Folk Collective with artists from Iraq’s Mshakht Collective. Their cross-cultural collaboration has been three years in the making…

Hyrox is a fitness craze that shows no signs of dying out – with 1.3m people expected to compete in an event somewhere in the world this year. The competition, which is split between running and fitness exercises, has proven particularly popular with young millennials and Generation Z – people in their twenties to early…

The UK is set to back a vast new fleet of offshore wind projects in the North Sea alongside nine other European countries including Norway, Germany and the Netherlands. The government says the deal will strengthen energy security by offering an escape from what it calls the “fossil fuel rollercoaster”. For the first time, some…

Bayern Munich sporting director Max Eberl says the German club are in talks with Harry Kane about extending the striker’s contract. The 32-year-old England captain joined on a four-year deal from Tottenham in August 2023 in a move worth an initial 100m euros (£86.4m). Kane has since scored 119 goals and registered 30 assists in…