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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/565c/live/3609d1a0-a38f-11f1-8dd3-ff568f69d772.jpg”] Victorious/Tom Langford Thousands of music-lovers have descended on Southsea Common for the three-day festival Victorious Festival is under way on Southsea Common in Portsmouth. Festival-goers enjoyed the blue skies and sunshine on Friday as The Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft topped the bill. The Black Keys headline on Saturday with Club Foot rockers…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a496/live/abf8b1c0-a203-11f1-ac57-b5f31f9074ef.png”] Guernsey Nature Commission The European eel is listed as a critically endangered species Islanders have been asked to record sightings of eels in a bid to help build a greater understanding of the fish. Guernsey Nature Commission said there had been a 95% decline in the European eel population since the 1980s…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/e283/live/cf42fda0-a3b8-11f1-b13c-0d78069132fa.jpg”] Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson reports from Kyiv after the deadly strike Thirty-seven people have died and almost 400 have been evacuated after a Russian drone strike hit a depot storing weapons for Ukraine’s military near a residential area on the outskirts of Kyiv. The strike caused shells, mines and drones to detonate…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6839/live/7bc79440-a37e-11f1-96da-5ddb1ec3bf5c.jpg”] Trimbos Institute “Do not use this pill under any circumstance,” the institute warned A Dutch drug addiction and mental health institute has issued a “red alert” to users about potentially lethal ecstasy pills which resemble US President Donald Trump. The Utrecht-based Trimbos Institute said several of the pills had been handed in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/971a/live/209b4540-a3b9-11f1-aed2-8d6da8d75094.jpg”] Watch: Then-press secretary Karoline Leavitt reacts to the investigation into Perez in July A former White House teleprompter operator has been ordered to pay more than $172,000 (£127,000) for using inside information to beton Donald Trump’s speeches. Gabriel Perez was found to have made trades concerning what the US president would say…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9ec8/live/5cdf5720-a383-11f1-b109-879e35c24276.png”] What we know about the incident at the Big Church Festival Organisers of a Christian festival say they are “devastated” after a man died and six other people were injured by a falling sign. Sussex Police said it had been called to the Big Church Festival at Wiston Park, near Steyning in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/b102/live/22a17990-a2c9-11f1-941c-8741c1a72471.jpg”] BBC Courteeners frontman Liam Fray revisits The Briton’s Protection Pub in Manchester where he first performed more than 20 years ago The street outside legendary indie club 42s, a front garden on Burnage Lane and a pub’s function room with a tiny stage – all locations in Manchester where you could have…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2ca2/live/6a46ecc0-9b09-11f1-bb80-c1b1e1adeea5.png”] Sam Divine Nightclub XOYO Birmingham is one of the venues which could be affected by the plans For fans of music and arts in Birmingham, Digbeth is area which inspires a lot of positive feelings as the graffiti-covered old industrial heartland that is home to the city’s main music, nightclub and art…