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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f8e7/live/d1af1d60-d9f7-11f1-84c1-dbcae60402d7.jpg”] Press Association Monty Done! Monty and his dog, Ned, have been a fixture on the show TV horticulturalist Monty Don thanked viewers and his furry friend Ned the dog while presenting his final episode of Gardeners’ World, after more than two decades on air. The head gardener on the long-running BBC TV…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/45a7/live/00f276d0-d9ee-11f1-bbe5-797ee05bee69.jpg”] Bake Master Battles Two bakers have won an international TV show with their cakes Two baker friends who started making cakes in their home kitchen have now won an international TV competition. Dusica Roberts, from Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, and Verity Malinowska from Plymouth, took part in the TV series Bake Master Battles,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/aaaa/live/ff712380-d928-11f1-af74-e735e628ea98.jpg”] Woolfie Woolf Skepta released The Fork and Knife on Friday, his first album since 2019’s Ignorance Is Bliss One of the biggest names in grime is back – and he’s picked his moment. “Finally,” Skepta promises BBC Newsbeat, “some good rap music, some good UK grime sounds.” The Fork and Knife has…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1489/live/c9303e00-d9eb-11f1-bbe5-797ee05bee69.jpg”] Vinod Kapri/Pyre Pyre’s protagonists are Bubu and Aama – local terms for grandfather and grandmother A film about the tender love and quiet loneliness of an elderly couple, which took two years to reach cinemas after it was completed, is wowing critics and audiences across India. The 111-minute Pyre, directed by television…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/045a/live/c771c820-d9ca-11f1-93e1-3b657b665bcf.jpg”] Cameron Brisbane Vagrant Real Estate – Nick Cronin – won £20,000 Aberdeen DJ and hip-hop producer Vagrant Real Estate has won the 2026 Scottish Album of the Year award. A moniker for Nick Cronin, Vagrant Real Estate triumphed with “Neither Collar Nor Crown”. He scooped the £20,000 first prize after emerging from…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/9cad/live/1c6236a0-d947-11f1-b2ee-87d22b17ac74.png”] BBC The Scillonian III is getting a special send-off A ferry which has taken more than 5.3 million passengers between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly is being given a special send-off as it retires from service. The Scillonian III started carrying passengers in 1977 and is making its last voyage on…