10 reasons every person should check if they are due financial help from DWP this weekend

Scots across the country who receive a bank holiday will no doubt want to make the most of their day off, but chilly weather might get in the way.

Things are hotting up in the race for this week's Official Number 1 album, as Everything But The Girl edge ahead of Enter Shikari in today's update.

A chief economist has said British households and businesses 'need to accept' they are poorer amid the cost-of-living crisis.

Tom Clare has revealed what his "worst kept secret" was while he was in the Love Island villa as he teased an upcoming clothing collection launch with eBay. Footballer Tom, 23, was snapped up by eBay to become their latest pre-loved ambassador following his time on the show, as he followed in the footsteps of Tasha Ghouri - who bagged herself the fashion deal last year.

Peermusic and the UK company that controls music created by the late Malcolm McLaren have sued Sony Music Publishing in a dispute over an interpolation in Lizzo track ‘About Damn Time’.In its chorus, Lizzo’s 2022 hit interpolates an element of ‘Hey! DJ’, a 1984 release by The World’s Famous Supreme Team, which was co-written by McLaren. The copyright in that song was split between McLaren, producer Stephen Hague, and the two members of The World’s Famous Supreme Team, Larry Price and Ronald Larkins.According to a new lawsuit filed with the New York courts, reps for Lizzo approached Peermusic – which administrates McLaren’s catalogue – to clear his share of the copyright in relation to the interpolation.

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are riding high and nursing hangovers after celebrating a made-for-Hollywood win by the Wrexham Football Club, of which they serve as co-owners. On Saturday, Wrexham secured its promotion back to the English Football League after a 15-year absence. Reynolds and McElhenney, who took control of the Welsch team in 2021, each shared a video of the emotionally-charged moment on their Instagram pages. «I don't remember this moment at all.

Love Island 2023 stars Samie Elishi and Tom Clare have reportedly split up after deciding their romance wasn't "going anywhere". Samie, 22, and Tom, 23, came in third place on the 2023 winter series of the ITV2 show and soon made their relationship official after jetting home from South Africa. While the couple appeared to be enjoying their time together back in the UK, it's now been reported that they've called it quits, just over one month after the Love Island final.

Fresh from her ratings triumph in the third and final series of Happy Valley, its star Sarah Lancashire is teaming up with Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to bring the story of William Shakespeare’s First Folio to screen.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Luca Guadagnino will next direct the William S. Burroughs adaptation “Queer” with Daniel Craig playing the renowned counterculture author’s alter ego, an outcast American expat who lives in Mexico, and “Outer Banks” star Drew Starkey starring as a younger man with whom he becomes madly infatuated. “Queer” will also topline Lesley Manville (“The Crown”), frequent Wes Anderson collaborator Jason Schwartzman; and Henry Zaga (“The New Mutants”), according to inside sources. The boldly ambitious indie film is set to start shooting this month at Rome’s refurbished Cinecittà Studios where the Mexico City-set movie will be filmed in its entirety.

The Duchess of York isn’t quite royal enough.

GB News host was speaking to royal biographer Tom Bower on the King's attempt to smooth over the relationship with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. With the Coronation taking place next month, the monarch has decided to include a family portrait which features Harry and Meghan in the official Buckingham Palace souvenir programme. The photograph, which was taken back in 2018, shows Queen Camilla, Prince William, Kate Middleton and their three children all laughing together in the gardens of Clarence House.

Millions of households are set to receive a £301 cost of living payment from next week as part of the UK Government’s £900 support package for those on means-tested benefits. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will make payments to some 7.2million households across Great Britain, including 686,000 in Scotland, between April 25 and May 17, 2023.

King Charles is proud of his boys.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International When former HBO executive Kary Antholis convinced veteran British producer Jane Featherstone to board a project about the Chernobyl disaster, the prospect of such an undertaking was far from a “slam dunk.”  “It had to be pushed over the line,” says Featherstone, “and that was with everybody supporting it.” But in the end, the historical drama from “The Last of Us” showrunner Craig Mazin was, as the producer puts it, a “lucky, lucky call” — and one that richly paid off.  The 2019 HBO and Sky miniseries about the 1986 nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine starring Jared Harris and Emily Watson won multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Awards, and put Featherstone’s new venture, Sister Pictures, on the map. 

The BBC has movedproduction of Silent Witness, one of its most popular long-running dramas, from London to the West Midlands.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” trailer nearly broke the internet when its official trailer dropped at the start of April, which might’ve come as a shock to the Oscar-nominated actor considering there was a time when she thought no Hollywood studio would touch the satirical comedy. In a recent interview with BAFTA (via IndieWire), Robbie revealed that her first reaction to reading Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s “Barbie” screenplay was disbelief over the movie being made. “The first time I read the ‘Barbie’ script, my reaction was, ‘Ah! This is so good. What a shame it will never see the light of day because they are never going to let us make this movie,’” Robbie said. “But they did.”

There has been an outpouring of grief by British comedians for Gareth Richards, the popular stand-up comic and broadcaster who has died aged 41 from injuries sustained in a car accident last month. 

Brits across the country face a wave of price increases this weekend as we enter the new tax year.

Households are facing an onslaught of price hikes that could leave the average family hundreds of pounds a year worse off. From April 1, millions of people will face increases to their Council Tax, broadband, mobile and water bills.

Around 1.7million workers are set to receive a “significant” pay boost when the National Minimum Wage (NLW) increases from Saturday, April 1. The Resolution Foundation said that the 92pence rise to £10.42 an hour for workers aged 23 and over is equivalent to a near 10 per cent increase.