Pinewood Studios expansion approved by Buckinghamshire Council

Love Island star Lana Jenkins burst into tears during her final date with boyfriend Ron Hall, as she was overwhelmed with emotion.The villa favourite, 25, who has been on a rocky journey with footballer Ron, also 25, has become known as one of the kindest and most genuine souls in the villa this year. And as make-up artist Lana and Ron poured out their hearts to each other while munching on a breakfast feast decked out and set up in the middle of a river in South Africa, talk turned to family. The couple started talking about being reunited with their families back home in the UK, and what their relatives would think of their new partners.

Millions of people across Great Britain are waiting to find out the qualifying period and payment window for the first part of the £900 means-tested cost of living support, which is due to be made this Spring. There is a possibility that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt may announce more details about the £37 billion cost of living financial package when he delivers his Spring Budget on Wednesday, March 15.

Nordic Networks Team For ITV Studios Drama Deal

K.J. Yossman BBC Studios has backed a new production label, Rebel Rebel Pictures, launched by Simon Shalgosky and Daniel Brookes. Rebel Rebel will focus on unscripted primetime and factual entertainment, aimed at both U.K. and international audiences. Shalgosky and Brookes have both spent decades in television, working across development and production with credits including “Love Island,” “X factor” and “Britain’s Got Talent.” Brookes has previously worked in senior development roles at ITV Studios, SYCO, Expectation Entertainment and MGM Unscripted. Shalgosky was previously head of global development at Seven Studios and has experience at Lion TV, Keshet UK, ITV Studios, and Celador.

BBC Studios has backed a new UK entertainment label helmed by execs Simon Shalgosky and Daniel Brookes.

The friend of a 'kind' and 'generous' 19-year-old who was tragically found dead in Tameside last month has paid heartfelt tribute to him after he has been named locally as Tobias Mannering.

K.J. Yossman Freida Pinto is lending her voice to a new animated film project in honor of International Women’s Day. She Creates Change is a new nonprofit-led animation and live action film project from global education organization Room to Read produced by Nexus Studios. The multi-media initiative, which spans a six-episode film series as well as books and audio stories, aims to promote gender equality through telling the stories of young women across the planet. It will initially be available in English, Hindi and Spanish with plans to translate it into dozens more languages and will be distributed across the world via Room to Read and educational partnerships. The project will also be released to general audiences in October.

An estimated 19.2 million families and 39.8 million individuals across Great Britain currently in receipt of State Pension or benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will see their payments go up by 10.1 per cent next month. However, due to payments made in arrears most people will not see a difference until May.

A quarter (25%) of tradespeople now allow customers to pay for work in instalments, as a way of helping homeowners afford renovations throughout the cost of living crisis. New research by IronmongeryDirect, one of the UK’s largest suppliers of specialist ironmongery, surveyed tradespeople across the nation and found that almost two in five (39%) have been asked about payment plans in recent months.

MultiChoice, NBCUniversal and Sky have set a new partnership to bring content and technology to streaming customers across MultiChoice’s 50-market footprint in sub-Saharan Africa. MultiChoice launched Showmax as the first African streaming service in 2015 and via the deal announced today, the new Showmax group, which will be 70% owned by MultiChoice and 30% by NBCU, will build on Showmax’s success to date and aim to create the leading streaming service in Africa. It will be powered by Peacock’s technology and combine MultiChoice’s accelerating investment in local productions with international content licensed from NBCU and Sky, as well as third party content from HBO, Warner Bros International, Sony and others, and include live English Premier League football. Launch details about the new Showmax service will be announced at a later date.

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island distributor ITV Studios has hired a Disney sales exec on the eve of the London TV Screenings.

Martin Lewis has said that thousands of people in the UK are owed a £6,000 payment after a DWP error. The Money Saving Expert founder issued advice in a special episode of his ITV programme dedicated to all things pensions.

A think-tank has warned many people on benefits will be financially worse off until 2025 due to a failure in payments keeping up with inflation. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the annual uprating of benefits in April will “merely take them back to around the real level they were at a year earlier”.

Cruz Beckham is celebrating being of the legal drinking age in the United Kingdom. The youngest son of Victoria and David Beckham celebrated his 18th birthday with his older brother, Romeo Beckham, and his dad.«Feels good to be 18,» Cruz captioned a shot of himself drinking a pint of beer as Romeo pops into the frame and David holds up his own pint.The Beckham boys are surrounded by silver balloons for Cruz's milestone birthday.

Naman Ramachandran Shout! Studios has acquired U.S. and Canada rights to Studiocanal and Working Title’s cross-cultural British romantic comedy “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” with a view to releasing it in late spring, it was revealed at Berlin’s European Film Market on Tuesday. Directed by veteran Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (“Elizabeth”), “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” follows documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (Lily James), for whom swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath’s (Emma Thompson) dismay. For Zoe’s childhood friend and neighbor Kaz (Shazad Latif), the answer is to follow his parents’ example and opt for an arranged (or “assisted”) marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan (Sajal Aly). As Zoe films Kaz’s journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger, chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love.

The UK Government has confirmed that the £400 Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding (EBSS AF) is currently in its pilot phase and is accepting live applications in some pilot local authority areas ahead of a nationwide rollout next week. Energy and Climate Minister Graham Stuart MP said this is helping to “refine the end-to-end user journey before full scheme launch”.

EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s biggest film studios are preparing for crunch talks with a government agency amid fears that a so-called “studio tax” could “torpedo” the UK’s booming production industry.

This Moning viewers wasted no time in pointing out a problem with the latest episode after it was revealed that American superstar Pink would be making a special appearance in the studio. Josie Gibson and Dermot O'Leary appeared thrilled as they told viewers the singer would be live on the ITV daytime show on Tuesday (February 14).

An SNP MP has called for action after a Glasgow resident was forced to move out his home due to a pre-payment meter error which more than doubled his energy costs. Glasgow Central MP Alison Thewliss asked the UK Government to help her constituent Justin Valmassoi who had been "ignored and let down" by his energy provider Utilita.

An estimated 19.2 million families and 39.8 million individuals across Great Britain currently in receipt of State Pension or benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will see their payments go up by 10.1 per cent later this year.