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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Chris Keyser, a tuxedoed 23-year-old, stood at a lectern at the Oxford Union to defend the moral superiority of the United States over the Soviet Union. It was 1984. Keyser, now a leader of the Writers Guild of America strike, was then a Harvard Law student.

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Two railway stations in central Manchester have been named as among the worst in the whole of the UK for train delays. Manchester Victoria came in as second worst and Manchester Oxford Road was joint third.

Eighties singer Carol Decker has confirmed she is doing well as she shared a health update with her concerned fans on Friday after undergoing major surgery.The lead vocalist for band T'Pau, 65, revealed on 1 September that she is now 'in recovery', after taking a selfie in hospital showing herself smiling and doing a peace sign with her fingers.The China In Your Hand singer endured a three-hour long operation on her colon earlier this week after finding "something nasty growing up there". But the icon appeared to be in good spirits as she shared the positive news online and revealed that it was 'benign.' Looking thrilled with the 'all clear' news, Carol took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to update her fans and shared an insight into her recovery journey.

Top crime writer Val McDermid says she wishes she'd made the main character in her books a whisky drinker.

This academic year has marked yet another milestone for Bridgewater School in Worsley, with an impressive third of all GCSE grades attained at the highest level, and a perfect 100 per cent pass rate at A Level.

86TV‘s Felix White has recalled the time when he chased Noel Gallagher out of an HMV store when he was a teenager.Appearing as a guest on Radio X’s The Evening Show, hosted by Dan O’Connell, The former Maccabees guitarist shared his experience on meeting the Oasis brothers back in the day. “I was completely obsessed with Oasis,” he told the presenter.White went on to explain his perfect encounter with Liam Gallagher and how he met him at age 16 while on his way to see Oasis support Neil Young in Paris during the ‘Heathen Chemistry‘ Oasis era.“Liam was on the Eurostar and I had a disposable camera and I very very very nervously asked for a disposable photo, which he said yes to and did the perfect B-boy stance next to me in a photo as I’m going bright red,” he said.

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Amanda Knox is expanding her family! The 36-year-old criminal justice activist revealed she's pregnant in a new photo on social media, showing off a full baby bump with a funny caption. This will be Knox's second child with husband Christopher Robinson. The couple, who wed in 2020, welcomed their daughter, Eureka Muse Knox-Robinson, in August 2021.

Gabrielle will lead the line-up for this year’s Battersea Park In Concert series.The singer will close the three day event which kicks off this Saturday (August 26) and wraps up on Monday (August 26) at the London park.Also on the bill that day are MOBO award winning saxophonist Yolanda Brown and The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars.

This Morning star Alison Hammond has revealed that she will be joining the Loose Women panel for their upcoming tour - in a place very close to her heart. Alison has been a regular on the ITV daytime show This Morning for many years but has taken over hosting duties from Phillip Schofield following his exit. She will now present alongside fellow ITV stalwart presenter Dermot O'Leary on Friday mornings while Holly Willoughby will keep her spot on the sofa for the rest of the week, sharing duties with Josie Gibson and Craig Doyle.

If art is creativity plus proficiency plus chance, Fievel Is Glauque are exemplars of its purist form. During their trans-Atlantic “writing trips,” generally held when multi-instrumentalist Zach Phillips and singer Ma Clement visit each other in Brooklyn and Brussels, respectively, they take a spontaneous yet controlled approach, starting and finishing a song each day, with Phillips constructing intricate arrangements to Clement’s angular melodies, one bar at a time.

Police have released a picture of a person they are looking to speak with after an alleged 'racially-motivated hate crime' at a train station.

A major road in Manchester city centre has been sealed off by police this afternoon following a serious crash.

American-born conductor and composer Carl Davis, who had lived in the UK since 1961, has died in Oxford aged 86.

Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood have announced a new London art exhibition.The show, which is titled ‘The Crow Flies Part One’, is due to run at the Tin Man Art gallery at Cromwell Place in South Kensington between September 6-10.It’ll feature a series of new paintings that long-term friends and collaborators Yorke and Donwood created together over the past two years.Per a description, the works began as cover artwork for ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’, the 2022 debut album from Yorke’s side-project The Smile, whose line-up is completed by Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet‘s Tom Skinner.“The wider series will be presented alongside a Flemish woven tapestry commissioned by the artists in London to celebrate the album’s one-year anniversary,” the official listing reads.“This exhibition marks a significant moment in a 30-year artistic partnership for Yorke and Donwood, who worked on it together in Oxford and Brighton between 2021 and 2023. It takes its name from Ted Hughes’ poem Crow (1966-69), from which the band name The Smile is also derived, and draws inspiration from the Bodleian Libraries’ collection of Islamic pirate maps and 1960s US military topographic charts.“The works comprise a mixture of gouache, tempera and powdered mushroom on canvas and feature an extensive language of signs and symbols developed by the artists and codified via supporting imagery.”Tickets for the exhibition are available free of charge – you can book yours here.Donwood has created the art for all of Radiohead’s albums and promotional materials since 1994, as well as all of Yorke’s solo records.

Three men have been charged following a number of 'high-value burglaries' in Manchester city centre.

Miles Kane has announced details of a UK headline tour for 2024 behind his new album – see dates below and buy tickets here.The singer will release new album ‘One Man Band’ on August 4, and head out on a short run of acoustic dates to mark the release.Early next year, he will then kick off a full UK tour at Leeds’ O2 Academy on January 25, with the tour then running until early February where it ends with a London gig at Electric Ballroom on February 9.See the full list of dates below. Tickets go on sale on August 2 at 10am BST and you can buy yours here.JANUARY 202425 – Leeds, O2 Academy26 – Bristol, O2 Academy27 – Birmingham, O2 Institute29 – Oxford, O2 Academy30 – Nottingham, Rock City‌FEBRUARY 20241 – Glasgow, SWG3 Galvanizers2 – Newcastle, NX3 – Manchester, O2 Ritz5 – Cambridge, Junction6 – Southampton, Engine Rooms8 – Brighton, Concorde 29 – London, Electric BallroomSpeaking to NME‘s Liberty Dunworth in April, Kane said his upcoming album captures the energy and essence of his earlier work: “There was a conscious effort that I wanted to make it super upbeat.

Two Tameside MPs have described the looming closure of three leisure centres – including Ashton’s swimming pool – as ‘disappointing’ but say there is ‘no other option’.

A ticket office will remain open at Manchester Victoria railway station, but Manchester Piccadilly's has been earmarked to shut under controversial mass closure plans across England announced today.

Haircut 100 have announced their first UK and Ireland tour in 40 years. Check out a full list of tour dates below.The band will embark on a 15-date tour run starting in Dublin at Vicar St.

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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Egyptian producer, director and mentor Marianne Khoury has been appointed artistic director of the El Gouna Film Festival in a clear sign that the prominent Arab event is aiming to make an ambitious comeback for its sixth edition following a one year hiatus.  The fest, launched in 2017 by Egyptian telecom billionaire Naguib Sawiris – whose brother Samih built the El Gouna resort in a swathe of Egypt’s desert near Hurghada, a tourist town 250 miles south of Cairo – was cancelled in 2022 after being held successfully for five years. Khoury will replace Amir Ramses who stepped down as El Gouna’s artistic director at the end of its fifth edition before the event took a one year pause. Ramses subsequently took the reins as artistic director of the Cairo Film Festival, which is Egypt’s oldest and preeminent film event.

Musk said temporary suspensions will be the minimum penalty, leaving the door open for greater punitive measures.Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions. The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform.The responses to Musk’s stance on the “cis” and “cisgender” labels have been mixed.“If that’s a slur why don’t you ban the use of the N word on here and make it fair for everyone and just eliminate all slurs,” one user asked.

tweeted Tuesday evening.Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions. The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023READ MORE: Conversion Therapy Tied to Suicide Attempts by Transgender People, Massive New Study ShowsBut “cisgender” and “cis” isn’t a slur—it’s merely the opposite of “trans.” “Cis-” is a standard latin prefix, meaning “on this side of.” It’s particularly common in geography, where it just means the same side as the speaker.

Kylie Minogue would jump at the chance to collaborate with Madonna. The Princess of Pop, 55, and The Queen of Pop, 64, are yet to duet together, but the 'I Should Be So Lucky' hitmaker says she is open to the idea and joked that they would have to give plenty of "warning" about the two icons being in the same building together. Speaking to New York's 1035KTU radio station, Kylie said of collaborating with Madonna: “I would.

Slowthai has pleaded not guilty after being accused of two accounts of rape.The musician appeared in court earlier today (June 15) to enter his plea, ahead of a trial scheduled for next year.The allegations were first reported last month, when the Mercury-nominated rapper – real name Tyron Frampton – was charged with two accounts of raping a woman in September 2021.Here, he appeared before Oxfordshire Magistrates Court – the city where the alleged crimes took place – and was charged with both oral and vaginal penetration of a woman without her consent.Now, Slowthai has appeared in the Oxford court once again and pleaded not guilty to both charges raised against him (via Pitchfork).He also appeared in court alongside another man, Alex Blake Walker, who pleaded not guilty to two charges of rape and one of sexual assault. Both were granted bail on the condition that they keep their solicitors informed on their place of residence.The trial is scheduled to begin on July 1 next year.As reported by The Guardian, the first time that the 28-year-old rapper entered court (May 16), he appeared by video link and only spoke to confirm his real name, date of birth and Northampton address.Prosecution lawyer Adam Yar Khan also told magistrates that the charge of rape was an indictable-only offence, declaring that the case must go on to be heard at the crown court.Prior to today’s not guilty plea, the musician took to social media to deny all charges.

Russell Brand has announced a UK tour for his new stand-up show Bipolarisation – find all the details on how to secure tickets below.The tour kicks off in August with shows in Maidenhead and Slough, before rounding off with dates throughout September in London, Chesham, Oxford, Plymouth and Wolverhampton.Tickets for the shows will be available first in a pre-sale on Ticketmaster from Wednesday June 7.

Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week. Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay. The 19-year-old’s father Robert Possnett is an Extinction Rebellion protester who has been arrested a number of times.

Long-held plans for two new platforms at Manchester's Piccadilly station have been pulled with a 'new approach' to ease congestion on the railways to be prepared. The application which also affects Oxford Road station has been withdrawn by Network Rail with 'alternative options' set to be developed.