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Noel Gallagher makes his hugely anticipated homecoming to Manchester this weekend, with the first ever live gig inside Wythenshawe Park. Some 25,000 fans will be flocking to the vast Greater Manchester park to see the former Oasis icon in action with his High Flying Birds on Saturday night.

Leeds and Reading Festival takes place over the bank holiday weekend with tens of thousands of people expected to descend on the site.

Ivan Toney has broken his silence about his betting ban from football, describing it as his 'lowest point' in an exclusive interview. The Brentford striker was the latest guest for the popular podcast Diary of a CEO hosted by entrepreneur Steven Bartlett.

It is well known that being in the royal family comes with various rules of what can and cannot be done in public.

The Lionesses are one step away from making World Cup history after beating tournament hosts Australia in a thrilling semi-final. Of course the road to get here wasn’t easy, and the sporting stars say there have been plenty of challenges along the way, including sexism and having to work a second job alongside their training to support themselves financially.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor New York City is the latest government entity to prohibit the use of TikTok — the popular video entertainment app owned by China’s ByteDance — on devices owned by the city. The NYC Cyber Command, a division of the city’s Office of Technology & Innovation, said city workers must stop using TikTok effective immediately after the online security team determined that the app “posed a security threat to the city’s technical networks.” “While social media is great at connecting New Yorkers with one another and the city, we have to ensure we are always using these platforms in a secure manner,” a rep for the New York City mayor’s office said in a statement to the Verge, which first reported the ban.

Barbie has been banned in multiple countries following its release.Starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, the fantasy comedy has become the second highest-grossing film of 2023 worldwide behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie, passing the $1billion mark earlier this month at the box office.The film’s success also crossed another milestone, becoming the highest-grossing live-action movie solely directed by a woman.Ahead of its release in July, Barbie was banned in Vietnam due to a scene featuring a map depicting China’s contested territorial claims in the South China Sea.As reported by Reuters, the scene shows “an offending image” of the “nine-dash line”, which is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over large areas of the South China Sea, which is contested by Vietnam.A number of films have recently been banned in the country for the same reason, including Sony’s Uncharted and Dreamworks’ animated film Abominable.Kuwait subsequently banned Barbie after the film promoted “ideas and beliefs that are alien to the Kuwaiti society and public order”, according to Lafy Al-Subei’e, an under secretary of the Ministry for Press and Publication in the country (via the New York Times).Around the same time (August 9), Lebanon’s culture minister, Mohammad Mortada, made moves to ban Barbie, saying that the film was found to “promote homosexuality and sexual transformation”.

Ellise Shafer “Barbie” has been banned in Algeria in its third week of release, according to Reuters. In a statement to the news site, an unnamed “official source” said that the film “promotes homosexuality and other Western deviances” and “does not comply with Algeria’s religious and cultural beliefs.” The news was first reported by local site 24H Algerie on Monday, which wrote that the North African country’s Ministry of Culture and Arts had asked theaters showing the film to immediately remove it from their schedules.

Algerian authorities have pulled runaway box office hit Barbie from local cinemas over its “damaging morals”.

Stacey Solomon got revenge on her husband Joe Swash during their Turkey holiday on Monday by playing a brutal prank on him after he pushed her in the pool a day prior. While the TV personality, 33, got her own back, she couldn't share the full extent of her prank with her 5.7M Instagram followers out of fear she would 'get banned' from the platform.

A Stirling motorist caught driving while under the influence of the cannabis derivative THC has been banned from the road.

With cobbled walkways, ancient bridges and eerie ruins, this hauntingly beautiful village is almost entirely frozen in time. And while visitors are free to roam the narrow lanes of Wycoller in Lancashire, cars are banned.

Barbie movie has been banned in Kuwait and now faces calls for a ban in Lebanon amid complaints in the Arab nations about the film’s social values.Kuwait’s state news agency said that the nation acted to protect the country’s “public ethics”, while Lebanon’s culture minister accused the film of “promoting homosexuality”.The film is however still being shown in other conservative parts of the region, including Saudi Arabia.Barbie, which is directed by Greta Gerwig and stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, has grossed more than $1bn (£784m) worldwide within weeks of its release.Lafi al-Subaiei, the head of Kuwait’s board of film classification, said that the board usually asks for movie scenes to be cut if they are deemed to flout the country’s culture. But when a film promotes behaviour the state considers unacceptable, it is banned outright.The film “promulgate[s] ideas and beliefs that are alien to Kuwaiti society and public order”, a spokesman for the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information said (via BBC News).On Wednesday, the Lebanese Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada asked the interior ministry to “take all necessary measures to ban” Barbie.He said the film “promotes homosexuality and transsexuality… supports rejecting a father’s guardianship, undermines and ridicules the role of the mother, and questions the necessity of marriage and having a family”.Meanwhile, in the US, comedian and actor Marc Maron recently hit out at the film’s conservative critics, describing them as “insecure babies”.“The fact that certain men took offence to the point where they, you know, tried to build a grift around it in terms of their narrative as right wing [expletive] is so embarrassing for them.

A shoplifter has been banned from entering Co-Operative stores in Cheshire for two years. Christopher Downes was handed a criminal behaviour order for "over two decades" of shoplifting.

A mum has been praised for her response to an entitled neighbour who banned her kids from talking in their own garden after claiming it affected his work. The neighbours used to put the bins out for each other and say hello, but tensions arose from nowhere and turned seriously sour after the remark, reports the Mirror.

Lebanon has banned “Barbie” screenings entirely.

topped $1 billion in global ticket sales, some countries still aren’t on board.The bubblegum pink flick won’t see a premiere in Kuwait to protect “public ethics and social traditions,” Reuters reported.Lafi Al-Subaie, chairman of the film censorship committee in Kuwait, has accused “Barbie” of “carrying ideas that encourage unacceptable behavior and distort society’s values,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, which cited local media reports. And in Lebanon, per Reuters, the film has been accused of “promoting homosexuality.”Minister Mohammad Mortada, who is supported by the powerful political party and militant group Hezbollah, said the movie was found to “promote homosexuality and sexual transformation” and “contradicts values of faith and morality,” as it lessens the “importance of the family unit.”Because of Mortada’s statements, Lebanon’s interior minister, Bassam Mawlawi, has asked the General Security’s censorship committee to review the film and give its recommendation, according to Reuters.The Post reached out to Warner Bros.

The Barbie movie isn’t going to be found in Lebanon anytime soon.

will no longer be permitted to read many of Shakespeare’s plays in full — due to sexual content.The decision is in accordance with the 2022 Parental Rights in Education Act, according to the board. The act, recently signed into law by Gov.

A teacher with two decades of experience has been ‘indefinitely’ banned from the profession for submitting her own work for a student's GCSE geography assessment.

A man has been banned from 'approaching any lone females' after a number of incidents on canal towpaths in Wigan.

A man who found his vulnerable brother lying dead weeks after a vicious assault says he was banned from attending court to look the teenage attacker in the eye and "see if he was sorry".

The pioneering 1971 England women’s team, coined the ‘Lost Lionesses’, have been celebrated at an uplifting event at the National Football Museum in Manchester.

Reading & Leeds has banned campfires, BBQs and disposable vapes ahead of the dual festival’s return this month.The 2023 edition of the event is due to take place at Richfield Avenue in Reading, and Bramham Park in Leeds between August 25-27. You can buy any remaining tickets here.Headlining this year’s R&L will be Billie Eilish, Sam Fender, The 1975, The Killers, Foals and Imagine Dragons.

A woman who neglected both her rabbit and dog has been banned from keeping animals for five years. By the time the rabbit, which had suffered for weeks, was taken to a vet it was in such ill health it had to be put down. The dog was infested with fleas and had alopecia.

Saturday Night Live has seen so many fantastic guest stars over its nearly 50 year run – but not everyone is exactly welcome back to Studio 8H.

Tekken 8 players were found to be illegally playing the game’s closed network test and as a result have been threatened with pre-release bans by Bandai Namco.Available for all platforms, the second closed network test for the forthcoming fighting game was held over the weekend (July 29-30). But because Tekken 8 was playable on PC, this allowed the players who had an awareness of how to circumvent the software to continue playing the game outside of its authorised hours.An important reminder from the TEKKEN Project and Bandai Namco Esports Team.

EastEnders' Lucy Benjamin has revealed that she's banned her teenage daughters from watching Love Island, as she 'doesn't think it puts out the right message'. The 53 year old actress, who is known as Lisa Fowler in EastEnders, is mum to Bessie Jo, 16, and Rosie, 12, with her husband, Richard Taggart. But she's spoken out about her views on Love Island, the hit ITV2 dating show, and explained why it isn't on in her house with two young daughters.

Ice Cube is claiming to be the victim of political bias.

Ice Cube is making some new claims against The View and Oprah.