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A mum has slammed her son's school trip fees as 'utterly ridiculous' after discovering she could take her family of six away to Center Parcs for the same price.

The success of Manchester United's transfer window won't just be determined by who they bring in, but by who departs as well.

Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.Last year, Ticketmaster was in hot water due to them not being able to handle the demand for Taylor Swift tickets for her ‘Eras’ tour. The general ticket sale was eventually cancelled due to “extraordinarily high demand”.Swift then followed up with a response sharing: “There are a multitude of reasons why people had such a hard time trying to get tickets and I’m trying to figure out how this situation can be improved moving forward.”She continued: “I’m not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them, multiple times, if they could hand this kind of demand and we were assured they could.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music President Biden will announce at a press conference on Thursday that Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary, along with other ticketing companies, have pledged to give U.S. consumers the ability to see the full price of tickets up front — eliminating the practice of last-minute service fees and other additional expenses suddenly being added to ticket prices late in the online purchase process. It is important to note that the fees themselves are not necessarily being eliminated, but rather the practice of not revealing them until the final steps of the purchase. At this afternoon’s scheduled announcement, President Biden will be joined by representatives from Live Nation, SeatGeek, xBk, Airbnb, the Pablo Center at the Confluence, TickPick, DICE, and the Newport Festivals Foundation, all of which are currently provide all-in pricing or are announcing a new commitment to do so in the coming months.

Riley Keough is reportedly paying her grandmother, Priscilla Presley, $1 million in order to settle the lawsuit over control of the estate of Lisa Marie Presley, who died in January at age 54.

Reddit communities including some of its biggest clicked into to private mode today, meaning not accessible to the broader public, as they carried through on threats to protest the platform’s fees hikes to third-party app developers.

The skies are cloudy over LA and thick over NYC today, but for over 1,000 studio and “struck companies” staffers their Black List membership just went dark.

Anna Sorokin’s legal troubles are far from over…

Faux heiress Anna Delvey reportedly owes her disbarred lawyer, Audrey A. Thomas, more than $152,000 in legal fees.

Care home fees are rising by ten per cent in Tameside as the borough faces ‘significant challenges’ in recruiting enough carers.

pic.twitter.com/Mfs7wpS0lTThe Skims founder and reality TV star has taken up several prison reform issues before and in 2020 successfully interceded with President Trump to grant clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old grandmother and prison reform advocate. In a media release, Kardashian, who is working her way toward a law degree, stated, “It’s hard to fathom what these mothers have to go through.

The BBC has unveiled an action plan to help “reduce the number of women in severe financial hardship who are prosecuted for licence fee evasion.”

A judge has dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times and three journalists who published a 2018 piece on his tax schemes.

Gwyneth Paltrow has agreed not to seek to recover legal costs from the retired optometrist who brought a high-profile civil lawsuit against her over a 2016 ski collision. The Oscar-winning actress was awarded $1 in damages in March after a jury sided with her over Terry Sanderson, who sought more than $300,000 in damages, claiming that Ms Paltrow skied into him on a beginner run at the Deer Valley resort in Utah, leaving him with several broken ribs and head injuries.

Gwyneth Paltrow will not be recovering her attorney fees after she was found not liable in the ski accident in 2016 that involved optometrist Terry Sanderson.

Gwyneth Paltrow will not get back her attorneys fees after being found not at fault for a 2016 ski collision involving retired optometrist Terry Sanderson. The final judgment was filed Saturday, where a Utah judge affirmed the jury's March 30 verdict that found Sanderson to be "100% at fault."  The judgment said Paltrow would not seek attorneys' fees and Sanderson would not appeal the verdict, effectively ending a protracted legal battle seven years after the two crashed on a beginner run near the base of Deer Valley Resort in Utah.

Stand-up comedian and Loose Women panellist Judi Love has had her say on the revelation that Rebekah Vardy is seeking to trademark the term 'Wagatha Christie' following her loss against Coleen Rooney in court last year. Writing in her weekly OK! column, Judi also wishes pal AJ Odudu a premature congratulations following rumours she may be set to host the upcoming reboot of Big Brother, shares her shock at Tory MP Andrew Edwards' alleged comments over slavery, praises YouTube star EO for last week's mental health admission and says more needs to be done following the shooting of Ralph Yarl in America last week. Sign up - for free - to read Judi's full column.

A woman has revealed how she managed to sell her own house in just three weeks without using an estate agent - saving herself £3,000 in fees. Carrie Rose, 30, bought her semi-detached house in a popular village in south Yorkshire six years ago for £154,000.

Parents across Greater Manchester are considering quitting their jobs due to the soaring cost of childcare - as new research showed families are being priced out.

Jen Shah’s legal troubles continue. The former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star’s fraud case lawyer claims she owes her thousands of dollars in legal fees.

Olivia Wilde accused ex Jason Sudeikis of not paying child support since their November 2020 split.

Thania Garcia The Cure‘s Robert Smith continues his long-drawn-out battle against the many monetary hurdles of the ticketing world — this time, he’s taking on secondary resale websites. Just a few weeks ago, Smith was able to secure several refunds from Ticketmaster for fans looking to catch the British band on their forthcoming “Lost World” tour. Now, Smith says they’ve managed to cancel 7,000 scalped tickets and further announced a plan to donate the original fees to the charity Amnesty International. Meanwhile, tickets will be resold to fans. When the tour — the band’s first North American trek in seven years — was first announced on March 9, the Cure opted out of Ticketmaster’s “platinum” and “dynamically priced” ticket options, both of which have infamously been the cause of a massive uptick in ticket prices.

Amy Childs has said her nursery fees are already a "fortune" as she prepares for the arrival of her twins.The TOWIE favourite, 32, is expecting twins with her beau Billy Delbosq, with their little bundles of joy expected to arrive next month. Amy is already mum to two children from previous relationships: Polly, five, and Ritchie, four. Ritchie isn't in school yet, meaning Amy is still paying for his childcare and forks out an eye-watering £100 a day in nursery fees.

launched an investigation into a $2 billion investment the came from the Saudi government, for a firm created by Jared Kushner after he left the White House.

Ticketmaster has agreed to partially refund ticketing fees paid by Cure fans who bought tickets for the band’s upcoming US tour through the Live Nation company’s Verified Fan platform. This follows a backlash after some fans were charged fees in excess of the face value of the tickets.“Ticketmaster have agreed with us that many of the fees being charged are unduly high”, tweeted Cure frontman Robert Smith last night.

Smith tweeted Wednesday.The ticket prices, which started at $20 and reached hundreds of dollars, later doubled in price thanks to the company’s fees.A fan bought 4 tickets priced at $20 each but paid a final sum of $172 due to a service fee of $46, a $40 facility charge, and a $5 processing fee.So @thecure and @RobertSmith wanted to keep ticket prices at a reasonable level for fans on their upcoming North American tour dates. Of course @Ticketmaster absolutely rinsed them with ridiculous extra chargeswtf even is a service fee or a facility charge or processing fee?? pic.twitter.com/jsgspXnifjThe rocker noted that while artists cannot “limit” the fees, the debacle has left him seething.“To be very clear: The artist has no way to limit them.

Robert Smith, frontman of the U.K. rock legends The Cure, is the latest artist to take aim at Ticketmaster for its business model.

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor The living hell of concert ticket-buying loomed into the foreground again this week, but this time it was not millions clamoring for a limited number of Taylor Swift or Bruce Springsteen tickets but rather attempts by long-running British alternative band the Cure to avoid gouging fans for its forthcoming “Lost World” North American tour. While the group had managed to avoid such controversial policies as platinum packages and variable pricing, frontman/founder Robert Smith was appalled to see hefty service fees added to the cost of “Verified Fan” tickets, which are intended to protect fans by keeping tickets out of the hands of scalpers, for the tour.

The Cure’s Robert Smith has responded to criticism about ticket fees for shows on their upcoming North American tour, which in some cases exceed the price of the actual tickets being sold.The band, he said, had opted to sell tickets though Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system in order to limit the number that ended up on the big bad touting sites (or ‘scalping’ sites if you prefer, given these are US shows). Despite seeing positives with that approach, Smith said that he was also angry about the high fees charged by the Live Nation-owned ticketing platform.“I am as sickened as you all are by today’s Ticketmaster fees debacle”, he wrote on Twitter last night.

The Cure‘s Robert Smith has said he is “sickened” by high Ticketmaster fees for the band’s upcoming North American tour after they vowed to keep prices affordable for fans.Last week the band announced a 30-date tour across the US, which is set to kick off at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on May 10 before closing out at the Miami-Dade Arena in Florida on July 1.In an email to fans, Smith said they would keep ticket prices reasonable, writing: “The Cure have agreed all ticket prices, and apart from a few Hollywood Bowl charity seats, there will be no ‘platinum’ or ‘dynamically priced’ tickets on this tour.”The band also said that tickets would not be “transferable” to minimise “resale and keep prices at face value”. Smith has since elaborated on the ticketing strategy, acknowledging “real problems” with the system and that it wasn’t “perfect”, but did clarify that the band had a “final say” over pricing.However, after the Verified Fan sale went live yesterday (March 15), some fans reported that Ticketmaster fees, including service fee, facility charge and order processing fee, exceeded the price of actual tickets.Smith has now responded, tweeting that he was “sickened” by the “ticketmaster ‘fees’ debacle”.He continued: “To be very clear: the artist has no way to limit them.