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Members of the public arrive in high spirits wearing One Love Manchester T-shirts. There is tight security with police and searches outside Manchester Arena ahead of tonights benefit gig, the first show since the Manchester Bombing. Members of the public arrive in high spirits wearing One Love Manchester T-shirts. There is tight security with police and searches outside Manchester Arena ahead of tonights benefit gig, the first show since the Manchester Bombing. Women with tickets take selfies infant of security...

  The government yesterday (Fri) placed an export bar on an "extraordinary" sculpture of Queen Victoria to prevent it leaving the country. Arts Minister John Glen is hoping a buyer can come forward with £1.45 million to save the 1887 bust made by master sculptor Alfred Gilbert. The export ban on the "remarkable" depiction of the ageing monarch will remain in place until December. But if a serious buyer comes forward the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport may...

Celebrity power couple Beyonce and Jay Z have given veganism a major public image boost, according to new academic research. Not so long ago, veganism was considered suitable only for only extreme animal rights activists and hippies. Now the diet is considered trendy and healthy - and much of the credit for turning people off meat and on to veganism is down to the A-list couple along with their celeb pals Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez , according to a...

These stunning photographs shed a neon light on one of the biggest electronics market in the world. The Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei District in China which is decked with neon lights as far as the eye can see. The cyberpunk-themed pictures of China's answer to Silicon Valley capture futuristic Blade Runner-like scenes in Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei District. The Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei District in China which is decked with neon lights as far as the eye can see. London-based graphic designer Marcus Wendt, 34, said:...

A man who claimed he was beaten up by Mobo award winning grime star Kano 'deliberately misled' the court to go on a climbing holiday causing the case to collapse today (wed). And the second victim also failed to appear as police admitted they had not heard from her for seven months. Throwing the case out, the judge asked for a full investigation after the defence unearthed social media pictures of Henry Kinman rock climbing in Grenoble after telling them...

Any seasoned festival goer will know the yearly schedules like the back of their hand. Dusting off their well-worn wellies for every major festival that hits the UK and worldwide alike. But is your diary set for the 9th September 2017? OnBlackheath popped its festival cherry in 2014, and now in its fourth year, the festival has grown in strength and following. And with the likes of Travis, The Libertines and Jake Bugg headlining over the weekend, the festival sponsored by...

If life hasn’t thrown you a few curveballs over the years, you probably aren't doing it right. Who wants to tread the straight and narrow route down a predictable path when a few diversions here and there can liven things up? If any band knows a thing or two about curveballs – and, more crucially, how to knock ‘em out of the park – it’s Glasgow hard rockers Gun. Hit albums and singles, break-ups, line-up changes… Gun have done them...

We’re at Broen Studio in Bergen. Øystein Braut, Njål Clementsen, Anders Bjelland and Øyvind Hegg-Lunde have locked into a groove that never seems to stop. Their bodies are swaying in time with the music, their heads are eagerly shaking to the song that’s pumping out of the room, and it seems like they’ll never get out of it. Maybe they don’t want to get out? It’s a little more than one year since Electric Eye released their second album, 'Different...

A truly ‘novel’ romantic novel, Bounty of a Stolen Empire is a sharply-written, wryly humorous book that tells the real-life story of Marguerite, Countess of Blessington – one of the most remarkable women of her time but shamefully forgotten by history. Born Margaret Power in 1789, our heroine, begins her tumultuous life in a chaotic, less-than-salubrious home in an Irish backwater.  As a bored child prodigy she finds herself pregnant and sold by her father in matrimony to a man...