A group of teachers dancing to a song from the hit musical The Greatest Showman has been watched more than 900,000 times in three weeks. Staff and pupils at Ormiston Sudbury Academy in Suffolk performed From Now On as a way to say goodbye to their Year 11 students. The school has been using its
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It may be a smaller crowd of 10,000 people instead of the usual 100,000, but the Download Festival is taking place this weekend. The event is part of the government’s live event trial seeing if large scale gatherings are possible. All those attending the Donington Park have been tested with a PCR test and a
Mosh pits, without face-masks or social distancing, will be allowed this weekend at a race track in Leicestershire. The Download festival, which had been cancelled up until three weeks ago, is taking place at Donnington Park. This version of the festival, however, is a government test event. Instead of the usual 111,000 festival goers, the
Former BBC director general Tony Hall has said it was the “wrong judgement” in hindsight not to sack journalist Martin Bashir over his behaviour in the run-up to his 1995 interview with Princess Diana. “I trusted a journalist… we, the team, gave him a second chance, and that trust was abused and misplaced,” Lord Hall
Singer Olly Murs and fellow friends of the late TV presenter Caroline Flack have taken part in a trek across the Lake District to raise funds in her memory. Speaking to BBC Breakfast, the team said “it was a lot more emotional” than they originally thought. The ex-Love Island star took her own life in
Prue Leith and Arlene Phillips have both been made dames in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Great British Bake Off judge Prue is being recognised for services to food, broadcasting and charity. Former Strictly Come Dancing judge and choreographer Arlene Phillips is being given her new title for services to dance and charity.
The renowned New York Philharmonic symphony orchestra has been on hiatus for the past year due to the pandemic, but has now finally gotten to play in front of an audience last weekend in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. The event is part of an ongoing series called Death of Classical, which brings classical music to unconventional
Stephen Graham plays a conflicted prison officer in BBC One’s new prison drama Time. He told BBC Breakfast that the writer Jimmy McGovern is one of the reasons he is an actor today. “I’ve worked with Jimmy McGovern a few times, to me he’s an icon”. Watch Time on BBC One, Sunday at 21:00 or
A ballet school in London is hoping to make dance accessible for young Muslim girls. The Grace and Poise Academy says it’s the first of its kind in the country and offers specially adapted classes in line with Islamic teachings. Pupils move to poetry instead of music and the classes are female-only. Reporter: Shabnam Mahmood
The wedding dress that Diana, Princess of Wales, wore in July 1981 has gone on display at her former Kensington Palace home. Designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, it was loaned to the London exhibition by her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. Read more: Princess Diana’s wedding dress goes on display
Cruise is a celebration of queer culture in London during the 1980s. The play is written and performed by Jack Holden, who is best known for his lead role in War Horse. It tells the true story of a man diagnosed with HIV in 1984. He decides to go out with a bang, and says
Adrian Angelico is one of the few trans male opera singers in the world. The art of opera has always had an appreciation of gender fluidity – and it allowed Adrian to perform as a man onstage before he realised that this was how he wanted to live offstage too. To find out more about
Zara Slattery’s illness started as a sore throat, but she was eventually fighting for her life as a flesh-eating bug attacked her body. The artist, from Brighton, was placed in a medical coma for over a fortnight and her husband was told to prepare for the worst. Ms Slattery recovered but lost a leg, and
Gogglebox star Tom Malone Jr. says he and his girlfriend, Bryony Briscoe, are regularly trolled online for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. The death of George Floyd in the US state of Minnesota sparked global protests and led to the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement. BBC reporter Ashley John-Baptiste has been hearing
The BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, has told the Today programme that an investigation will be published next week into why journalist Martin Bashir was rehired in 2016. Bashir became the religion correspondent in late 2016, when questions had already been asked about his conduct surrounding the Princess Diana Panorama interview. He was later promoted
Kate Garraway says her husband still “can’t really move” after returning home from hospital, where he spent more than a year being treated for Covid-19. Former political adviser Derek Draper, 53, was admitted in March last year with coronavirus symptoms before having to be put into a coma. The TV presenter gave an update on
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