A fly-on-the-wall reality TV show about celebrities Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash will return for a second series, the BBC has announced. The first series of Stacey And Joe launched in April and followed the couple and their children, as well as their ducks and two dogs, through day-to-day life at their Pickle Cottage home … Read more
Robbie Meredith BBC News NI Education and Arts Correspondent Universal Pictures Hiccup befriends the young dragon, Toothless, in the new live-action version of the animated movie Filming How to Train Your Dragon in Northern Ireland was not without its challenges, according to the film’s producer. Dragons tend to be pretty large, for one thing. The … Read more
Harriet Heywood BBC News, Cambridgeshire Jo Underhill Almost 190 people were part of the research at Kettle’s Yard gallery in Cambridge Visiting an art museum could change how we think about our lives, according to researchers. A University of Cambridge study found people’s ability to think in abstract ways was boosted by admiring art. The … Read more
Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Jason Bell Simon Stone (centre) will direct the production, starring Andrew Lincoln (left) and Alicia Vikander Actress Alicia Vikander is set to make her UK theatre debut in a new production of Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea, producers have confirmed. It will mark the Oscar winner’s first stage role of … Read more
The BBC has announced plans to make a Call the Midwife film and prequel TV series set during the Second World War. It comes as filming begins for the 15th series of the BBC One drama, which follows a group of nurse midwives working in London’s East End from the late 1950s to the start … Read more
Sir David Attenborough is launching what he says is one of the most important films of his career as he enters his hundredth year. He believes his new, cinema-length film Ocean could play a decisive role in saving biodiversity and protecting the planet from climate change. Sir David, who will be 99 on Thursday, says: … Read more
The carpet at the Met Gala 2025 Every year, the Met Gala’s carpet goes through its iterations, metamorphosing each time with a new theme. In 2023, one saw a stunning off-white fabric, to be a canvas for the theme of the year: Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty. In 2025, the red carpet took on a … Read more
Rebekah Vardy has agreed to pay almost £1.2 million of Coleen Rooney’s legal costs following their libel battle, a judge has been told. Mrs Rooney ran up a legal bill totalling more than £1.8 million while successfully defending herself against Mrs Vardy’s High Court claim in 2022, a specialist costs court previously heard. Now, in … Read more
The home of Ukrainian Eurovision contestant Khrystyna Starykova has been destroyed by Russian shelling in the city of Myrnograd. The 19-year-old is currently in Switzerland rehearsing for her performance with the band Ziferblat, but posted photos of her damaged apartment block in the Sviltly neighbourhood. “Home. And I dreamed so much of returning home,” she … Read more
Sir Salman Rushdie is set to make his first in-person appearance in the UK since a stabbing left him blind in one eye. The acclaimed British-Indian novelist said he is delighted to be returning “after too long”, and is expected to take part in an exclusive session at the Hay Festival talking about his recent … Read more