Glastonbury Festival will receive a £900,000 grant as part of the government’s £400 million Culture Recovery Fund. The festival was forced to cancel two events due to the pandemic and has announced a global livestream this year, on the first weekend music venues can reopen. Its co-organisers Michael and Emily Eavis said they were “extremely grateful
Month: April 2021
For the first time we’ve now seen what happened in the moments after George Floyd’s arrest. Two paramedics arrived at the scene and saw a number of police officers on top of him. They assumed the patient was putting up a struggle. On closer inspection they found he was in fact unresponsive. The court heard
More than 70 MPs – including more than 40 Conservatives – have sent a warning shot to Boris Johnson by forming a major cross-party campaign against the use of vaccine passports within the UK. The prime minister has said there will “definitely” be a role for vaccine passports for Britons heading abroad, with it reported
Scientists have discovered new vulnerable sites on the surface of the COVID-19 spike protein for antibodies which could help in the development of vaccines. Coronavirus is surrounded by spike proteins that it uses to enter and infect human cells. COVID vaccines work by teaching the immune system to make antibodies to the spike protein. Researchers
Author Michael Rosen has said his long COVID symptoms have included “sandy skin” and sharing his experiences on social media has helped him cope. The children’s writer, 74, described his illness to Sky News after latest figures showed that 1.1 million people in the UK have reported suffering a range of COVID-19 symptoms for more
The mother of a student who has been missing for more than a week believes he met someone online who “built his confidence and trust”. Richard Okorogheye, 19, left his family home in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London on the evening of Monday 22 March, boarded a bus, and later took a 20-mile
Boris Johnson has described a surge in coronavirus cases in France – which has plunged the country into a third national lockdown - as “very, very sad” and suggested the UK could be impacted within weeks. Schools in France will be closed for at least three weeks and domestic travel will be banned for a
The board of Deliveroo is facing demands from the company’s new shareholders to cancel an £18m payout to the investment banks which this week launched one of the City’s most turbulent flotations on record. Sky News can reveal that a number of furious investors want the company to decide “at the earliest opportunity” that it
Images of George Floyd being treated in the back of an ambulance, after a police officer knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes, have been shown to a jury. The distressing pictures were viewed by jurors during the trial of Derek Chauvin who is accused of murdering the unarmed 46-year-old black man in
The pub trade has reacted angrily to the prospect of a “triple whammy” of new coronavirus restrictions when sites reopen in England, warning they risk further damage to businesses after a year of disruption. Hospitality industry representatives have written to the prime minister to express their outrage at new guidance governing the start of outside-only
At least 43 children have died in violence during Myanmar’s coup, according to reports described as “horrifying”. The death toll of children has more than doubled in the past 12 days and the total number of people killed now stands at 521, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) says. The youngest victim was a
Fashion retailer Next said the battle to keep high street stores going in an online world was “far from over” as it hiked its profit forecast on hopes of a rebound for consumer spending. Next delivered the upbeat assessment as it reported a 54% slump in pre-tax earnings to £342m for the year to the
It’s been a busy few months for Tahar Rahim who started the year by both terrifying and intriguing millions of viewers as serial killer Charles Sobhraj in BBC series The Serpent. He’s since been on the awards campaign trail for his new film The Mauritanian, in which he plays another real person – Guantanamo Bay
One of Shakespeare’s most famous plays has been reimagined after a planned run at the National Theatre couldn’t go ahead because of the pandemic. Instead Romeo & Juliet has become the first original production for TV, filmed at the iconic venue. The Crown star Josh O’Connor, who recently won a Golden Globe for his work
It opens with the crescendo of a dark, sweaty gig, a mixture of throaty vocals and feedback and cymbals clashing, before cutting to the almost-silence of the morning. From the offset, Sound Of Metal makes you incredibly aware of what you are hearing as well as seeing on screen; not just the conversations, but the
Researchers have discovered that melting ice sheets have already caused enormous sea-level rises, pushing oceans around the world higher by up to 18 metres at the end of the last ice age. The scientists at Durham University have established which ice sheet was responsible for this rapid rise, which took place at 10 times the