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The Guardian - UK News9 months ago

Synthetic opioids may have caused hundreds more UK deaths than thought

Study find nitazenes, which are up to 500 times stronger than heroin, can degrade significantly in portmortem blood samplesDeaths caused by a synthetic opioid that is hundreds of times stronger than h...

Music News

Reshona Landfair on her life after R Kelly: ‘I had to rebuild my entire self’

She was just 14 when she was groomed by the R&B star, and filmed in an explicit video. She tells the extraordinary story of how she survivedPicture Reshona Landfair in 1996 at 12 years old, when she m...

Sports

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show review – a thrilling ode to Boricua joy

The Grammy-winning Puerto Rican megastar delivered a powerful, detail-packed performance that paid tribute to his history and teased more greatness for his futureWhen the NFL announced in September th...

The Guardian - UK News9 months ago

Bank chairs backtracking on climate commitments could face shareholder revolts

Exclusive: Campaign group calls on institutional shareholders to vote against re-election of bosses overseeing net zero row-backBank chairs who water down their lenders’ climate commitments this year...

Maxïmo Park review – Newcastle band play the hell out of their jaggy and angsty debut album

O2 Academy, GlasgowPaul Smith and the band play tracks old and new with a dash of humour and the sort of chops you develop from years on the roadTrilby set to rakish and his suit truss tight, Paul Smi...

BBC News - UK9 months ago

Can TikTok's BookTok community help cut screen time?

Some young people say BookTok is helping them cut their screen time and read more books.

EntertainmentMusic News

No big names. No big budget. But Heated Rivalry is a big hit

The made-on-a-shoe-string, Canadian-produced series is taking the world by storm.

BBC Entertainment & Arts9 months ago

Music News

Winter Olympics 2026 opening ceremony review – disco-dancing opera masters upstage Mariah Carey

Carey was the big draw at Milan’s San Siro, but she was outweighed by pop-classical artists – and a sizeable dollop of kitschThe Winter Oympics opening ceremony arrived shrouded in mystery. There wasn...

Music News

Add to playlist: the bizarro punk of Dutch upstarts Grote Geelstaart and the week’s best new tracks

Dressed in Sunday school apparel and singing exclusively in Dutch, this unorthodox five-piece embrace clinical chaosFrom Kapelle, HollandRecommended if you like Black Midi, King Crimson, YHWH NailgunU...

Danny L Harle: Cerulean review – an earnest homage to early 00s bangers or a poor imitation?

(XL)On a high-minded album boasting a weighty guest list including Dua Lipa and Clairo, the superproducer lacks the hooks of the pop-trance he’s so heavily influenced byCerulean is a confusing busines...

Fabiano Do Nascimento & Vittor Santos Orquestra: Vila review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month

(Far Out)The Brazilian guitarist is joined by the 16-piece ensemble for an album that showcases his dextrous blend of finger-picked melody and percussive strummingOver the past decade, Brazilian guita...

BBC News - UK9 months ago

Watch: How do GB athletes train for skeleton?

BBC Sport's Emma Middleton visits the ice skeleton track where Team GB train.

EntertainmentMusic News

Artist Andy Goldsworthy on gathering gravestones: This is my best work yet

For years he was overlooked by the art world - now he's been approached to create a piece for a new art prize.

BBC Entertainment & Arts9 months ago

Politics

The Mandelson Scandal: has Starmer finally lost control? – Politics Weekly

As Starmer apologises for believing Mandelson’s ‘lies’, just how damaging will the latter’s links to Jeffrey Epstein be for the PM’s own reputation? John Harris and Kiran Stacey discuss the latest. Pl...

The Guardian - UK News9 months ago

The Cardigans’ Nina Persson: ‘Ozzy said our Black Sabbath cover was the creepiest thing he’d ever heard’

The Swedish band’s frontwoman answers your questions on ‘sweet and curious’ Tom Jones, being changed by cancer and whether the Cardigans will ever make new musicAre you a fan of actual cardigans? gary...

Mandy, Indiana: Urgh review | Laura Snapes' album of the week

(Sacred Bones)The Manchester/Berlin band’s second album refines their industrial-club sound, as physical and hyper-detailed as being dragged under by a wave and admiring the flotsamMandy, Indiana are...

BBC News - UK9 months ago

How does curling work?

Our Ask Me Anything team explain how the Winter Olympic sport of curling works.