Wyclef is making an ‘insane’ mixtape
Getty Images The star is behind hits like Ready Or Not, Gone Til December and Hips Don’t Lie Fugees star Wyclef Jean is throwing down the gauntlet to younger hip-hop artists with a mixtape featuring his take on the year’s biggest songs. He will rework tracks like Kendrick Lamar’s DNA and Young Thug and Future’s […]
Kings of Leon tickets sold despite no venue licence
Todd Owyoung/NBC The American rock band are set to headline Blackweir Live Tickets for a Kings of Leon gig in Cardiff have gone on pre-sale, despite the venues licence application not yet being approved. Blackweir Fields, an extension of Bute Park, is set to be used for music events next summer. Bute Park currently has […]
What happened to Mugabe’s land reforms?
AFP Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said land reforms are “irreversible” Zimbabweans will vote in the country’s first presidential election since Robert Mugabe stepped down after more than 30 years in office. In the past few decades, the southern African country has gone from being one of the brightest economies in the region to one […]
Where will all the electric cars be charged?
Getty Images People are paying attention to lampposts again If electric cars are ever to become mainstream, then we are going to need a lot more places to charge them. The key is to find space for chargers where people would actually use them. Kerbside is the obvious spot, but there chargers are competing for […]
Northern Ireland’s school meals service hit by shortages
Reuters The EA’s catering service provides meals for pupils in most schools across NI Northern Ireland’s school meals service is facing “significant challenges” due to some food and staff shortages. That is according to a letter from the Education Authority (EA) to school principals. The letter said that many “schools’ kitchens had been experiencing some […]
How much do you know about the past winners of Sports Personality of the Year?
Reckon you’re a big Sports Personality of the Year fan? Do you sit down and watch it every year? Well it’s time to put that knowledge to the test as we ask you to recall the sportsmen and women who came first, second and third in the last decade. Oh, and to make it that […]
Swansea tidal lagoon: Taxpayers loaned companies £2.5m
Tidal lagoon: ‘Welsh Government loans kept firm afloat’ £2.5m of taxpayers’ money was loaned to companies behind the snubbed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project. First Minister Carwyn Jones said it had not been wasted and government funding was normal to develop new technology. He said he wanted to prevent the company collapsing as it awaited […]
US plans to curb nicotine in tobacco
Getty Images The new rules will affect e-cigarettes as well The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking to limit nicotine content in tobacco products, for the first time in its history. The policy announced on Friday has a goal of cutting back on nicotine levels in order to discourage addiction and lower the […]
Rio Olympics 2016: Did the IOC’s gamble pay off or did Brazil fail to deliver?
As an experience, Tokyo will be more polished, more high-tech and more intense than anything we have witnessed in Rio. The Japanese capital is one of the most energetic and pulsating places on earth – and organisers are already hard at work to make the Games reflect this. The addition of several new and exciting […]
Martin Scorsese’s editor Thelma Schoonmaker on his hatred of eyebrows
Getty Images Schoonmaker and Scorsese edit his films together but she says “we don’t fight” Martin Scorsese’s long-time collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker has said it would have been impossible to make The Irishman without Netflix. “Nobody would fund this movie,” the esteemed film editor tells BBC News. “Scorsese and Robert De Niro struggled for seven years […]