Joni Mitchell will perform at the Grammy Awards for the first time in her five-decade music career this weekend. The 80-year-old singer-songwriter, who’s best known for her hit Big Yellow Taxi, is up for best folk album. Image: Mitchell in 1969. Pic: PA The Canadian star’s previously won nine Grammys and a lifetime achievement award,
Month: January 2024
The Archbishop of Canterbury has again slammed the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, telling the House of Lords: “We can as a nation do better than this bill.” Speaking in the upper chamber, the Most Rev Justin Welby said the government was “continuing to seek good objectives in the wrong way”, leading
Lloyds has confirmed it is axing its mobile banking vans – just days after it announced plans to cut 1,600 jobs as it increasingly shifts services online. The banking giant said visits to the branches had fallen by 90% since 2018, with as few as two people regularly using the service in some locations. The
A British man aiming to run the length of Africa has been given the green light to enter Algeria – after visa issues left his gruelling challenge “hanging in the balance”. Russ Cook, from Worthing in West Sussex, has been running the length of the continent for 283 days, covering more than 7,600 miles (12,200km)
Carlos Bolsonaro, one of the sons of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, has been the target of police raids, reports say. The raids have been carried out as part of an investigation into suspected illegal spying on political opponents during his father’s term in office, according to Reuters. Federal police served search warrants against Carlos
Erin Moriarty says she’s been targeted by online “verbal abuse”, leaving her barely able to eat or sleep, since former Fox news anchor Megyn Kelly accused her of getting plastic surgery. The 29-year-old actress, who played Starlight in the Amazon Prime show The Boys, wrote a long post on Instagram, describing “bullying” she’d been subjected
When NFL teams pick college players in the yearly draft, the last pick of the last round is given a rather unwanted nickname – “Mr Irrelevant”. The title even comes with its own trophy of a fumbling NFL player, a comedy roasting from retired stars, and a free holiday to California’s Newport Beach. It is
The Labour Party will this week back a report calling for the British Business Bank to be given an expanded role as it hopes to take a decisive step in its efforts to be perceived as the most pro-business force in British politics. Sky News has learnt that a review commissioned by shadow City minister
Inchcape, the London-listed car dealer, is exploring a sale of its UK retail business – a deal that would herald another phase in the industry’s ownership shake-up. Sky News has learnt that Inchcape has begun sounding out prospective buyers of its domestic operations in recent weeks. Bankers at Rothschild have been hired to oversee talks
The slow-motion collapse of Evergrande, the world’s most indebted company, entered what is likely to be its final stage on Monday when a Hong Kong court ordered its liquidation. The property developer, which has more than $300bn worth of liabilities, has been approaching this point ever since, in December 2021, it first missed a bond
Jeane Freeman has told the UK COVID-19 Inquiry she will ‘regret for the rest of her life’ care home deaths caused by Scottish government decision-making. Ms Freeman, who was Scotland’s health secretary during the pandemic up to the 2021 Holyrood election, said there were “no risk-free choices” when considering whether to introduce social distancing measures
A Hong Kong court has ordered the liquidation of China Evergrande, the real estate firm with more than $300bn (£236.1bn) of debts, amid deepening fears for the territory’s wider corporate health. Justice Linda Chan ruled Evergrande had been unable to offer a concrete restructuring plan to creditors – more than two years after defaulting on
A German company is set to use the Shetland Islands to send rockets into space – with plans to launch at least one a month. Rocket Factory Augsburg’s (RFA) chief commercial officer said excitement is building ahead of their “Olympic gold medal” moment this summer. If everything goes to plan, it will be Europe’s first-ever
Iceland supermarket boss Richard Walker has switched his support from the Conservatives to Labour, saying Sir Keir Starmer’s party is “the right choice” for his customers. Mr Walker, a former Tory donor and the executive chairman of Iceland, said under Sir Keir’s leadership Labour had “progressively moved towards the ground on which I have always
Britney Spears has appeared to apologise to Justin Timberlake for things she wrote about him in her autobiography. The 42-year-old singer shared a post on Instagram saying she was sorry if she had “offended any of the people I genuinely care about” along with a clip of Justin Timberlake singing on Saturday Night Live. Spears
Ryanair has reported a slump in quarterly profits and narrowed its expectations for annual earnings after some online travel sites stopped selling its flights. The no-frills carrier said it made profit after tax of €15m (£12.8m) over the final three months of 2023, its third quarter, compared to the €211m it achieved in the same
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