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The Irish Sun
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Major UK music festival is AXED as ‘group of children' suddenly fall ill in ‘extraordinary medical incident'
A MAJOR music festival has been cancelled at the last minute due to an "extraordinary medical incident". Organisers of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddford have now confirmed that the incident was a "flu-like outbreak" which involved several people reporting the same symptoms. 1 Rick Astley and Lulu performing live at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen Credit: Alamy However, the event - hosted over six days - will run as normal tomorrow. The festival sees singers and dancers from around the world compete in over 20 competitions.
Scottish Sun
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Major UK music festival is AXED as ‘group of children' suddenly fall ill in ‘extraordinary medical incident'
DANCE OFF Major UK music festival is AXED as 'group of children' suddenly fall ill in 'extraordinary medical incident' A MAJOR music festival has been cancelled at the last minute due to an "extraordinary medical incident". Organisers of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddford have now confirmed that the incident was a "flu-like outbreak" which involved several people reporting the same symptoms. Advertisement 1 Rick Astley and Lulu performing live at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen Credit: Alamy However, the event - hosted over six days - will run as normal tomorrow. The festival sees singers and dancers from around the world compete in over 20 competitions.
BBC News
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Henley Festival 2025: What you need to know
Motown legend Diana Ross is set to headline the opening night of this year's Henley black-tie music and arts festival takes place on the riverside in Henley on Thames over five Ross will perform at the event's Floating Stage on Wednesday, along with McFly and Rick Astley later in the festival, based on the Oxfordshire-Berkshire border, was first held in 1982. It attracts about 25,000 people each year. Now aged 81, Ross started her career at Motown in the 1960s, achieving stardom with The Supremes, on hits like Baby Love, Stop! In The Name Of Love and You Keep Me Hanging split from the group in 1970 and went on to score more than 50 UK chart hits, including Upside Down, Endless Love and Chain performers on the Henley line-up include comedians Ed Byrne and Alistair McGowan, while Mel Giedroyc is set to perform her first DJ festival's charitable initiative aimed at nurturing upcoming talent - Rise - continues, with local acts White Lakes and Conor McLain Festival made headlines in 2022 when former prime minister Theresa May was spotted enjoying Craig David's set on the day her successor Boris Johnson resigned. Who are this year's Henley Festival headliners? Wednesday 9 July – Diana RossThursday 10 July – McFlyFriday 11 July - Rick AstleySaturday 12 July - Hacienda ClassicalSunday 13 July - Matteo Bocelli, Jamie Cullam Getting to Henley Festival The concert is staged at Henley Bridge. The post code is RG9 2LY, a 15-minute walk from the town nearest train station is Henley-on-Thames, which has links to London (1 hour) and Reading (20 minutes). The festival entrance is a 10-minute walk from the is pre-bookable parking available on you want to arrive by boat, limited moorings within the Henley Festival enclosure are available to Visit Henley website can help plan your stay and journey by public transport. When do the gates open and what can I bring? Gates open at 17:00 BST with the shows ending at midnight on Wednesday and Thursday, 01:00 on Friday and Saturday and 23:30 on are three bookable restaurants as well as a variety of street-food-style concessions. Visitors are not permitted to bring their own food and drink into the festival sarnies and pork pies are more your thing - bring your deck chairs and rugs as picnics can be enjoyed in the car park throughout the festival. What should I wear? The event is billed as the UK's only all-black tie festival. So it is strictly posh clobber only - dinner jackets and bow ties, long or short evening dresses, formal lounge suits and smart jumpsuits are all allowed. Turn up in denim, leather or casual clothing or trainers and you will be jogging home. Accessibility issues Festival goers with disabilities can apply for a free ticket for a care Badge parking is available and much of the site and audience areas have wheelchair ramps. Contact the event organisers for specific details. What is the Henley weather looking like? The festival starts just as the UK's third heatwave of the summer is forecast to arrive later this heat health alerts have been issued by the UK Health Security Agency, for regions including London the South East and South West, from Wednesday until 15 the advice on coping with the sun - slap on the sun cream, drink plenty of water and wear a the BBC website to check the weather forecast for Henley for the latest on each day of the festival You can follow BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight on Facebook, X, or Instagram.
Daily Mail
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Eddie Jordan's send-off was a reminder that life in sport is so noble that it's harrowing when it's taken away, writes OLIVER HOLT
There was a memorial service to celebrate the life of Eddie Jordan at Westminster Central Hall on Monday. It was riotous, just as Eddie's life was. When his widow, Marie, spotted a friend beginning to cry when they met before the start, she scolded him gently. It was not to be that sort of occasion. Nor was it. Eddie's was a life well lived, a life that was cut short too soon, but a life that had given him love, children, grandchildren, happiness, success and a rock-star lifestyle in Formula One. A thousand people and more who loved him celebrated all that he was when they flocked to this cavernous venue. And as the service came to an end, Eddie's old Silverstone band, Eddie and the Robbers, were joined on stage by Rick Astley, Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford, performers from Michael Flatley 's Lord of the Dance and a cohort of clapping, stamping F1 drivers, among their number Damon Hill, Mika Hakkinen, Martin Donnelly, David Coulthard, Johnny Herbert, Martin Brundle and Eddie Irvine. As they clapped and cheered, footage on the big screen behind them showed Jordan jumping off the pit wall at Spa in 1998 and skipping joyously down the pit lane in the aftermath of Damon Hill's victory in the Belgian Grand Prix, the first triumph for Jordan Grand Prix, the day the sport's great disruptor entered the pantheon of its greats. The day after Lando Norris won the British Grand Prix for McLaren and huge crowds swelled the stands at the old aerodrome at Silverstone, everything seeming to confirm that the sport is in rude health, it was worth remembering that today's heroes stand on the shoulders of giants like Jordan. After the service, we all went down to the Lecture Hall and Library and savoured the joy of seeing old friends and resolving to meet again soon and recapture those days of the 1980s and '90s that were at the heart of the youth of many of us, swapping stories about Eddie. Mine are only fond. Like many, I will always feel I owe him a debt because he, and friends of his like his commercial director, Ian Phillips, were welcoming and friendly to me when I came into the sport in the early 90s and introduced me to people who I might never have met otherwise. It was Eddie who egged me on, with indecent glee, to do a bungee jump at the Indianapolis 500 in 1993. He told the story ever after of how petrified and inelegant I looked — and was — as I plunged off the platform. It was the first and last time I ever did a bungee jump. It would not have happened without him. I remember how amused he was when Bob McKenzie, from the Daily Express, and I offered to take him and Phillips to dinner at a fancy restaurant called Le Roannay in Francorchamps during another Belgian Grand Prix weekend. As the night wore on and the wine flowed, he invited Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone over and the night got better and better, Flavio ordering the best grappas the restaurant served. They had to wake Bob and I at the end of the night when everyone else had gone — and then we saw the bill. I swapped a few messages with Eddie a couple of years before he died in March this year at the age of 76, and he was still laughing about that night. 'Reminds me of Spa when da journos PAID,' he wrote and I could hear him laughing. He was still full of mischief. Not too long ago, he gave me some information about a deal he thought was happening in F1 and was delighted when we ran it. 'U did brilliant to run da story,' he wrote. 'Bravo.' Bob was there on Monday, of course, and Ian, with a few genuine rock stars, a lot of grandchildren and many of the drivers who drove for him. There were a lot of songs and a lot of reminiscences of a man who, as Hill had said recently, 'had the energy of a nuclear power station'. There were plenty of readings, too. His daughter, Zoe, read beautifully. It was one of the only solemn parts of the afternoon. She recited A E Housman's poem To an Athlete Dying Young. 'Now you will not swell the rout,' she read, 'Of lads that wore their honours out, Runners whom renown outran, And the name died before the man.' I thought then of sport and loss and of Diogo Jota, a young man, humble and amiable, a loving husband, father, son, brother, champion, footballer and friend, taken so, so early, and of the terrible tragedy of a full life like Eddie's that was snatched away from Jota in an instant. There is something so noble and vital about a life in sport, a life that represents vigour, youth and triumph, that the loss of men and women in the arena, men and women who have lived our dreams and given us so much, seems even harder to bear. 'The time you won your town the race,' Housman's poem begins, 'We chaired you through the market-place, Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. 'Today, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town.' What a strange coincidence Even limited exposure to elements of the Premier League is enough to make a cynic out of a saint. If it were not enough that Arsenal should have continued to pick Thomas Partey for nearly three years knowing he faced allegations of rape, what a strange coincidence that the player should be charged three days after the expiry of his Arsenal contract. The brain glitches with tech errors One of the problems with technology in sport is that officials are so in thrall to it that it steals away their common sense and ability to exercise judgment. When Britain's Sonay Kartal hit a backhand that was clearly long at a crucial juncture of her match against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Sunday, chair umpire Nico Helwerth ordered the point to be replayed when it became apparent the line-calling system had been inadvertently switched off. Pavlyuchenkova was, rightly, livid and the authorities are fortunate that she went on to win the match. The issue is that the shot was several inches out. It wasn't even close to clipping the line. If Helwerth had called it as he saw it, there would not have been a problem. But when technology glitches, the human brain appears to glitch with it.
Perth Now
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Rick Astley worries about female pop stars
Rick Astley worries about female pop stars being "coerced" into stripping off onscreen. The Never Gonna Give You Up hitmaker - who shot to fame in the 1980s - has admitted he feels uncomfortable seeing young women in the music industry wearing skimpy outfits in their videos as he fears they could be shedding their clothes due to pressure rather than feeling "comfy". He told The Sunday Times newspaper: "I sometimes see the videos that some women are in - controversial as this may be - and I just go: 'I hope you decided that. I hope you decided to wear that and you're comfy with that. That you've not been kind of like slightly coerced into it'. "Or that you've not been like: 'She went down to almost nothing - so I'm gonna go down to practically nothing'." Rick also admitted he's glad he didn't become famous in the age of social media, adding: "I would not want to be starting out with a music career right now because it's just so alien to me … I think a lot of people are struggling because of the social media thing and it can eat you." The 59-year-old singer admitted he spent years healing because fame was so difficult to deal with and it took a lot of therapy for him to be able to move forward with his life. He explained: "I was probably a bit messed up. I don't think anybody goes through that kind of 15 minutes of fame and doesn't come away with a few scars … "I think it's weird I had this crazy monster hit around the world and no one ever took me aside and said: 'By the way, here's a few tips, here are a few hints.' "I didn't really know who I was a lot of the time. I kind of thought: 'Who have I just been for five years?' Part of it was definitely me, but a lot of it wasn't." It comes after Rick was recently asked to name his biggest disappointment in life and he admitted it was "fame". He told told the Guardian newspaper: "Fame. The upside is not worth the downside - you can't turn fame on and off, and have privacy."
