East Midlands health alert issued as temperatures head towards 30C
The UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has said the July heat could pose a risk to people who are vulnerable
The UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has said the July heat could pose a risk to people who are vulnerable
Death of popular brewer who, with Bruce Wilkinson, launched a microbrewery decades before the boom in them
The council run "reuse" shop is set to return this summer, giving you a chance to help reduce the impact on the environment and find some bargains.
(10 Summers/BMG)The fourth album from Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us producer features cloying love songs, odes to Mom and thanks to GodWhen Jesus told his followers to have “faith the size of a mustard seed” he was partly thinking ahead to the career of LA hitmaker Dijon Isaiah McFarlane, whose 2014...
The UK will see the hottest day of the year so far next week as a 30C heatwave is set to roast the country
A sensitive account of the poet’s wild life on the West Coast The subtitle of this biography alludes to a line from Hardy that& Thom Gunn used as the epigraph for his last collection, Boss Cupid: “Well, it’s a cool queer tale.” Gunn’s life was cool and queer in the way that we use those epithets now...
(Unsound)This searching, soulful release conjures up the spirit of summers spent by the lake and in the forestNamed after a Lithuanian snake spirit that supposedly brings families health and prosperity, Polish guitarist Raphael Rogiński’s hypnotic new album is filled with the heat and light of summe...
(Jagjaguwar)The Canadian indie-garage-rockers take the mickey out of pop, punk and the stories we tell ourselves, but strong feeling outweighs the cynicismTrite metaphors, tortured similes and outright cliches are, ahem, ten a penny in today’s pop lyrics – so how refreshing to have Zach Choy, bandle...
The director explains how a desire to transcend race and immigrant identity led to his semi-autobiographical tale of an angst-ridden Taiwanese American teenage skater and an Oscar-nominated short about his grandmothersSean Wang is jet-lagged. He has been up since 4am after arriving in London late th...
The ambitious city centre venture attracted crowds of punters but struggled to sell enough drinks from the bar
The popular Jazz Club the Hound Dog had to close it's doors three weeks ago, we spoke to the late owner to understand why
A fascination with words and symbols provides a unifying theme in this richly ambiguous collection of short stories A courtroom artist sees the features of her date in the face& of a defendant. A woman stranded on the pavement when her office’s automatic doors refuse to open& finds her attention dra...
France pulls out all the stops for the start of the Games. Plus another perilous rescue in the Lake District. Here’s what to watch this evening5.45pm, BBC One One hundred years since the games were last held there, Paris is hosting the greatest sports tournament in the world for a third time – and...
Places like Metchley Roman Fort, Sutton Park Roman Road and Lawley Middleyway Viaducts are all hiding secrets
The director, along with his collaborator Chrystabell explain – or try to – their new album Cellophane Memories and the magical marriage of music and film‘Where we’re from,” says The Man from the Other Place in David Lynch’s TV series Twin Peaks, “there’s always music in the air.” The line concerns...