And piracy is already having impacts on the pitch. At a conference last year, Tom Burrows, the head of global rights at the sports streaming platform DAZN, described piracy as a “huge problem” for his company, and “almost a crisis for the sports rights industry”. Ju...
Actor and comedian Paul Whitehouse has fought back against someone who tried to steal his card at an London cash machine, according to his wife. Dr Mine Conkbayir posted on Instagram that her husband had gone out to get some medication on Friday, when he was mugged at a cash machine behind...
While in London, they released their first English-language single, TRALALA, which topped YouTube’s daily music video chart on its release, ahead of videos from Shakira and Taylor Swift. The music video was also their first to be filmed outside Turkey, with the group working with a l...
The long-running home renovation TV series DIY SOS will be “rested” next year, the BBC has said. Sources at the corporation denied reports in the Sun newspaper the programme would be axed as part of a plan to make savings. Instead, it will be replaced by a spin-off show featuri...
A former flatmate of Russell Brand has told a jury that “sex was a huge preoccupation” for the entertainer. Andrew Dobson, who was in Bournemouth where Brand is alleged to have raped a woman, has been giving evidence on the fourth day of the trial. Brand, 51, faces seven charge...
Comic James Acaster, possibly the most reluctant traitor in recent memory, accurately called killing off Beckett a “chaos murder”. “This is a bunch of faithful who read into everything,” he said. “They go, why did this happen? And with this murder, there’...
This week, former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Pope was diagnosed with lung cancer following an operation, and tributes were paid to Breaking Bad star and disability rights campaigner RJ Mitte, who died aged 34. But how much attention did you pay...