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Glastonbury Festival Organiser Plans for Fallow Year in 2026 The renowned Glastonbury Festival is expected to take a break in 2026 to allow the land to recover, as stated by organiser Emily Eavis. Located at Worthy Farm in Somerset, the festival typically occurs four out of every five years, with the fifth year designated for land restoration. Land Regeneration and Cow Welfare Speaking on the Sidetracked podcast by the BBC, Emily Eavis mentioned that the fallow year would provide an opportunity for everyone to relax and allow the cows on the Somerset farm to roam freely and reclaim their territory.…

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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A chilling surveillance video captures a predator pursuing a schoolgirl before assaulting her in broad daylight as authorities encourage other victims to step forward. Irtiza Abbas, aged 25, was sentenced to two years in prison after confessing to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl and a 22-year-old female college student in Birmingham. Abbas committed his first assault on January 16 near Aston University, targeting the 22-year-old woman along Dartmouth Middleway after ensuring she was alone before carrying out the assault. Irtiza Abbas was…

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Significant Advancements of Extreme Right Blocs: Key Insights from European Elections Substantial progress has been made by extreme right parties in securing parliamentary seats within the European Union.While some votes in the European Parliament elections are still undergoing tallies, the results indicate a noticeable shift towards the right in the parliamentary composition of the 27-nation bloc. Victors of the Election The surge of the extreme right was anticipated and seems to have come to fruition, with populist, nationalist, and Eurosceptic parties set to capture slightly less than a quarter of the total votes.Notably in France, the decisive victory of the…

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The BBC has officially announced that Giovanni Pernice will not be returning for the upcoming season of Strictly Come Dancing. The 33-year-old dancer from Italy has been a part of the popular BBC One primetime show for nine years. Despite reports indicating he would not be competing, Pernice was not included in this year’s lineup of professional dancers. This follows allegations of “abusive or threatening behavior” during his time on the show, which he has vehemently denied. While complaints have been made, the BBC has neither confirmed nor denied launching an investigation. A statement released by the law firm Carter-Ruck…

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A Barclays branch in Broadmead, Bristol, is one of several targeted on Monday (Picture: SWNS) Activists have vandalized Barclays branches across the nation in a synchronized demonstration regarding the Palestine conflict. Locations in cities such as Bristol, Manchester, and Stockport were attacked overnight and early Monday morning by Palestine Action members, who broke the glass fronts of the branches and sprayed red paint on them. The group asserts to have closed down 20 branches in England and Scotland, although the full extent of the damage was not immediately evident. They have accused Barclays of ‘sponsoring genocide in Palestine’ by being…

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CCTV footage has emerged which appears to show TV doctor Michael Mosley falling over close to where his body was found on the Greek island of Symi.Footage found by a beach bar at Agia Marina shows what appears to be the 67-year-old making his way down a rocky slope close to a fence before he falls out of view.It comes after his widow Dr Clare Bailey Mosley said he “very nearly made it” to safety. Image: Dr Michael Mosley. Pic: SYSPEO/SIPA/Shutterstock She said Mosley – who went missing on Wednesday after leaving his wife and friends at Agios Nikolaos beach…

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Olympic sprinting legend Usain Bolt has revealed he ruptured his Achilles after being stretchered off in a charity football match in London.The 37-year-old was injured in the second half of the Soccer Aid fixture at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. He had been captaining a World XI against an England select side which included former internationals such as Jermain Defoe and Theo Walcott.Concern grew for the Jamaican when he went down while trying to break up an England attack. Image: Bolt was stretchered off at Stamford Bridge. Pic: Action Images/Reuters He was stretched off before later confirming the extent of his…

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George Orwell died at the age of 46, and did not live to see Nineteen Eighty-Four become the cultural juggernaut it is today (Picture: Alamy/ Rex)While I was in the middle of re-reading George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four last week, a funny thing happened. I was reading an article about the actor Richard Dreyfuss on the Metro website. He’d ranted on stage about LGBTQ+ rights and the MeToo movement ahead of a screening of Jaws at a Massachusetts theatre, and his son Ben was defending him. ‘My dad is not a perfect guy,’ he wrote. ‘I know that better than…

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