Dumfries and Galloway Climate Hub appoints new climate officers for Nithsdale

If you were dying, how would you handle an apocalypse? What would motivate you? How would you react to a surprise global catastrophe unfolding around you? Those are the initial questions asked by Michael Sarnoski’s “A Quiet Place: Day One,” an unexpectedly moving prequel to John Krasinski’s pair of genre-twisting thrillers that began with 2018’s “A Quiet Place.” And before you yell “Spoiler!” we’re sad to say the first scene in the movie takes place in a hospice where we meet our unconventional heroine, Sam (Lupita Nyong’o).

The Food Network has announced their second TV show renewal of 2024!

Elden Ring recently to prepare for the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, and he’s finally beaten the add on after dying 1,070 times.Kai Cenat is known for his loud style and his frequent celebrity guests, including the likes of Ice Spice, Nicki Minaj, and even Kevin Hart. Recently, though, he’s been playing Elden Ring, and he’s been struggling so much that he brought a therapist on stream to help him get through a boss fight he’d been stuck on for hours.It appears to have worked, because after 99 hours and 1,070 deaths, the streamer has finally beaten the DLC. He let out a long, loud scream of elation when he felled the DLC’s final boss.

Killer Mike will not be facing criminal charges following his arrest after an incident with a security guard at the Grammy Awards in February.TMZ shared yesterday (June 26) that prosecutors in the Los Angeles city attorney’s office won’t be filing charges against the Run the Jewels rapper, real name Michael Render, and was told that he’d successfully completed his city attorney hearing and agreed to undertake community service with a non-profit organisation of his choice.However, the office could reopen the case if Render gets into further trouble over the next year, the outlet reported.After winning three Grammys, for Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Album, Render was taken away in handcuffs following the ceremony on February 4.The L.A. police department said that he’d been taken into custody in relation to a physical event inside the Crypto.com Arena, and he was booked for misdemeanour battery as a result of the incident with the security guard.After his arrest, Render told Pitchfork in a statement: “I do want to note that last night, my team and I fielded a number of calls from concerned fans and colleagues wanting to know if I was OK.

Glastonbury Festival returns to Worthy Farm this weekend, welcoming artists like Coldplay, SZA and Avril Lavigne to one of the world’s most legendary music festivals.Ticket holders have been flooding the gates since yesterday morning, ready for a full weekend of music, atmosphere and hopefully good weather.But for those who didn’t manage to secure tickets to the annual event, or for anyone who just wants to catch a bit of the action from home without having to get their waterproofs on, the festival will be available to watch on mainstream TV.You’ll be able to watch the festival highlights and headliner sets live on BBC One, Two and Four, alongside short special features about some of the artists and their road to Glastonbury.On Friday (June 28), coverage begins on BBC Four at 7:30pm with the Sugababes. Later on you’ll be able to catch the IDLES set at 10:15pm, unless you’ve already switched over to BBC One for the headliner set from Dua Lipa, starting at 10pm.Saturday’s coverage kicks off at 5pm on BBC Two, and flicking between channels will mean you can catch The Last Dinner Party’s set at 7pm and Keane at 8pm on BBC Four, before switching over to BBC One for Coldplay at 10pm.

Firefighters are battling a blaze on Glasgow's Buchanan Street this morning with plumes of smoke seen across the city centre.

Death in Paradise's Ben Miller will be playing the character of Detective Superintendent Richard Groves alongside Anne-Marie Duff and Dominic Cooper.

A Channel 4 star has been named as one of two people found dead at a property this week. Daniel Duffield, 24, was found dead at a house in Hednesford, in Cannock, Staffordshire. He was a paramedic who took part in Channel 4's 999: On the Frontline.

We're all thrilled that warmer weather is finally here (at least for now), but it can also bring a host of skin irritations – including heat rash. Also known as prickly heat or miliaria, this skin condition is common in hot weather and particularly affects babies and children, causing uncomfortable redness and itching.

Neighbours star Ryan Maloney, who plays Toadie ‘Toadfish’ Rebecchi, has announced he’s leaving the show after 30 years.Toadie was a character who was unlucky in love for a long time, but off-screen Ryan lives with his wife, Alison Hayward, who he married in 2003 and the couple have two children, Erin and Jack - who are now teenagers. Last year, Alison and Ryan celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. Previously, he said she was a huge support when Neighbours was axed in 2022.

A Channel 4 TV star is believed to have been found dead in a Staffordshire home, with a man's body located alongside a woman's body. Police have mounted a double murder probe after the discovery in Cannock at around 12.30pm on Tuesday, 25 June – believed to be the bodies of 999: On The Front Line star Daniel Dufford, 24, and Lauren Evans, 22, according to MailOnline.

There are two camps of people: box dye users and salon lovers. But if you're a salon goer but happened to, say, find a home dye that gave salon-like shine, dimension and grey coverage, would that make you swap to the box side? When Revlon launched its new Colorstay Longwear Permanent Cream Colour, £5.50 here, we got our eager OK! tester, and box dye pro, Emily to ditch her usual home dye to give it a go – and the results, she says, were so good that her friends and family wondered whether she'd been to the hair salon.

Coronation Street actress Lorna Laidlaw, who plays Bailey family matriarch Aggie Bailey has reportedly quit the soap more than 12 months after her last appearance on the cobbles.The 61-year-old star, who became most well known for playing Mrs Tembe in the medial soap Doctors for eight years, last appeared on the show in summer 2023 and has been absent from a number of the Bailey family's major storylines. After last being seen on screen on 12 June 2023, the actress didn't return as part of the storyline in which her son Michael lost his job and was wrongly arrested, nor when her on-screen husband found the body of murder victim Leo Thompkins on his building site.

Many of us don't use physical cash nowadays. It can feel much easier to tap on your contactless card rather than counting out change.

Coronation Street fans have "rumbled" who is using Bethany Platt’s credit card.The journalist recently moved back to Weatherfield from London this year but earlier this month, she found out she had been the victim of fraud. A furious Bethany learned that someone had been using her old company credit card and found copies of the statements to prove she didn’t make the purchase. Sinister solicitor Joel Deering (Calum Lill) later offered to give Bethany legal advice about the credit card.

Samantha Faiers traded in her Essex roots for a sprawling Surrey mansion worth over £2 million, and has been keeping herself busy with incredible renovations, including an iconic green oven, ever since. Sam posted her new oven to her home design Instagram account in May, captioning the photo: “my dream oven.This was the top of my Pintrest for many years, I still can’t believe she’s finally in my kitchen.” She tagged Officine Gullo, the oven manufacturer in the post.

Mark Sutherland Max Lousada is buzzing. Warner Music Group’s CEO of Recorded Music is back in his hometown, London, and the sun has come out for what feels like the first time in a spectacularly sodden summer, even by dismal British standards. Both the rays and Lousada have returned just in time for Glastonbury, the legendary festival that attracts 200,000 fans and features hundreds of artists across a weekend of music, mayhem — and, in most years, mud.

Ben Croll Since taking over in 2022, NIFFF director Pierre-Yves Walder has made the festival’s socially tinged retrospective program a hallmark of his tenure. Rounding out a so-called trilogy that started with queer representation then followed with a gender focus that put the femme fatale and scream queen under the spotlight, this year’s retrospective will tackle class conflict in cheeky terms, putting the screws to those swells with a 20 film program titled Eat the Rich.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “Barefoot Contessa” star Ina Garten has signed a new exclusive multiyear deal at her longtime home Food Network that includes a Season 5 renewal for her latest show, “Be My Guest With Ina Garten.” The next season of Garten’s Emmy-award-winning cooking talk show set at the East Hampton home she shares with her husband Jeffrey will launch in the fall and boast a guest list that includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert and fellow Food Network star Bobby Flay, among others. Previous seasons of “Be My Guest” have featured Emily Blunt, Jennifer Garner, Nathan Lane, Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci, astronaut Nicole Mann, ballerina Misty Copeland, restaurateur and author Danny Meyer and journalist Frank Bruni.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor “Baby,” which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week where it won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for joint acting lead Ricardo Teodoro, has closed further sales. Berlin-based sales agency M-Appeal have sold the distribution rights to Ama Films for Greece, Mezipatra z.s for Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Falcon for Indonesia.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The family drama “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies” has become the highest-grossing Thai film of all time in The Philippines, distributor Westec Media claims. The company, which released the film, does not quantify the receipts or the record. But there is little doubt of the film’s hit status across Asia.