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1,000 musicians featuring members of Funeral For A Friend, The Blackout and more to celebrate the music of Linkin Park at huge Birmingham Arena gig

Funeral For A Friend, The Blackout, Holding Absence and more will come together to pay tribute to Linkin Park at a huge show in Birmingham later this year.Taking place at the Utilita Arena on August 18, the show is being put on by the Uprawr Foundation, a local charity founded by an alternative club night in the city to raise money to help provide free mental health counselling and services to the alternative community.The show was christened ‘1,000 Lights’ in reference to Linkin Park’s final album ‘One More Light’. Indeed, the Utilita Arena was the last place late frontman Chester Bennington performed before he took his own life in 2017 at the age of 41.The show will also feature talks and video messages from famous faces in the alternative music world as well as a performance from tribute band Linkin P4rk.Musicians can sign up to participate and will be tasked with fundraising for the charity via JustGiving.
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Nurse 'caught murdering baby by mum who didn't realise what was happening', jury hears
A "killer" neonatal nurse was "interrupted" by a mother while she was "in the process of attacking her premature son" who later died, a court has heard.Former nurse Lucy Letby allegedly murdered the child – born seven weeks premature and weighing less than 3lbs – when he was in her care.The prosecution alleges she then went on to develop "an unusual interest" in her victim's parents and even searched them out on social media several times – including "once on Christmas Day.Letby, 32, a former neonatal nurse at Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, is on trial accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 others in an alleged year-long killing spree at the hospital.She denies all charges.Nick Johnson KC, prosecuting, said in August 2015, the mum walked in to see her son and "interrupted Lucy Letby who was in the process of attacking [the child] - although she did not realise it at the time".The baby boy "was acutely distressed and bleeding from his mouth" when the mum arrived with breast milk, said Mr Johnson, with Letby trying to reassure her the blood was due to the "feeding tube irritating his throat". The jury heard Letby went on to tell the mum that the registrar would be down to "review" the boy's condition and urged her "to return to the postnatal ward".
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