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Jeremy Gilbertson Picture this: you walk beneath a lighted marquee into a vibe-heavy room and blend into a building crowd. Drink in hand, you and your friends exchange stories of the performer’s previous shows and who was first to discover them. The house music seeds the subtle rise in energy as the stage techs ensure the musical mise-en-scene is set.

A 13-year-old girl has been charged with serious assault after another female was allegedly thrown from a window in Wishaw.

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has aimed another swipe at the three Super League clubs - as he refused to even speak their names.

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Republic of Ireland u21s manager Jim Crawford has given Motherwell star Ross Tierney a mention after Rangers' Charlie McCann opted to swap Republic of Ireland for Northern Ireland.

Stacey Dooley celebrated her birthday in style with a sweet gathering with her Strictly Come Dancing pal and boyfriend Kevin Clifton.

An online support group has urged Dundee locals to keep looking for missing woman, Lynn McPaul.

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2K Sports has announced the roadmap for WWE 2K22, with Logan Paul and Mr. T both set to join the wrestling game.Last month it was confirmed that Machine Gun Kelly would be joining WWE 2K22 and now 2K has announced the full roster of additional players that will be joining the game this year.28 more wrestlers will be made available through five different packs in WWE 2K22, released throughout 2022.

Are you a fan of Non-League football? Give us your thoughts in the comments sectionThe fan was one of 50 to head down to watch the fixture at Kong Park, Lutterworth and while Warren was booked during the match - it is unknown whether it was for the incident.One Twitter user then said in response: "Hear me out.. the threat ain't great but characters are needed in Non League & my experience is he is a decent lad in the bar after."With a second adding: "My local team, might have to start going to watch."A statement from Lutterworth Town read: "The club does not condone the reaction and it was over the top but players do not come to football as a hobby to be abused by spectators."The player has received a lot of online abuse and he does not deserve that.

Formula One World Championship - and have insisted that it is perfectly legal.Lewis Hamilton and new teammate George Russell debuted the new style in Bahrain testing on Thursday (March 10) - and everyone noticed that the car had tiny side pods.With F1 chiefs admitting a lot of debate will be created by an "extreme interpretation" of the rules, Red Bull boss Christian Horner was forced to deny claims that he questioned the legality of the design.Horner, who oversaw Max Verstappen's controversial victory over Hamilton to claim his first world championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in December, was reported to have said that the "spirit" of the sport had been broken.A team spokesperson said: "Christian Horner has not given any interviews regarding Mercedes car. Any quotes being attributed to him this morning are incorrect."With Horner himself told Sky Sports F1: "I was slightly surprised to be reading comments I’m supposed to have been making, but there we go."With Red Bull saying in a statement: "So we are clear, we have made no official comment regarding Mercedes’ car and will not be doing so."Should the design be permitted? Give us your thoughts in the comments sectionMercedes' innovative new W13 features minimalist side pods and fins on both sides, which they presumably believe will give them an advantage over rival teams.

Russian forces encircle the key strategic target of Mykolaiv, on the road to the Black Sea, the man in charge of the city's defences warns that the attacking troops “will become dog food”.Ukrainian General Dmytro Marchenko, who is in command of the garrison at Mykolaiv, vows that his men would kill ten Russians for each civilian killed in the battle for the major Black Sea shipbuilding centre.One Russian attack has already been repelled, and General Marchenko says the streets are littered with Russian dead.“It’s unpleasant to say this,” he told The Times, “but their corpses are food for stray dogs.“We’re not able to retrieve them because of continuing Russian fire in those areas.”He added that many civilians had been killed in the Russian assault, and he knew precisely who was responsible.“We know who these people are,” he said. “We have a vast amount of intelligence, including much from our American partners, that consists of photos where we can see faces.

Valve’s recently released Steam Deck now has a quite simple way for players to install the Windows operating system on the device.The portable PC has been said to be able to run other operating systems, and now Valve is helping users easily get Windows running on the device as well. Users can find all the resources to get the operating system working on the handheld here.Valve has noted that there’s no dual-boot yet on the Steam Deck, as the SteamOS hasn’t been updated to let players choose between that and Windows.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Peaceful,” Emmanuelle Bercot’s Cesar-winning melodrama which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, has landed domestic distribution with New York-based banner Distrib US.Sold by Studiocanal, the movie is headlined by Benoit Magimel and Catherine Deneuve (pictured). Magimel, who won the Cesar Award for best actor — beating fellow nominee Adam Driver — stars as a man dying of cancer.

Loose Women panellist Frankie Bridge has admitted to a childhood trauma she received after visiting a war museum.The hosts Kaye Adams, Frankie Bridge, Judi Love and Nadia Sawalha were discussing a recent viral topic.A school had put on an educational display of a crime scene for their pupils and some parents were furious at the move as they didn’t think it was suitable for their children.Nadia initially said that she thought it was a “creative” way of getting children involved in learning as they are the most “voyeuristic” of people, but later changed her mind after hearing her co-hosts' answers.Judi said that she disagreed with Nadia and admitted that she would be “one of those parents down at the school” because she thought it was unnecessary to present it explicitly.She branded the performance as “ridiculous,” a “step too far” and “too close to reality because people are so “bombarded with tragedy and trauma”.Love went on to explain that different children have differing levels of emotional intelligence, meaning that they could be heavily affected by what the teacher’s thought was an engaging task.Kaye agreed that a school setting is supposed to be “a safe environment” for young learners who want to “trust and relax” without feeling “threatened in any way”.She turned to Frankie and asked her how her children would react and explained that her eldest would be “terrified” while her youngest would think it’s “great”, which she said “goes to show that all kids are different”.The mother-of two recalled an experience from her childhood: “When I was a kid, we were taken to the war museum and I still remember a lot of the things I saw there, and that caused me great anxiety for the rest of my childhood.”“My reaction to that

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorPeople who are interested in CNN Plus finally have a date when they can add it to their streaming repertoire. The WarnerMedia-owned cable-news outlet intends to launch the subscription broadband service on March 29.The detail — perhaps the last piece of information to be disclosed about the new media venue — comes ahead of a presentation CNN executives and anchors will make during the SXSW Festival this weekend.

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Comcast's NBCUniversal and Sky divisions have unveiled the executive team for their new global advertising and partnerships services unit. KC Sullivan will lead the unified Global Advertising & Partnerships team as president & managing director of global advertising & partnerships, the companies said on Thursday.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorNBCUniversal and Sky have set the leadership team for their One Platform Global Advertising & Partnerships initiative, which was first announced last month.President and Managing Director of Global Advertising & Partnerships KC Sullivan will lead the unified group and bring the offering to market. Sullivan, who was previously president and managing director of CNBC International, will now report to NBCU Chairman Linda Yaccarino and “partner closely” with Sky Chief Business Officer Patrick Béhar.Within the new global organization, Andrew Mortimer will now lead NBCUniversal + Sky Global Partnerships.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorIn an open letter to advertisers Monday, NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino offered a response to recent demands that media companies shift to a calendar-year upfront. She said transformation in the advertising business is a “shared responsibility” for the buy side and the sell side and made what she admits is an “ambitious call to action” for much broader change.The evolution of the TV ad business has taken on new urgency in 2020 in light of COVID-19, which has sidelined live sports and shut down production of TV programming.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWith the coronavirus pandemic spurring chaos across the U.S. economy, some of the TV networks’ best-known ambassadors to the advertising industry were called upon in recent weeks to speak with members of the Association of National Advertisers, an influential industry group representing 1600 companies that spend more than $400 billion each year on advertising and marketing.