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Paul McCartney has paid tribute to the late Annie Nightingale on social media.The legendary BBC broadcaster passed away on January 11 after “a short illness”. She was BBC Radio 1’s longest-serving DJ, and first female DJ on the station.Amidst tributes that have come pouring in for the DJ, McCartney has taken to social media to share his own.

passed away on January 11 after “a short illness”. She was BBC Radio 1’s longest-serving DJ, and first female DJ on the station.Now, her fellow Radio 1 colleague Nick Grimshaw has opened up to Annie Mac about his favourite story of Annie Nightingale.

Annie Nightingale once revealed that she was the first person to interview Paul McCartney after John Lennon‘s death.Nightingale’s death was announced yesterday (January 12) in a statement by her family. She was aged 83.The BBC Radio 1 stalwart championed many generations of musicians and was good friends with The Beatles.In a resurfaced interview on The Beatles podcast I Am The Eggpod from 2018, Nightingale shared that she was working on the music TV show The Old Grey Whistle Test when Lennon was shot and killed in 1980.She went on to say the show lined up a special programme that night to pay tribute to the singer and McCartney surprised her by phoning in during show.“It was frantic because we were trying to find people who would come in and talk about John and they just wouldn’t,” she said.

Radio 1 legend Annie Nightingale died yesterday at her home in London after a short illness. Described as "a pioneer, trailblazer and an inspiration to many", a statement was released by her family, informing her fans of the tragic news. A statement read: "Annie Nightingale MBE passed away yesterday at her home in London after a short illness.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Pioneering BBC DJ Annie Nightingale — the first (and for 12 years, only) female DJ on the network’s Radio 1 station, whose embrace of multiple genres of music cast a vast influence on the country’s music fans — died Friday after a brief illness, according to The Guardian. She was 83.

Edith Bowman has led tribute to 'trailblazer' Annie Nightingale after her sad death on Thursday.

Iconic Radio 1 DJ Annie Nightingale has died at the age of 83. In a statement, her family said she passed away at her London home on Thursday (January 11) following a 'short illness.'

Annie Nightingale, the first female presenter of a BBC Radio 1 show and co-host of The Old Grey Whistle Test, has died after a short illness. She was 83.

Hollyoaks fans have shared that they've been left in tears following tonight's episode, which saw the death of fan favourite character Juliet Nightingale, played by Niamh Blackshaw.The troubled teen was heartbreakingly diagnosed with stage three Hodgkins Lymphoma earlier this year. Wednesday night's episode saw the final moments of Juliet's life as she romantically shared what she had hoped would one day be her wedding vows. She began: "You were my friend first, my beautiful amazing friend, and then suddenly you were so much more.

Annie Nightingale, 82, has opened up about her late pal John Lennon’s love of comedy.She described the Beatles star as an “entertaining” joke teller as she reflected on their friendship. The presenter’s new BBC Radio 4 programme, Annie Nightingale's Age of Irreverence, explores the relationship between comedy and pop music. The show examines these feelings of irreverence in the Goons, the Beatles, Monty Python and other pop culture phenomena.  Annie revealed how she believed the satire boom leads back to 1950s series The Goon Show, from the minds of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine.“As a child I loved its anarchy and weirdness,” she remembered. “It wasn’t mother-in-law jokes and conventional British humour of the time. “They were very uncompromising: if you get it, you get it; if you don’t, you don’t. “What I didn’t realise as a little kid was that there was a whole generation of us listening who were going to be affected by it.

ITV Evening News since 2001 and became the programme’s sole presenter in 2017.

Former Emmerdale actress Anna Nightingale has opened up on welcoming her beautiful baby daughter to the world. The star, who played the ITV soap’s Andrea Tate, is still in a happy baby bubble as we chat to her and her fiancé Daren Dixon. But she’s eager to relive her birthing experience for OK! readers, revealing why she chose to have Beyoncé playing when Ava made her entrance.

  In her latest interview with The Sun, Anna admits that she was overworking herself baby travelling between Leeds and London to film her scenes for the show while only getting to see her family no more than twice a week. While she firmly believed that she would be able to cope with her hectic filming schedule, after six months into production, the soon-to-be mother of two noticed her mental health deteriorating as she began to experience panic attacks on set because she was “completely overwhelmed”.Anna recalled one particular moment where she was filming a scene inside Woolpack Pub 20 people and abruptly forgot her lines, which she described as one of her worst attacks at the time. “I couldn’t breathe, I didn’t know what I was doing and I

Massive Attack‘s Robert “3D” Del Naja has remixed Gang Of Four‘s ‘Where The Nightingale Sings’, with the new version featuring a guest appearance from Nova Twins – you can hear the track below.The remix will feature on the upcoming Andy Gill tribute album ‘The Problem Of Leisure: A Celebration Of Andy Gill And Gang Of Four’, which features covers of Gang Of Four tracks by the likes of IDLES, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea and John Frusciante and a collaboration between Tom Morello and Serj Tankian.Set for release on May 14, ‘The Problem Of Leisure’ has been further previewed this week with the release of 3D and Nova Twins’ take on Gang Of Four’s ‘Where The Nightingale Sings’.Gill worked on the remix of the track, which originally featured on

What are your views on the current situation in hospitals? Have your say in our comments below Local health systems in Greater Manchester have the ability to request space in the temporary hospital, which serves the whole North West and is being used as an intermediate ‘step down’ facility for people able to be released from hospital, but not yet well enough to go home or into residential care.

Dakota and Elle Fanning have both been in show business since they were very young, but they've never really shared the screen together. All that will change when they take on their roles as sisters Vianne and Isabelle in the film adaptation of Kristin Hannah's bestseller, . 

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Health bosses have denied a report that transfers of patients with Covid-19 to the newly built NHS Nightingale in London were rejected due to a lack of nurses.

A former soldier has told how working at London’s Nightingale Hospital was “as tough a war zone”.

A nurse set to start work at the Nightingale North West next week is devastated after his bike was stolen outside Manchester Children's Hospital.

The BBC has donated fully working ventilators from the set of medical drama Holby City to the new Nightingale Hospital in London