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A Scots student has been picked at the voice of the nation - winning a competition which will see her becoming the first person with a Scottish accent to be featured on a Ring doorbell. Glasgow student Azkah Sardar beat off the competition to be crowned Ring's Voice of the Nation.

An easyJet passenger has claimed her suitcase arrived with around £2,000 worth of items missing after she made a stopover at Manchester Airport.

Lauren Coates The Museum of the Moving Image and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have announced the winners of the 2024 Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize and 2024 Sloan Student Discovery Prize, annual awards representing the highest achievers from Sloan’s nationwide film program.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Entangled Publishing, the publisher of Rebecca Yarros‘ hit romantasy novel “Fourth Wing,” is issuing calm before the storm on the release date of Yarros’ latest book by telling readers it’s addressed the misprint issues that affected sequel “Iron Flame.” “Onyx Storm,” the third book in Yarros’ “Empyrean” series following dragon-rider and war-college student Violet, hits shelves Tuesday with a two-million-copy first print run of its “deluxe edition” and more than one million pre-orders across print, digital and audiobook formats. Anticipation for the book release has been high (stoked by the “Fourth Wing” TV series in development at Amazon) and so have fans’ fears that the misprint issues that plagued “Iron Flame’s” release would affect “Onyx Storm” as well.

A Prestwich school has warned pupils to be 'extra vigilant' following reports some students were followed home.

Michelle Obama is focusing her attention on what matters to her on the day that Donald Trump is returning to the White House.

The Queen has met a top Scottish Premiership footballer, alongside students and a composer, during a visit to a Scots university.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com Elizabeth Nissen, a veteran ABC News correspondent, died Jan. 7 in Ann Arbor, Mich., three days after her birthday. She was 71.

David Lynch‘s children have invited fans of the late director to a “worldwide group meditation” to honour his legacy.The Twin Peaks creator’s death was announced Thursday (January 16) by his family, which followed claims he was “forced to relocate from his house” due to the Los Angeles wildfires. He was aged 78.A host of artists and directors have offered their condolences following his death, including Steven Spielberg, Edgar Wright, James Gunn, Hugh Jackman, Billy Corgan, Questlove and more.Lykke Li also said that he “changed my life”, writing: “He was the one that introduced me to meditating and that saved my life.” Likewise, in her tribute, Chaka Khan nodded to Lynch’s use of Transcendental Meditation and how it had inspired changes in her life.“A visionary who introduced me to Transcendental Meditation through his Foundation, transforming my life and the lives of millions,” she wrote.

Two huge tower blocks for Manchester and Salford, as well as a massive housing plan for Stockport, are among big developments tabled this week.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Animation company GKids has acquired theatrical rights for the North American distribution of “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-.” The film will be released Feb. 28 and is directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki (“Evangelion”). Yoji Enokido (“Revolutionary Girl Utena”) is the film’s screenwriter and is joined by Hideaki Anno for the screenplay.

A teenage boy who died while playing football at school complained of shortness of breath a month earlier, an inquest has heard.

A burglar targeted university students in Manchester city centre and ransacked their apartments after using a false identity. Boris Danso was unmasked through CCTV enquiries after students reported their flats had been targeted.

King Charles III was in Ayrshire to launch the 35th anniversary celebrations of The King’s Foundation.

Manchester could soon be getting a new student accommodation block with more than 860 beds, social spaces and a gym.

Ellise Shafer The BRIT School, a free performing and creative arts school in South London that has spawned the likes of Adele, Amy Winehouse, Tom Holland, Jessie J and Raye, has earned an outstanding rating from the government agency Ofsted. This comes at a time when the school is in urgent need of funding to continue to provide world class training to the U.K.’s young creatives. After a November inspection, the BRIT School was determined to be “outstanding” in all five categories, including quality of education, behavior and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management and sixth-form provision.

The Prince of Wales tipped his hat to fellow Aston Villa supporters in a Birmingham Wetherspoons pub, ahead of their mid-week match. The Royal enthusiast requested the club organise a meet-up with some loyal fans where they converged around tables pushed together, eagerly discussing their cherished team before an away clash at Everton.

Abigail Lee “Consume Me” and “Despelote” garnered the most nominations for this year’s Independent Games Festival awards ceremony, the Game Developers Conference announced Wednesday, along with the full list of finalists. The Independent Games Festival, which recognizes independent games, and the artists behind them, is held March 26 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The event occurs during the larger Game Developers Conference, running March 17-21.

Prince William, with a radiant smile, has resumed his royal duties for his first official engagement of 2025 - just a day after wife Kate announced she was in remission from cancer.

Naman Ramachandran Japanese entertainment company Remow has greenlit a TV anime adaptation of the popular manga series “With You, Our Love Will Make It Through” (“Kimi To Koete Koi Ni Naru” or “KIMIKOE”), set to premiere in fall this year. The series, adapted from a shojo manga – a category of Japanese comics primarily targeting teenage girls and typically focusing on romance and emotional relationships – has amassed 1.2 million copies in circulation and 53 million page views on girls’ manga app Manga Mee as of December 2024. The story follows an interspecies romance between a human high school student and a beastfolk transfer student, putting a supernatural spin on the traditional high school romance formula that’s a hallmark of the shojo genre.

A student bursary award has been created in honour of journalist Nick Sheridan who died aged 32 after collapsing while out running.