Organisers said more than 640,000 people had visited the exhibition since it opened in June 2025. Due to its popularity, it has been extended twice and will now run until 27 September 2026. Sharon Osbourne said it was fitting that the throne should be displayed in the city where her husband was born and raised….

A video installation at the National Portrait Gallery has been withdrawn after a row over Sir Winston Churchill’s role in the Bengal famine. The 40-minute video by artist Helen Cammock at the central London gallery had referred to “the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill” in the 1943 famine. It prompted an…

Two years later, he provided invaluable career advice to Bruce Springsteen, who had recently signed to Columbia for the princely sum of $25,000. Watching the musician perform an early showcase, Davis noted that he rarely stepped away from the microphone, and offered a suggestion. “I said, ‘Don’t do it if it’s not natural for you,…

Drop-in outdoor performances and dementia-friendly concerts will be exempt from the ban. Staff will be on standby to assist those who aren’t sure how to silence their phones, or any scheduled alerts or alarms. Nicola Benedetti is confident that the festival can return to its once phone-free existence. “Views on this have been widely and…