Day: January 11, 2025

UK News: Viagogo and StubHub platforms to be hit by cap of face value plus 30% or less

The price at which tickets for live events can be resold is to be capped under “gamechanging” proposals put forward by the government to crack down on touting in the sector.

In a move hailed by music industry figures, the culture minister, Lisa Nandy, has launched a consultation that she said would end the “misery” of fans being exploited by touts, some of whom have made huge profits by selling hundreds of tickets a year. Continue reading…
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UK News: From a spectacular theatrical opening to Afrobeat brass bands via David Hockney and Wallace and Gromit, the city has big plans

* Bradford city of culture: five events to look out for in 2025

Below-zero temperatures are forecast at City Park on Friday evening but the warmth radiating from Bradford’s mighty UK city of culture opening will undoubtedly put everyone in the mood to celebrate.

The city was right in the centre of a badly timed amber weather warning this week and suffered a deluge of snow that the council has “been proper grafting” to clear, said the show’s dramaturg, Kirsty Taylor. Continue reading…
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Actors Samuel West and Paapa Essiedu join calls for urgent action to protect and expand access to arts

World-leading drama schools in England are facing a financial crisis that threatens to turn back the clock, shutting down opportunities for talented young people from diverse and less privileged backgrounds, according to leading figures in the arts.

The warning came after one of the most celebrated drama schools in the country, Bristol Old Vic theatre school (BOVTS), which opened in 1946 with the support of Laurence Olivier, has revealed it is closing all undergraduate courses from September. Postgraduate courses will continue. Continue reading…
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Train managers on west coast mainline to take action from 12 January to 25 May in dispute over rest-day working

Passengers on Great Britain’s west coast mainline have been warned of disruption to Avanti services on every Sunday from this weekend to the end of May.

Train managers represented by the the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) have said they will strike on every Sunday from 12 January to 25 May 2025, in a dispute over their pay for working on rest days. Continue reading…
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