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AN extra night has been added to the Highest Point Festival in September. Manchester favourites James will be headlining on Thursday, September 2 in the grounds of Williamson Park in Lancaster supported by the Lightning Seeds and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Highest Point will now run until Saturday, September 4 and feature major names including Rag’N’Bone Man, Rudimental, Clean Bandit, Becky Hill, Hybrid Minds and The Futureheads. James will play classics from their back catalogue, pl...

Photo credit: Robin Zahler Highest Point Festival has announced the full line up for this years event, which will take place in Lancashire in September, with headliners to include Rag’N’Bone Man, Rudimental, Clean Bandit, Becky Hill, Hybrid Minds and The Futureheads. Originally set to take place in May last year, the festival will now be held on Friday 3 and Saturday 4 September, in the stunning, 54-acre grounds of Williamson Park, Lancaster with a much bigger capacity and brand new ...

The Atlantic In America’s largest, richest cities, home prices and rents are going in opposite directions. March 5, 2021 Joe Munroe / Hulton Archive / Getty / The Atlantic If you think the U.S. housing market is behaving very, very strangely these days, that probably means you’re paying attention. In almost any other year, a weak economy would cripple housing. But the flash-freeze recession of 2020 corresponded with a real-estate boom, led by high-end purchases in suburbs and small towns. E...

Why is it called Pikes Peak? The history behind the name COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Every year locals and tourists flock to Pikes Peak to enjoy the mountain air and climb (or drive) up one of the more difficult 14ers in Colorado. But do you know the full story behind why its called Pikes Peak? Its believed that Pikes Peak is named after 19th-century explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike, however, he wasnt the first one to name the mountain. He mightve been the first white American explorer i...

Aging fleet of soviet planes operated by air koryo, north koreas only airline, still flying despite sanctions, with regular international flights to russia and china. our flight takes us 400 miles north of pyongyang to a place cnn has never been allowed before. as a western journalist, even setting foot here is extraordinary. samjiyon county, right along the chinese border is a mountainous region. north koreas nuclear test site is in the very next province. were not here for nuclear tests. were ...

Volcano. state propaganda glorifies the kim family for their mt. paektu bloodline. north korean society prizes racial purity. a paektu bloodline is considered a noble heritage, tied to the ancient rulers, ancient, legendary kings of the korean peninsula. their tombs are national landmarks visited by droves of north korean citizens. but the ultimate journey is to the mountain itself. still hours away on bumpy dirt roads.