18April 2021
The UK is set to host its first non-socially distanced gig, as part of a government pilot to help prepare for the return of live music. Taking place on May 2, the event will see a crowd of five thousand people gather in Liverpool’s Sefton Park.
Besides not being required to stick to social distancing guidelines, attendees won’t have to wear face coverings. They will, however, have to take a rapid COVID test at a local testing centre, and provide proof of a negative result to gain entry.
The gig headlined by Blossoms will trial the role such facilities could play in the return of large-scale live events, says the Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport, via the BBC. Attendees will also take a test after the concert to help assess the safety of live music events.
Portrait chipped in No10 among artworks damaged in UK s corridors of power
A portrait of Lord Byron’s daughter was damaged in 10 Downing Street, and a landscape scratched in the Chancellor s flat
A painting of Ada Lovelace was damaged while David Cameron was in No10
Credit: Hulton Archive
Portraits chipped in David Cameron’s Number 10 and cracked with flip charts in ministers offices are among the paintings damaged while hanging in the corridors of power.
Valuable artworks forming Government Art Collection are displayed in the UK’s ministries, embassies and residences to project British soft power.
But works displayed in the Westminster’s most esteemed offices have suffered thousands of pounds worth of damage since 2015, documents have revealed