Patrick Clarke
, January 29th, 2021 12:00
The new year brings a continuation of old miseries, but a resurgence of extraordinarily good music. Here s our guide to the best albums and tracks of a particularly strong month
I m not sure why, but in a year so far as disastrous as the last, in which musicians fortunes continue to plummet to the point that total collapse looms as a real possibility, the art they ve been releasing sounds stronger than ever.
From Sleaford Mods blistering career-best new album, to anti-colonialist duo Divide And Dissolve s unbelievably powerful cascades of crushing doom, to The Body s latest head-melting extremity, music has provided plenty of necessary catharsis.
An 86-year-old woman was left in tears after being told she would have to travel from her Telford home to Birmingham, Chester or Bristol for her Covid-19 vaccination following confusion with the roll-out of the programme.
Charlie s role in the County Lines drug operation has been exposed in
Hollyoaks dramatic New Year episodes, which saw the year-long storyline come to a head.
Drug dealer Jordan Price has now been killed off after a frightening showdown with Charlie and Ella Richardson at The Hutch.
Digital Spy recently caught up with Jessica Fox, who plays Nancy, to hear what s next for the storyline.
How exciting was it to film the New Year episode after a 12-month build-up? I think it was a relief, to be honest! 2020 couldn t have been a more difficult year to have a flashforward episode, but we did it and we managed to connect all of the dots.
20 Dec 2020
“Asian” rape gang ringleader Ahdel ‘Eddie’ Ali has been released back onto the streets just eight years into a notionally 26-year term for raping and pimping girls as young as 13.
32-year-old Ali was sentenced to a superficially impressive (by the standards of British justice, at least) 26-year extended sentence, including 18 years’ immediate custody and an additional eight years on licence after release but as with most British sentences, the headline numbers haven proven misleading, with rights to automatic early release on licence and other anti-prison provisions kicking in well before he had served even a single decade behind bars.