Alicia Vikander, Jo Hartley and Naomi Ackie join BAFTA EE Rising Star Award jury

Alicia Vikander, Jo Hartley and Naomi Ackie join BAFTA EE Rising Star Award panel to select the 2021 shortlist By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 11:10 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 13:04 GMT, 20 January 2021 A trio of actresses have been added to the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award panel to select the … Read more

ADRIAN THRILLS: Rising star Pearl’s new album is a perfect tonic to magic away the blues 

PEARL CHARLES: Magic Mirror (Kanine)  Rating: Verdict: Feel-good Californian pop WHY DON’T WE: The Good Times And The Bad Ones (Atlantic)  Verdict: Catchy boy-band harmonies Rating: PASSENGERS: Songs For The Drunk and Broken Hearted (Cooking Vinyl) Verdict: Pithy character studies  Rating: The start of a new year is traditionally the time to pinpoint pop’s up-and-coming … Read more

Deposits are falling, rates rising and prices uncertain. Should I buy my first home during Covid?

Whatever way you look at it, the property market had an exceptional year in 2020. It went from trundling along quite nicely in the first three months of the year, to a complete three-month shutdown during lockdown – during which time dire predictions were made about a coming crash.  Against the odds, house prices surged … Read more

Britain welcomes Winter Solstice: Thousands watch live stream of Sun rising above Stonehenge

Thousands have welcomed in the shortest day of 2020 this morning, tuning in to watch the Winter Solstice sunrise over Stonehenge on live stream as visitors are banned from the site.    The shortest day of the year was met with poor weather, driving rain and howling winds at the historic landmark in Salisbury, usually packed … Read more

Surrey borough with fastest rising coronavirus rate escapes county-wide Tier Three

The only borough of Surrey where coronavirus infections fell last week will be forced into a Tier Three local lockdown from Saturday despite the part of the county where cases are rising fastest escaping the tougher rules. Runnymede, the borough that contains commuter towns Chertsey and Virginia Water, saw its rate of coronavirus cases per … Read more

Rising number of Covid-19 cases are set to dash hopes of locked down areas being given more freedom

Hopes that some regions might be moved out of the highest coronavirus tiers ahead of Christmas look set to be dashed today. The overwhelming majority of areas are expected to remain in their current level of restrictions when the results of the first review are announced. Despite hopes that some places such as Leeds and … Read more

Beyonce presents Chloe X Halle with Billboard Women In Music Rising Star Award

She nurtured them to fame by signing them to her Parkwood label in 2016. And this Thursday night Beyonce presented a Billboard Women In Music Rising Star Award to the sister-act of Chloe X Halle. The 39-year-old pop diva showered praise on her old proteges, gushing in her speech: ‘Ladies, I am so, so proud of … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Hospital Covid admissions begin rising again after lockdown relaxation

Here, MailOnline answers all the questions about the jab, including who will get it first, how much it costs and where people will be vaccinated. What could the logistical challenges of delivering it be? Both the Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned that transporting and storing Pfizer’s breakthrough jab ‘won’t be … Read more

Geology: Hot rock rising beneath central Greenland is melting the ice from below

Flow of hot rocks rising from the core–mantle boundary beneath central Greenland is melting the ice from below and contributing to sea-level rise, study finds Experts from Japan mapped the plume of molten rock rising under Greenland To do this, they analysed the speed of seismic waves travelling beneath the Earth The plume rises from … Read more

South Korea records a spike in Covid infections with 386 new cases as Asia battles rising cases

Rising cases of Covid in Asia are causing alarm and could lead to harsh new measures, months after many of its countries were praised for their handling of the pandemic. South Korea, which has been heralded as the model for controlling the crisis, reported 386 new daily cases on Saturday. The resurgence could force authorities … Read more