Step back in time and relive the 80s and 90s this weekend.

Ant and Dec at Kiss nightclub, Bolton in July, 1994. Picture by the Bolton Evening News (Image: NQ)

The Georgian House in Blackrod is putting on the themed night on Saturday night to run into Sunday.

Dust off your neon leg warmers and acid-washed jeans for a night filled with the greatest hits frm the 80s and 90s and enjoy a nostaligic trip down memory lane.

The party starts at 7pm and ends at 1am.

For tickets and more information visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/80s-and-90s-night-tickets-1978826805243?

The Angry Brigade (Image: Agency)

THEATRE

The Angry Brigade is set in 1970s Britain during a period of Tory cuts, high unemployment, and increasing inequality, focusing on the hunt for the anarchist group “The Angry Brigade” by a special police squad.

The play contrasts the contrasting perspectives of the establishment and the young urban guerrillas, exploring themes of political engagement, rebellion, and the human cost of pursuing a radical vision for a fairer world.

The play for those aged 14 and over will show on Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2 at the Octagon.

For tickets visit the Octagon website.

Eagley Band (Image: Supplied)

CONCERT

Music from some of the best-known musicals ever is on offer when Eagley Community Band and Eagley Community Choir stage their Spring Concert this Saturday (April 25).

Expect everything from Miss Saigon, to Anything Goes, and Gershwin and Matt Monro to Bon Jovi and Mariah Carey at the event at The Bridge Church, Bradford Street Bolton.

There will be plenty of audience participation at Eagley at the Bridge which runs from 7.30pm to 9.45pm with refreshments available.

Tickets are £5 each from Booth’s Music on Churchgate in the town centre, tel 01204 522908 or pay at the door.

Mass Observation Please note copyright credit requested by BoltonCouncil (Image: Bolton Council)

TALK:

Talk on Mass Observation in Blackpool.

In the 1930s, Blackpool was Britain’s most popular seaside resort, attracting thousands of millworkers from Bolton and other Lancashire cotton towns.

The strange and wonderful world of 1930s Blackpool is captured in the photographs of Humphrey Spender and Julian Trevelyan, taken for Mass Observation.

This talk explores what Mass Observation discovered when they followed local holidaymakers to Blackpool.

It will take place oin Tuesday 5 May, 1 pm in the Lecture Theatre, Bolton Central Library

Free, no need to book

Funfair (Image: Unsplash)

FUNFAIR

A children’s fun fair will set up at Bolton Cricket Club on Green Lane this weekend, April 25 and 26, open daily from 1pm till 7pm all rides £2.

Trigger warning: This article contains discussion of topics including self-harm and suicide.

EastEnders fans were left in tears after a devastating visit to Walford on Thursday (April 23), which saw Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara) sectioned after attempt to take his own life.

The popular character has been struggling with his mental health for months, with Priya Nandra-Hart (Sophie Khan Levy) determined to get him the help he needs after she discovered that he had been self-harming.

The situation escalated rapidly earlier this week when Ravi – convinced that his enemies were out to get him – obtained new locks for the flat he shares with his partner and their kids Nugget (Juhaim Rasul Choudhury) and Avani (Aaliyah James).

Priya was concerned when Ravi wouldn’t let her leave, as were Avani and Nugget when they stumbled upon the new locks.

Ravi broke down when confronted over the bruises on Priya’s arm, which he’d unknowingly inflicted during a nightmare, and he subsequently confirmed that he was the one who accidentally attacked Nugget.

With emotions at an all-time high, Priya successfully managed to secure her freedom by telling Ravi that they’d leave Walford together but a crash ensued on the way to the hospital, leaving everyone in need of medical attention.

Ravi was devastated and thus he left the hospital and made his way back to the Square, where he stood on the edge of a bridge, attempting to take his own life.

Priya watched in devastation before attempting to talk Ravi down, making him see that he is still very much loved. Nugget, meanwhile, raced to support his dad, begging him ‘don’t go’ in emotional scenes.

Ravi reconsidered and broke down, hugging his loved ones with all his might. The police subsequently arrived and sectioned Ravi, who will next week receive a diagnosis of complex PTSD.

The episode in question received praise from fans, particularly the performance from Ravi star Aaron Thiara, who was nothing short of incredible.

Metro reader Sharon saying that they ‘actually cried’ when watching the episode. ‘He is a great actor, and its a great storyline, mens mental health isnt addressed enough.’

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Olwyn added: ‘This had me in tears. So real’, while Linda said: ‘This has broke my heart to watch, brilliant acting by Ravi and his family.’

‘The acting by Aaron Thiara was exceptional,’ said Barbara. ‘The emotional scenes showing Ravi’s mental health battle had me in tears’.

Debbie felt that the episode proves that ‘EastEnders has ‘really lifted their game’.

‘The storylines are great and shows the versatility of the actors,’ they wrote. ‘Seeing this side of Ravi is upsetting and a true representation of a person struggling.’

It was a sentiment that Anne agreed with, commenting: ‘Its great this storyline allowed the actor to show his talent. Not an easy part to play and must have been extremely difficult and draining for him.’

Next week, Ravi will begin therapy sessions following his diagnosis.

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The police had ‘damning evidence’ against the 26-year-old

A man who supplied drugs in different counties has been jailed. Artur Shabani, 26, was at his home in High Street, Eye, when Cambridgeshire Police searched his property on March 2.

Officers had received information about cocaine being supplied to South Lincolnshire and Rutland, and an operation was being run from Eye. At his home, officers found nine mobile phones in Shabani’s bedroom, as well as a small amount of cocaine and drug dealing paraphernalia elsewhere in the property.

Mobile phone analysis revealed bulk messages related to selling cocaine. The investigation also uncovered CCTV evidence that showed Shabani topping up one of the dealer phones, which was an unregistered pay-as-you-go device.

On Tuesday (April 21), Shabani was jailed to 36 months in prison after appearing at Cambridge Crown Court. He admitted to being concerned in the supply of cocaine.

DC Jenny Hargreaves said: “The evidence against Shabani was damning, giving him little option but to plead guilty. I’m pleased he has been brought to justice, and this county lines operation selling cocaine in Rutland and South Lincolnshire disrupted.

“County lines can often be linked to other offences such as criminal exploitation and the substances they deal trap people in addiction. We will continue our efforts to identify those involved in supplying drugs and bring them before the courts.”

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In a message on X via the official supporters’ club,, external Millwall said the “serious misuse of a registered club badge” created a “false and damaging image of the club”.

Millwall said the council confirmed any remaining copies of the booklet they have will be destroyed and no more copies will be made and distributed.

“The club is still considering its legal position on the matter and are unable to comment further,” it said.

The Paul Canoville Foundation said it was aware of the image, which was widely shared on social media, but stressed it had no involvement in the material’s content, saying it was “not produced by, commissioned by, or approved” by the foundation or Canoville.

“Our involvement in the associated programme was limited solely to Paul’s personal appearance; meeting students and sharing his lived experience,” the foundation’s chief executive officer Raphael Frascogna said in a statement., external

“At no stage were we shown, consulted on, or asked to approve the content of the booklet, including any illustrations within it.”

Frascogna added the illustration does depict a real incident Canoville experienced when playing for Chelsea reserves against Millwall reserves in the 1980s, “in which he was subjected to serious racial abuse by a number of individuals wearing Ku Klux Klan-style white hoods”.

Former winger Canoville, now 64, played for Chelsea for five years from 1981 and scored 15 goals in 103 games, later retiring because of a knee injury aged 25 after a short spell at Reading.

Millwall are third in the Championship this season, level on points with second-placed Ipswich, who are in the automatic promotion places.

Astronomers have found a Jupiter-like planet several light years away which probably smells of urine.

Epsilon Indi Ab has an ammonia atmosphere with clouds of water floating above the surface – and ammonia and water are the two primary components of urine.

The pungent planet may not be top of the list for any colonisation plans by Elon Musk, but it has intrigued scientists studying it with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Elisabeth Matthews, from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, is the lead author of a new study.

She said: ‘JWST is finally allowing us to study solar-system analogue planets in detail. If we were aliens, several light years away, and looking back at the Sun, JWST is the first telescope that would allow us to study Jupiter in detail.

‘For studying Earth in detail, we would need much more advanced telescopes, though.’

The team studied Epsilon Indi Ab using Webb’s mid-infrared instrument.

They found it is around 7.6 times the mass of Jupiter but a similar size and orbits its star at a much greater distance than most exoplanets studied so far, giving it a relatively low temperature of between –70C and +20C.

The discovery of the clouds of water were unexpected and not typical of many existing models of exoplanet atmospheres, as they are complex to simulate.

James Mang of the University of Texas at Austin said: ‘It’s a great problem to have, and it speaks to the immense progress we’re making thanks to JWST.

‘What once seemed impossible to detect is now within reach, allowing us to probe the structure of these atmospheres, including the presence of clouds.

‘This reveals new layers of complexity that our models are now beginning to capture, and opens the door to even more detailed characterisation of these cold, distant worlds.’

NASA’s planned Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, expected to launch later this decade, may be able to detect such reflective clouds more directly.

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A 51-year-old man died during a Cathay Pacific flight from Manchester to Hong Kong on Friday morning – this is a breaking story

A 51-year-old man has died during a Cathay Pacific flight from Manchester to Hong Kong.

The passenger lost consciousness during flight CX216, which departed Manchester Airport at 11.04am HKT on Thursday and landed at Hong Kong International Airport at 6.53am on Friday (11.53pm BST on Thursday). Hong Kong police said they received a report at around 6.15am local time on Friday that a passenger had collapsed on board the flight, according to the Hong Kong Free Press.

An autopsy is currently underway to determine the cause of death, the outlet reports.

In a statement to the South China Morning Post, a spokesperson for Hong Kong’s flag carrier said that “the crew and a doctor on board had provided immediate first aid to the victim”. The spokesperson added that an ambulance was called and paramedics boarded the plane upon landing.

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It comes just days after doubts were raised over Jimmy Bullard’s attendance, following an explosive row during filming with Adam Thomas.

Although Jimmy has now confirmed he will be appearing on tonight’s (April 24) ITV show, when viewers will vote for their I’m a Celeb ‘ultimate legend’, sadly, Beverley Callard will not be there.

The Coronation Street favourite who was diagnosed with breast cancer in February issued an update to fans on her TikTok account yesterday (April 23).

Why is Beverley Callard not attending I’m a Celebrity final tonight?

In the caption alongside a video message, she shared: “A last minute change of plans…Absolutely gutted but I know it’s for the best. Resting up and getting well is more important at the moment.”

Beverley, who currently lives in Dublin, went on to explain: “Yesterday I should have flown over to England to get ready for the I’m a Celeb final which is tomorrow at 7.30pm.

“I was so excited and looking forward to it, and on medical advice I can’t go.

“So I’m absolutely gutted, I was dying to see them all, and it would have been brilliant, but I can’t go.”

Health professionals have told Beverley that attending the I’m a Celebrity South Africa final would be “too long a day” as she recovers from surgery.

She continued: “Flying there and you know, very late night… so here I am.”

However, the soap star will still be featuring in the live ITV final this evening and reuniting with her fellow campmates via Zoom, to “chat to everyone”.

Beverley added: “I’ve got to make the best of a bad job but I am resting, I am doing as I’m told, thanks to everybody.”

The actress was advised by medics to leave camp in the last week of the ITV reality show.

Beverley told the other celebrities she “didn’t feel well” after having “a bit of a funny turn”.

As she tearfully said her goodbyes, the 69-year-old said she was “absolutely gutted and wanted to finish” her time on the all-star show, and that she “wanted to prove that older women could do it”.

Since announcing her diagnosis of early-stage breast cancer, Beverley has documented her treatment on social media and has recently undergone surgery to remove the cancer.

Who is in the final of I’m a Celebrity South Africa 2026?

The four celebrities who have made it to Friday night’s final are Olympian Sir Mo Farah, former football manager Harry Redknapp, actor and DJ Craig Charles, and actor Adam Thomas.

Scarlett Moffatt just missed out and said she was “gutted” to become the latest campmate to be evicted during Thursday’s episode.

The Gogglebox star learnt she would be leaving the ITV programme after she came last in a trial, telling hosts Ant and Dec: “I felt like I was so close. I was the last girl standing.”

The challenge saw the celebrities have to count coloured balls as they rolled down a tube in front of them while they were showered with maggots, cockroaches, crickets and mealworms.

The five contestants were then asked how many blue balls there had been and were told that whoever’s estimate was the furthest from the correct figure would be evicted.

Thursday night’s instalment also saw the celebrities take part in the Cyclone challenge, which saw them have to clamber along a water slide to reach stars while being pelted with huge balls and sprayed with high-pressure hoses.

The group won the task, which resulted in them all receiving phone messages from their loved ones at home.

They also enjoyed a breakfast of 10 eggs between them after successfully catching them from a large “chicken” roosting in a tree above their camp.

The final of I’m a Celebrity South Africa will be shown from 7.30pm tonight on ITV1, STV, ITVX and STV Player.

Let us know which celebrity campmate you will be voting for to win, in the comments below.

Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? As a researcher in visual culture, I find myself returning to this question again and again as I examine films, TV shows, documentaries, visual novels and artworks.

We know that the explosion occurred on April 26 1986 at 1:23am due to a safety test gone wrong, and that the radioactive contamination spread across the exclusion zone and far beyond, reaching other parts of Europe. Beyond these facts, however, things get shaky. Although the official death toll was, according to the World Health Organization’s 2005 report, less than 50, the real number is considered to be much higher, with thousands affected by the long-term consequences of exposure.

Radioactive contamination is what made this technological disaster so extraordinary. While many people may not be interested in decay chains or wavelengths, popular culture renders radioactive pollution immediately legible.

At the same time, these representations often operate in the space between historical fact and dramatisation. Although many can be criticised for exaggerating an already fantastical disaster, that dramatisation is also part of what keeps audiences engaged and ensures that Chernobyl remains alive in our cultural awareness.

Here are five of my favourite pop culture depictions of the Chernobyl disaster, that I believe give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster entailed.

1. Chernobyl (2019)

This series is one of the best ways to understand or be introduced to Chernobyl. Over the course of five episodes, HBO’s drama series brought viewers through the social, political and bureaucratic aspects of the disaster.

Following the scientist Valery Legasov (Jared Harris), as well as the story of firefighter’s wife Lyudmilla Ignatenko (Jessie Buckley), the series does a great job at narrating the disaster in compelling ways. It is visually well constructed with attention to every minor detail.

The series finds ingenious ways to visualise invisible radiation, while scientists’ struggle to force the truth into the open is heart-wrenching enough to hold the viewer through all five episodes.

2. Chernobylite (2021)

The horror indie video game Chernobylite allows players to wander freely around Chernobyl’s exclusion zone – one of the most radioactively contaminated areas on Earth.

With time and climate change, the structures and buildings within the zone are at increasing risk of disappearing from both wildfires or age that leaves buildings crumbling. In an effort to preserve the zone, the creators of Chernobylite began to 3D scan it. Left with a virtual map, they decided to turn their project into a video game.

In Chernobylite, players can roam freely and uncover the mystery of the zone. Although embellished with green glowing crystals and monsters, the game does offer a setting that allows you to walk around and experience the zone while scientists tell you information about the disaster.

This game is a wonderful way to experience the zone at a distance. It is photo-realistic and allows the players to really locate some of the famous landmarks of the zone (such as the Ferris wheel or the monument for the firefighters).

3. Chernobyl Abyss (2021)

This Russian disaster film follows fictional firefighter, Alexey Karpushin (Danila Kozlovsky) through some of the challenges in the immediate aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.

To save his son from radiation poisoning, Karpushin agrees to become a “liquidator” in exchange for having him sent to a care facility in Switzerland. Around 600,000 military personnel were drafted as liquidators – sent to high-radiation zones (often wearing inadequate protection) to clear radioactive debris and manage contaminated waste.

While it’s not a perfect film, it gives a good impression of the emotional and individual toll of the disaster.

4. The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015)

Amid the tragic and often action-driven representations of Chernobyl, this documentary feels hopeful rather than bleak. It portrays life in the exclusion zone (some people have returned to live on their generational land) in all its complexity.

More importantly, it’s a reminder that while the zone may be reduced to a story for those of us watching from afar, for the people who live there, it remains a home.

5. YouTube

Before the escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022, the zone was frequently visited. In fact, after the release of HBO’s Chernobyl series, tourism allegedly increased by 40%.

In a space where souvenirs like a stone from the ground are illegal to pick up, many instead captured the zone through their camera lens. Viewing videos from tourists and “stalkers” (illegal explorers) on YouTube, offers one of the best ways to gain insights into how the Chernobyl disaster has affected the land.

Many of these tourists capture the samoesely (resettlers), wildlife and guides who talk about the zone and what the disaster means to them.

It comes after the EU has issued a warning that passengers face a ‘very serious crisis’

Airlines have announced they are cancelling and cutting back flights to and from the UK amidst massive rises in jet fuel costs and fears over shortages. The BBC has reported that 6 carriers so far which fly to the UK have said they’re going to operate fewer flights.

It comes after the EU has issued a warning that Europe faces a “very serious crisis” as aviation fuel supplies begin to dwindle due to the conflict in Iran, and holidaymakers may need to alter their summer travel plans.

“Unfortunately, it’s very likely that many people’s holidays will be affected, either by flight cancellations or very, very expensive tickets,” Dan Jorgensen, the EU energy commissioner, told Sky News. “Even if we do everything we can do, if the jet fuel is not there, then it’s not there.”

Jorgensen added: “[Currently] it is primarily a crisis of prices and not yet a crisis of supply, but unfortunately we cannot be sure to prevent a crisis of supply, especially on jet fuel in the future, if the crisis continues.”

The International Energy Agency has cautioned that significant supply problems could emerge within the next five to six weeks. Airlines are already implementing measures to curb demand: the Lufthansa Group, among Europe’s largest airline operators, has confirmed the scrapping of 20,000 flights over the coming months. Meanwhile, other carriers are hiking ticket prices on long-distance routes to offset rising fuel costs.

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The price of flights has been rising since the start of the conflict in the Middle East, a worry for anyone planning a summer holiday.

Which airlines are cancelling flights?

Airlines that serve the UK which plan to operate fewer flights.

• KLM
• Air Canada
• Asiana Airlines
• Delta Airlines
• Lufthansa
• SAS

The following companies have said they don’t plan to change their schedules:

• British Airways owner IAG
• EasyJet
• Jet2Holidays

Flight prices

While some airlines have cut back on the number of flights to save money, others have said they will start charging more per passenger or will put up charges for luggage.

These include:

• Air France-KLM
• Indigo
• Pakistan International Airlines
• Thai Airways
• Turkish Airlines-Sun Express
• Virgin Atlantic

Rory Boland, travel editor at consumer publication Which?, says overall cancellations will be a very small proportion of the millions of flights in and out of the UK, and the changes will be targeted on routes where there are multiple flights a day so that passengers can be rebooked on to an earlier or later flight. Low-cost Spanish regional airline Volotea has come under fire for saying it will add a surcharge to tickets it has already sold and is being challenged by local consumer rights groups.

Holiday giant Tui said the Iran war cost it around 40 million euros (£34.8 million) last month after it was forced to repatriate thousands of holidaymakers and staff.

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Europe’s largest travel operator cut its profit forecast and suspended revenue guidance as a result, sending it shares lower.

The company is among travel firms to have been significantly disrupted by the conflict in the Middle East, which began at the end of February. It is also among airline firms to face pressure from a surge in jet fuel prices after the conflict pushed up the price of oil.

On Wednesday, Tui told shareholders that it had to absorb 40 million euros worth of costs in March due to “repatriation efforts and related operational disruptions”.

Following the start of the war, Tui repatriated around 5,000 passengers from two cruise ships anchored in ports in Abu Dhabi.A lot of the industry’s jet fuel supplies come from the Gulf region, and most of it passes through the Strait of Hormuz, which has effectively been closed to shipping since the start of March.