The co-ord would be ideal for any summer holiday or party you have coming up.

With summer coming up, you might be on the lookout for new outfits to wear that you will keep you feeling cool while also looking stylish. If you are heading out on a shopping trip soon, you could stop off at Tesco to see what it has in stock.

The shop’s clothing brand, F&F, has just released the F&F Satin Lace Trim Asymmetric Co-ord Skirt in Brown, which has an “asymmetric hem for a modern edge”. The midi skirt has been made with a “smooth satin-fabric” and comes with a “pretty lace” trim.

The skirt can be worn with the matching F&F Satin Lace Trim Halter Neck Co-ord Top in Brown to create a chic look. The midi skirt costs £22.50 while the top costs £19.50.

The skirt and the matching halter neck top were posted to the Tesco F&F Instagram page, which currently has 891K followers. The post was captioned: “Sleek lines. Luxe texture. A statement in chocolate satin. Top, £19.50. Skirt, £22.50. #FandFClothing #StyleItOut.”

If you want to get your hands on the skirt or top, you can go to the Tesco F&F website to browse all of its pieces. You can also go in person to a Tesco store with a clothing department.

If this co-ord is not quite in line with your style, Boden has lots of other options to choose from. There is this Mia V-neck Jersey Midi Dress that would be very simple to style and reviews say is a “really lovely dress” or this Valentina Linen Skirt, which can be paired with the matching Andrea Linen Shell Top.

New Look also has plenty of summer clothes in stock. There is this Brown Hibiscus Print shirred Cami Top, which you can wear with the matching Brown Hibiscus Print Wide Leg Trousers, or this Blue Polka Dot Ruffle Trim Midi Dress that would be ideal for a summer garden party.

Having resumed at 8-8, England’s Murphy struck the first blow on Friday evening with a break of 60 to move into the lead for the first time since the end of the seventh frame.

However, in keeping with what had gone before, Higgins immediately responded with runs of 44 and 55 and then pinched the following frame after laying a snooker on the brown.

A wonderful break of 82 from Murphy ensured the players could not be separated at the mid-session interval.

The duo then conjured up plenty of drama and some superb snooker as they traded the next two frames.

Higgins constructed a 63 and Murphy then knocked in a superb century from the Scot’s break-off shot.

At that stage 12-12 looked the likely outcome to a session in which both players delivered performances brimming with resolve.

However, Higgins found an extra gear when it mattered, crafting a run of 70 and then signing off for the evening with a superb 101.

It was Norris’ first pole since Las Vegas last year, three races from the end of his championship season, and a suggestion – at the very least – that Mercedes may not have things all their own way this year, after all.

Italian Antonelli salvaged a good result for Mercedes after a difficult session.

The Mercedes car has often struggled in the heat, and the 32C temperatures did not seem to do it any favours.

But after not looking competitive for most of the session, Antonelli ensured he was the very last car to set a time in the final session, when the track would be at its grippiest, and it paid off.

Russell took the opposite route, running first and he ended up 0.4secs back from his team-mate, not an ideal result given he already has to make up nine points on Antonelli in the championship.

Ferrari and Red Bull also have major upgrade packages this weekend, and Red Bull’s seem the more effective so far.

Fifth on the grid and 0.592secs from pole – even if it is a McLaren and not a Mercedes – counts as a good result in the context of a difficult start to the season.

Hamilton, who has started the season well, was 0.379secs off Leclerc in the final reckoning.

Tadcaster Road was closed at its junction with St Helen’s Road after a crash earlier this afternoon (May 1), but it has since reopened.

“The road is expected to remain closed for several hours while emergency services deal with the incident,” said a spokesperson for the force at around 2pm today.

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Motorists are advised to avoid the area and use an alternative route, with queues mounting across the west side of the city.

A resident who wanted to remain anonymous said: “It’s really tough trying to drive around west York at the moment with lots of drivers apparently trying to get round the closure on Tadcaster Road.  

“There are long queues on Carr Lane, and heading towards the city on Holgate Road and Dalton Terrace, much more than you would normally expect at this time of day on a Friday.  

“The Carr Lane queues are not helped by people stopping alongside parked cars making it very difficult for traffic coming the other way.”

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A Peter Kay show has been evacuated mid-performance after authorities identified a potentially “suspicious bag” at the venue.

Witnesses said the comedian was taken off stage by security just 45 minutes into his show at the Utilita Arena Birmingham on Friday.

West Midland Police said they were searching the site after a 19-year-old man was taken into custody.

The force said in a statement: “We are assisting with an evacuation at the Utilita Arena in Birmingham after a potential suspicious bag was found.

“A 19-year-old man is in custody and as a precaution the site is currently subject of a search.

“We will provide further updates when we can.”

Doors opened at 6pm before the show began around 8pm. Footage on social media showed people queueing to leave their seats as part of the evacuation. A video from outside the venue showed police vehicles and flashing lights.

A spokesperson for the arena said that the evacuation was precautionary on advice of the force and ticket holders would be contacted in due course.

“Utilita Arena Birmingham has been evacuated as a precaution on the advice of West Midlands Police after a potential suspicious bag was found nearby.

“The safety and security of our customers and colleagues is our highest priority. We can confirm everyone was safely evacuated and that the venue is secure.

“Ticket holders will be contacted directly in due course.”

The arena, which can seat around 15,800 people, was set to host Mr Kay as part of his latest tour across the UK and Ireland, with all profits donated to 12 leading cancer charities, including Children with Cancer UK, Blood Cancer UK, Bowel Cancer UK, and the Teenage Cancer Trust.

At the end of an appeal hearing at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Friday, Justice Amanda Tipples said: “Having considered all the evidence before us, we cannot be sure that the damage to the complainant’s phone was caused by Mr Linehan… We therefore found Mr Linehan not guilty of the offence.”

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is the sequel to a film that launched a thousand memes.

For the film’s New York premiere in April 2026, fashion designer Evan Hirsh decided to commemorate one of the original 2006 film’s most celebrated scenes. He embroidered Meryl Streep’s infamous monologue on the fictional fashion history of the colour cerulean into the bright blue train of his coat.

In the monologue, ice-queen fashion editor Miranda Priestly (Streep) lambasts ingenue Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) for her ignorance about the blue – I mean, cerulean – colour of her sweater.

Equal parts derisive and incisive, this monologue nods to the “ballroom” tradition of reading the flaws of others, in order to deliver a devastating (and often hilarious) insult. Ballroom is an underground scene of competitive balls created by Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ communities centred on dance, fashion and performance. There, reading functions as both art form and social critique.

The monologue also encapsulates a skill practised in humanities classrooms around the world: close reading. This is the art of unpacking a detail and contextualising it within a broader history, to see how artistic choices and media landscapes come together to shape the world around us – often without us really noticing.

Although an old idea (arguably, even Aristotle was doing it), in the early decades of the 20th century, literary scholars in Britain and America began to emphasise the skills we now know as close reading. They argued that small details and specific choices come together to create the reader’s experience of the text.

In 2006, to see close reading on-screen was rare. Prior to the rise of social media, virtuosic displays of close readings were often confined to academic settings, or the occasional documentary. Now, close reading can be found everywhere in our content diets – in podcasts, YouTube videos and on TikTok.

Close reading proves an ideal technique for generating constant content. It allows creators to unpack artistic choices and the aesthetic histories of just about anything.

Some of this content presents itself as educational programming, making use of expert academic hosts (for example, in Architectural Digest’s series Every Detail or the London Review of Books’ podcast Close Readings).

These podcasts and videos form part of the history of post-war educational media, along with Open University programming that used to fill the BBC airwaves in the early hours. Contributors to this programming included Stuart Hall, whose criticism defined the field of Cultural Studies by melding historical analysis with questions of how media such as TV and film communicate with viewers.

Expertise in close reading, however, does not lie only within academia. Close readings can be found in fashion content that highlights the history of specific items, such as the 99% Invisible podcast Articles of Interest. And they’re also evident in the videos of influencers who examine the history of specific looks and the publications that shaped them.

Videos and podcasts on pop music and culture hosted by musicologists, such as Vulture’s Switched on Pop, also rely on close reading. Fan videos and tweets unpacking the work of singers like Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter perform this same skill.

Every video breaking down the difference between gen Z and millennial makeup, every outfit takedown, every analysis of a political speech – close reading is everywhere.

Close reading in The Devil Wears Prada

Let’s return to that blue sweater. While fashion editors have debunked the scene’s representation of how the fashion industry operates, that is not what is at stake for the characters. This scene dramatises the allure of shared cultural knowledge. This kind of knowledge represents what it takes to succeed at the fictional Runway magazine.

By understanding and valuing the history of a colour, Andy could become part of a glamorous in group. Now, our phones contain our own personal Miranda Priestlys, explaining how and why an object, an image, a text matters – and perhaps why we should buy it.

The Met Gala, an annual evening of fundraising for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is always a key date in the close-reading calendar. The event exemplifies what art and music has always done for its wealthy patrons and consumers: it provides an opportunity to see and be seen, to participate in the performance of connoisseurship.

Former Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, the perennially sunglasses-clad inspiration for Priestly, helped make first Monday in May (when the gala is held) a covetable event in the fashion calendar. Days after the theatrical release of the Devil Wears Prada 2 in May 2026, a flurry of content will emerge close reading the outfit choices at the gala.

The message of the cerulean monologue is that culture, and the business of culture, exempts no one. Simply because we do not care about a certain aspect of culture does not mean we can escape its influence.

Like the blue of Andy Sach’s sweater, the act of close reading “represents millions of dollars and countless jobs”, and probably more hours of your own time than you would care to admit. Perhaps most importantly, close reading is the skill that enables us to unpack art’s political statements.

So, in case you had any doubt, it’s important that you know: it’s not just blue, it’s cerulean.

Images of the Utilita Arena emptying are being shared – police are investigating a ‘suspicious bag’

Comedian Peter Kay was reportedly ‘bundled off stage’ in Birmingham as his stand-up show at the Utilita Arena was cancelled after just 45 minutes tonight (Friday).

The comedian had taken to the stage at the Utilita Arena Birmingham at 8pm, but the show was abruptly cancelled after 45 minutes.

People in the crowd said there had been ‘no explanation’ and no warning anything was wrong ahead of a member of the production team heading on to the stage at around 8.45pm to say the show wouldn’t be continuing.

Police have now confirmed they are investigating a ‘suspicious bag’ at the arena.

Images and videos being posted to social media show crowds walking out and the arena emptying. Others said they had seen police in the arena, which was then evacuated, reports Birmingham Live.

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The show, forming part of the Bolton-born funnyman’s national tour which will see all profits donated to 12 leading cancer charities, had started at 8pm.

Kay is due to play the arena at the same time again tomorrow night (Saturday, May 2). It is currently unclear why the show was pulled tonight.

BirminghamLive said it has contacted West Midlands Police and organisers for more details.

A member of the audience told BirminghamLive that everyone was asked to leave the venue by a member of the production team at around 8.45pm.

They said the show “wouldn’t be continuing”.

One fan who was at the show shared on X, formerly Twitter: “Just been evacuated out the Utilitia Arena Birmingham and Peter Kay bundled off stage,” adding a mind blown emoji.

Another posted a video of the arena being evacuated, writing: “Being evacuated from the Peter Kay gig in Birmingham. No information as to why.”

A third commented: “Peter Kay gig in Birmingham has been cancelled 45mins in. Peter bundled off stage and the venue evacuated. Police on site. Stay safe, Birmingham.”

And a fourth added: “So not the evening we expected. Evacuated from Birmingham Utilita. Peter Kay brilliant for 45 mins then some p**** has to ruin it. All out safe and quickly.”

The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester has identified several seats where MPs are prepared to step aside, triggering a by-election which could pave the way for his return to Parliament, The Guardian newspaper said.

The newspaper also reported Mr Burnham’s supporters are attempting to avoid a formal leadership challenge against the Prime Minister, and hope to kickstart a process for him to stand down after what are expected to be disastrous results for Labour in the May 7 elections.

Mr Burnham was earlier this year blocked by Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election, after the previous MP Andrew Gwynne stood down, citing health reasons.

Andy Burnham at Bolton Interchange (Image: Newsquest)

The NEC said worries about the costs of running a new Manchester mayoral elections and fear that Reform could take the mayoralty were behind the decision to block Mr Burnham.

He is now reported to be lining up an “impressive” candidate to replace him as mayor, who The Guardian said was not a sitting MP.

Mr Burnham, who served as health secretary in Gordon Brown’s government, is also said to be preparing a progressive policy platform for Government.

Constituencies across Merseyside and Greater Manchester are reportedly among those where MPs are prepared to stand aside for Mr Burnham, The Guardian said.

Earlier this week, in an interview with the BBC, Labour MP for Bootle Peter Dowd rejected suggestions he was preparing to make way for Mr Burnham.

Raducanu missed March’s Miami Open because of a viral illness and opted out of clay court events in Linz and Madrid to recover fully.

It means her last appearance was in Indian Wells at the beginning of March.

Raducanu has been relying on Alexis Canter for regular support since parting company with coach Francisco Roig after the Australian Open.

She said in Indian Wells her mind was “open” to the possibility of employing another full-time coach, but expressed reservations about the scrutiny that comes with any of her choices.

When Raducanu won the 2021 US Open without dropping a set as an 18-year-old qualifier, Richardson was in the coaching box.

He had only replaced Nigel Sears after that summer’s Wimbledon, but Raducanu and her family decided following her spectacular triumph in New York that an experienced WTA coach was required, and Richardson’s contract was not extended.

Raducanu is due to practise with German player Eva Lys in Rome on Saturday lunchtime.

As a seeded player, she would receive a first-round bye and therefore not have to play before Thursday.

There are also WTA tournaments in Strasbourg and Rabat in the week before the French Open, which rounds off the clay-court season and begins on 24 May.