The film is being released by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which will also release the only known surviving footage of the competition’s first-ever winner, offering fans a rare glimpse into Eurovision history.

The contest, which began on May 24, 1956, has grown into the world’s largest live music event.

To mark the occasion, organisers will release a tribute film featuring some of the most moving moments from seven decades of the competition.

Eurovision Song Contest to release film marking 70th anniversary

The film will be set to Uber Die Brücke Geh’n by Ingrid Peters, Germany’s 1986 entry, and will include footage from the 1950s through to this year’s contest, including Bulgaria’s first-ever win last Saturday.

It will premiere on the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel on May 24.

The EBU has also teamed up with Swiss broadcaster RSI to restore the only known surviving footage of the contest’s first-ever winner, Lys Assia, singing Refrain.

The video, filmed by Vincenzo Vicari, shows the singer on stage at Teatro Kursaal in Lugano, Switzerland.

Chris Fox, a senior producer on Eurovision’s digital team who worked on the restoration, said: “Preserving the history of the Eurovision Song Contest is something very close to my heart.

“I’m proud that the EBU was able to commission this restoration so that fans can enjoy Lys Assia’s winning reprise in the best possible quality for years to come.”

The EBU has also launched the Eurofan Voice initiative, a survey inviting Eurovision fans to share feedback and help shape the future of the contest.

Martin Green, director of the Eurovision Song Contest, said: “For 70 years, the Eurovision Song Contest has shown what’s possible when public service broadcasters come together with a shared purpose: to create moments of joy, emotion and connection that transcend borders.

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“From a small theatre in Lugano in 1956 to stadiums and screens across the globe today, the Eurovision Song Contest continues to evolve while remaining true to its founding spirit – bringing audiences together through music.”

Fans can watch the 70th anniversary tribute film on Eurovision’s official YouTube channel from May 24.

Will you be watching the special Eurovision Song Contest film? Let us know in the comments.

Drivers are being warned to expect delays with problems on two major routes as drivers head out to enjoy the sunny weather.

With temperatures in the high 20s today, thousands of people are expected to take to the roads to head for beaches and countryside spots and attractions as Wales prepares for soaring temperatures.

There are two incidents on major routes right now. One has part blocked the M4 near J25 for Caerleon. The other has shut the A40 both ways through Nantgaredig. For the biggest stories in Wales first sign up to our daily newsletter here

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Pictures show a missing fence panel and tyre tracks in the grass next at the Portland Hub, on Gardener Avenue in Willington.

Debris can be seen next to the broken fence panel and a stretch of grass churned up.

The car involved has since been removed.

Durham Police and the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) have been contacted for a statement about this incident.

Damage to the fence at Portland Hub, Willington (Image: CHRIS BOOTH/NORTHERN ECHO)

Damage to the fence at Portland Hub, Willington (Image: CHRIS BOOTH/NORTHERN ECHO)

Lawrence Shankland has been the subject of Rangers interest for a number of years and the Ibrox side are now reportedly confident they will finally land the Hearts captain

Rangers have tabled a two-year contract – with an option for a third – as they attempt to lure Hearts captain Lawrence Shankland to Ibrox for nothing. The Mirror’s sister title in Scotland, the Daily Record, reports Gers bosses are in advanced negotiations with the Scotland forward over a sensational switch to his boyhood club.

And they are rushing to trigger a clause in the 30-year-old’s deal that would enable him to depart the capital club he steered to the verge of championship success this season without Hearts pocketing a single penny. Shankland penned a three-year contract when Derek McInnes convinced him to remain at Gorgie last summer – but crucially he secured a break clause at the conclusion of the opening year that permits him to tear up his arrangement and head elsewhere.

Now Gers bosses are seeking to capitalise and remain confident they will finally capture the Jambos skipper after years of gossip and conjecture. Discussions are not yet finalised but Rangers are pushing strongly to eventually secure the signature of the devoted fan.

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The development will arrive as a devastating blow to McInnes and the Hearts support, who witnessed Shankland bag 20 goals to carry the Tynecastle outfit to within a whisker of the Premiership crown before enduring a heartbreaking final-day defeat at Parkhead to eventual champions Celtic.

It remains to be seen whether Hearts will respond with a rival bid but they won’t have long with Rangers eager to wrap up the deal swiftly before the break clause lapses. Time is also running out for Shankland, who is currently on holiday and due to link up with Steve Clarke’s Scotland squad this week ahead of Saturday’s Curacao friendly at Hampden, before the 26-man party departs for the World Cup.

Former Gers manager Russell Martin had the opportunity to snap up Shankland on a free transfer last summer but declined.

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Sky has upgraded its Ultimate TV and Sky Sports bundle to now include HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+, discovery+ and Hayu, as well as 135 channels and full Sky coverage of the Premier League and EFL.

Sky broadcasts more than 1,400 live matches across the Premier League, EFL and more with at least 215 live from the top flight alongside Formula 1, darts and golf.

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Now it seems new boss Danny Rohl is poised to rectify that mistake, having made Scotland’s 2024 player of the year his top target for this summer.

He appears set to be the first of several Scottish signings, with chairman Andrew Cavenagh confirming last week that the club intends to recruit more Scottish players in the coming weeks.

A woman was allegedly dragged to her death by her neighbour’s pit bulls as her partner desperately tried to stop the ‘brutal’ attack.

Jodi Cowan, 50, is understood to have been attacked as she walked her dog around the area where she lived near Cocoa, Florida, in the early hours of May 19, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office’s Animal Services unit.

Her partner, Donnell Smith, told local NBC affiliate WESH that he had returned home at around 1am and found that Cowan and the dog were not there.

He then claimed he heard a distant cry for help and saw the silhouette of two dogs dragging someone along the road. He ran to help her and found her lying in a pool of blood, covered in dog bites.

Smith told the outlet: ‘I pulled my knife out, you know, just swinging with it one hand and holding the blood with the other, trying to stop her from bleeding.’

He then called 911 and his partner was airlifted to hospital, where she later died.

‘It was brutal,’ Smith continued.

‘Seeing the same woman I’ve loved for the last 25-30 years just ripped apart by two animals was just… I’ll never get that image out of my mind.’

Cowan’s father, Martin, told Florida Today: ‘I’m not going to throw stones, but it’s tragic. I have lost my daughter. She was my little girl.’

One of Cowan’s neighbours, Bruce Midkiff, caught the alleged attack on his surveillance camera and handed the video over to police.

He told the Daily Mail that residents of the neighbourhood had had concerns about two pit bulls living nearby, and that multiple reports had been made to the sheriff’s office.

He claimed that in previous incidents last month, one of the dogs cornered his wife in her car and bit another neighbour.

Another neighbour, Scott Chase, told Florida Today that the dogs had made him ‘afraid to leave his house’. ‘They just keep getting loose,’ he said, adding that he had complained about the animals twice.

Smith told WESH that he thinks Cowan was attacked after the pit bulls went after the couple’s smaller dog.

He said his partner may have attempted to rescue her pet before the dogs turned on her.

An investigation into the attack is ongoing.

Owners of violent or dangerous dogs in Florida face serious penalties. If a dog that has previously been declared dangerous attacks someone unprovoked, the owner is considered to have committed a first-degree misdemeanour.

If the attack causes severe injury or death, owners may face second-degree felony charges, fines, and the euthanasia of their pet.

Metro has contacted the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office’s Animal Services unit for comment.

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Jeremy Clarkson is finally selling wine at his Cotswolds pub after relaxing a rule he’s enforced since it opened.

When the 65-year-old opened his Oxfordshire watering hole The Farmer’s Dog in August 2024, he revealed it would “serve exclusively British” items, including several own-brand food and drink products.

One item missing from the menu was wine, but that’s until now – the pub has finally introduced its own British wine range.

“There was a time when English wine was like a child’s recorder playing; you wanted to like it, but it wasn’t very good. Fortunately, that time has gone,” the pub said in a new statement.

“Thanks to warmer summers and expert farming, Britain grows excellent grapes and makes brilliant wine with them,” it continued, before announcing the arrival of Knollbury Fort, “our own range of English wines, created to champion British farming and prove that this country now produces genuinely world-class wine”.

In August 2025, the pub started selling ketchup after a Chatham-based producer made it using solely British ingredients.

Condimaniac ketchup is made of tomato passata from Isle of Wight, apple cider vinegar from Hants, Essex salt, and sugar and onions sourced from Britain.

“Making a 100 per cent British ketchup after Jeremy Clarkson alerted us to the fact there wasn’t one was very hard,” the company’s boss Kier Kemp said in an Instagram video chronicling the sauce’s creation.

“It turned out to be really hard,” he added, noting Clarkson’s Diddly Squat team requested the sauce “as soon as possible”.

Kemp said the company has made two sauces at the same time – one containing carrots and onion “used to thicken” the sauce, as there is no purely British tomato puree.

The move is a big turnaround from Clarkson, considering the former Grand Tour star became so fed up with requests that a sign was put up telling customers to stop asking for the condiment.

Speaking about the products on offer when the pub first opened its doors, Clarkson said: “The menu changes – it’s whatever we’ve got. There’s no Coca-Cola, no coffee. Other pubs do coffee. We do British food.

“Everything that you consume in here – every single thing – even the black pepper and the sugar, is grown by British farmers.”

Diddly Squat, a 1,000-acre holding, is at the centre of Clarkson’s Farm, which follows the TV presenter’s journey as a new farmer and the challenges he faces along the way.

The 64-year-old former Top Gear presenter paid less than £1m for the pub based in Asthall, which was formerly known as The Windmill.

Its opening, however, was marred by complaints surrounding the absence of prices on the menu, with many fans suspecting that this might suggest dishes would be more expensive than at other pubs in the area.

When one person joked on X/Twitter that they would need to remortgage their home to afford a round of drinks at Clarkson’s pub, the presenter bluntly responded: “It’s £5.50 a pint.”

The Premier League comes to an end on Sunday with Arsenal having already won the league, but safety and spots in Europe are still on the line.

Before the final games of the season, we want to test your knowledge of everything that has happened in the 2025-26 campaign.

Try out our quiz to see how much you can remember about this season’s Premier League.

The chaos in the aftermath of China‘s worst mine disaster in 17 years led to a revision in the death toll to 82 ​killed, local officials said at a press conference late on Saturday.

The ‌people died in a gas explosion at the Liushenyu coal mine in China’s northern province of Shanxi late on Friday.

Initially, state media reports said at least 90 people were killed.

Even ​at the lower number, the incident remains China’s deadliest mining accident since 2009, ​when a gas explosion at the Xinxing Mine in Heilongjiang province ⁠killed 108 people.

Local officials said at the press conference the initial death ​toll from state media had been tallied in error.

“After the incident, the scene was ​chaotic, the company’s count of the number of workers was not clear, which led to the initial inaccurate number,” Guo Xiaofang, the head of Shanxi’s Qinyuan county, where the mine ​is located, said.

There were 247 workers on duty underground at the time of ​the explosion.

Two people remained unaccounted for, Mr Guo said, while 128 were injured and hospitalised, and ‌35 ⁠were uninjured.

The Liushenyu mine is owned by Shanxi Tongzhou Coal Coking Group and all four of its mines have been closed and company executives detained, local officials said at the news conference.

State-run newspaper the People’s Daily published an editorial on ​the accident on ​its front page ⁠on Sunday morning, calling for greater attention to safety in production and to “completely reverse the tendency to prioritise development over ​safety”.

President Xi Jinping on Saturday had called for authorities to “spare ​no effort” ⁠in treating the injured and conducting search and rescue operations, according to Xinhua. He also ordered an investigation into the incident.

The mine has a production capacity of ⁠1.2 million ​tons of coal per year, officials said at the ​press conference.

China last year mined 4.83 billion tons of the fuel, which forms the backbone ​of its power sector.

The Agency of Change, which works with 15 to 25-year-olds from underserved communities, is celebrating 13 years of work supporting young people to create projects aimed at improving their local areas.

Over the past decade, the organisation has reached more than 41,000 people across the UK, worked with more than 900 young people and helped launch over 250 youth-led social enterprise projects.

In Bolton, The Agency works alongside the Octagon Theatre and is currently supporting several community-led initiatives developed by young people themselves.

These include Project Breakout, which recreates online games as real-life tournaments to reduce social isolation, and Manny Cutz, which teaches barbering skills to help young people build confidence and employment opportunities.

Other projects include No Blade, which delivers workshops aimed at preventing knife crime, and Newlight Networks, a youth group supporting teenagers coping with addiction while creating a public mural for the community.

The organisation has now become an independent charity, with former participants — known as “Agents” — helping to lead the organisation as trustees.

Cultural leader and author Saad Eddine Said has also been appointed as the new Chair of the Board.

Saad Eddine Said, chair of trustees (Image: OVOGALLERY)

Mr Said said: “Over the past decade, the Agency of Change has shown what happens when young people are trusted with real responsibility and supported to lead.

“The task ahead is to ensure young people’s voices and decision-making become part of the cultural infrastructure of our towns and cities.

“In 13 years’ time, we should see alumni shaping policy, leading institutions and mentoring the next generation.”

Agents talking about their ideas (Image: OVOGALLERY)

Former participant and now trustee Henrietta Imoreh said the programme had transformed her confidence and future.

She said: “Receiving funding and support gave me power for the first time — the power over my story, my project and how I wanted to create change.

“I’m now proud to serve as a trustee, helping to ensure other young people have the same chance to shape their futures and create change.”

The Agency model was originally developed in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro by Brazilian theatre-maker and activist Marcus Faustini, before being brought to the UK through partnerships with Battersea Arts Centre, Contact in Manchester and People’s Palace Projects at Queen Mary University of London.

Mr Faustini said: “The Agency was born from a belief that young people are not problems to be solved but creators of new futures.

“Seeing my idea travel across countries and cultures, and now stand as an independent movement in the UK, is a powerful reminder that creativity and courage can transform communities anywhere.”

The organisation has also recently expanded internationally, helping launch a new programme in Colima, Mexico, where young people are developing projects focused on women’s empowerment, peace-building and preserving cultural heritage.