LadBaby have taken the Christmas number one spot for the third consecutive year – beating Mariah Carey, Liam Gallagher and Justin Bieber. LadBaby – compromising of YouTubers Mark and Roxanne Hoyle – topped the charts with their sausage-roll themed Don’t Stop Me Eatin’, sung to the tune of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’. First-week sales figures
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The BBC has received 266 complaints about a Vicar of Dibley scene that showed support for the Black Lives Matter movement. In a Christmas special last week, Dawn French’s character took the knee and delivered a speech about racism. The scene shows her talking about being preoccupied with the “horror show” of George Floyd’s death
A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) research team published a paper in the journal Science earlier this month on the development of a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell that achieved 29.15% efficiency. That’s a new world record. Solar cell efficiency record This beats the previous achievement of 28% efficiency. The long-term efficiency target for a perovskite/silicon tandem solar
Ariana Grande has sent Christmas presents to hundreds of patients in hospitals in Manchester. It is three years since a terror attack killed 22 people at the pop star’s concert in the Manchester Arena, and the city has been close to her heart since. The 27-year-old Positions singer sent gifts and Amazon vouchers to patients
Elon Musk has been teasing an important software update coming for Tesla owners during the holidays. With only a week left in the year, Tesla owners are getting anxious to see it, but Musk confirms it is still coming and Tesla is just “ironing out a few bugs.” Tesla is consistently pushing new over-the-air software
Nikola (NKLA) announced that the company and a partner have canceled a deal to make electric garbage trucks and the reason they gave is basically that it is too hard. Earlier this year, Nikola, which is better known for its electric-hydrogen trucks, and Republic Services, a large US-based waste disposal company, announced that they would
British supermodel Stella Tennant has died suddenly at the age of 50, her family has confirmed. Paying tribute, they said in a statement: “It is with great sadness we announce the sudden death of Stella Tennant on 22 December 2020. “Stella was a wonderful woman and an inspiration to us all. She will be greatly
VW confirmed that the production of electric e-Golf ends today at the Transparent Factory in Dresden and it will be replaced by the new ID.3 electric car. The VW e-Golf was, by most people’s description, a compliance electric car. It was built on an existing fossil fuel-powered model, produced in limited quantities, and made available
UK film censors have added a warning about racial stereotypes to Flash Gordon, saying the character of Ming the Merciless is “dubious, if not outright offensive”. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) said it now has to bear in mind discriminatory depictions that are “no longer acceptable to modern audiences” when older films come
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Cinemas have often been cast as one of the victims in the real-life economic apocalypse movie playing out as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. With would-be movie-goers stuck at home and cinemas in darkness, the future of the big screen has looked increasingly uncertain in recent months. And the pandemic has also accelerated the
TV and film production may have been halted by the coronavirus pandemic, but for many 2020 will be the year they consumed more shows and movies than ever before. Staying home meant turning to our screens – and we went from not quite believing our eyes while watching Tiger King at the start of the
Director Sir Peter Jackson has released a five-minute sneak peak of his long-awaited documentary about The Beatles. The film won’t be open in UK cinemas until next summer, but Sir Peter said he wanted to share a montage in the meantime to cheer people up this Christmas. His selected clips show the Fab Four working
Netflix’s big Christmas release has got nothing to do with tinsel, presents or Santa Claus, and everything to do with romance, scandal and matchmaking. Bridgerton is the first thing to come out of Shonda Rhimes’ whopping $100m (£74m) deal with the streaming service, and expectations for the eight-part period drama are accordingly high. Shonda Rhimes,
Apple Car rumors have been floating around for years, and a new report from Reuters today shed more light on the highly-secretive project. According to the report, production of the electric Apple Car could start as early as 2024, and Apple is once again planning to build its own branded vehicle. Apple Car battery technology
Christmas is a time for gifts, food, family – and, of course, TV cliffhangers. Any soap worth its salt will feature the climax to big storylines during the festive period, with ruined weddings, tragic deaths and dramatic births usually par for the course. Festive specials of our favourite TV shows are also good for endings