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Transco gets award for lowest transmission losses in Southern Region

Enugu to host BON Awards in November

Pete Edochie, actress and filmmaker Ruth Kadiri, actress Peju Ogunmola, and filmmaker Steve Sodiya would receive Special Recognition Awards at the ceremony.

Aberfan: From Darkness to Light review – Mealor’s requiem offers hope amid the tears

Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff A thoughtful and moving concert – with Paul Mealor’s new choral work its centrepiece – commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster A concert requiem of hope is how composer Paul Mealor describes his new choral work Aberfan: From Darkness to Light, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the disaster that killed 116 children and 28 adults. Heard first in the Aberfan Community Centre with the voices of children from today’s junior schools – Ynysowen Primary School and Ysgol Gymraeg Rhyd y Grug – joining the Ynysowen Male Voice Choir, the BBC National Chorus…

‘My death was reported in Rolling Stone’: how the Zombies made Time of the Season

‘A year after we broke up, we heard that two bands had started touring the US as the Zombies. It remained our only hit in the UK by the time we recorded our second album, Odessey and Oracle, in 1967 – this was only three years later but it felt like a lifetime.

‘OM – Chapter 1’: Sai Pallavi is IPS Nithya Reddy in Dhanush-Rajkumar Periasamy’s next

Also headlined by Malayalam superstar Mammootty, the action thriller is set to release in theatres on November 20

Greens see red in Torrent Power unit in Karjat; actor calls for ‘plate-banging’ stir over tree cutting

In Karjat, around 75km away from south Mumbai, a project by Torrent Power is proposed near the Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary. Large-scale tree felling is going on for the mega venture, and videos of the exercise are in circulation on social media platforms

Chennai-based collective announces carnival to support indie filmmaking

The Creators Carnival, set to be held on October 30, 31, and November 1, will showcase 35 films, apart from discussions with the creators themselves

I used to think I had impeccable taste in music. My kids taught me to stop being a snob

I used to think I had impeccable taste in music. Music may not define them in the way it defined many of my generation, but my children still know a good tune when they hear one There was a moment, some years ago in a St Kilda summer, when our family was driving along a busy street, the car windows down, belting out Eric Carmen’s Make Me Lose Control.

AY Comedian promises ticket refunds after payment dispute disrupts Cardiff concert

AY was scheduled to perform as part of his “AY Live: Single and Not Searching” UK tour.

‘I laughed so hard my Tampax fell out’: Michael Gambon’s pranks revealed by the stars he cracked up

He made Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter fart, left Judi Dench unable to control herself and told a fry-up fantasy about Helen Mirren. A new biography details the star’s mischief Jasper Rees’s authorised biography of Michael Gambon, published three years after the great actor’s death, has nuanced accounts of his performances in Shakespeare, Beckett and Pinter as well as The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films.

Award-winning director-cinematographer Chezhiyan no more

Chezhiyan’s minimalist approach to filmmaking was evident in To Let, in which he deliberately chose not to use background score, despite music being an integral element of Tamil cinema

Bad Day at the Office review – gratuitously entertaining Go-Pro thriller is like Crank meets The Hangover

John Hannah parkours through gangland London in a hyperactive first-person action film that has to keep the heartrate down This ludicrous, rabid thriller, shot largely on first-person GoPros, is like Peep Show on PCP. Hannah plays Karl Davis – or that is apparently his name, when this amnesiac wakes up to a Hangover-like bombsite of a hotel room.

‘Vicarious wish-fulfillment’: why That Thing You Do! is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers explaining their most rewatched comfort films is a journey back to the 90s for Tom Hanks’ heartfelt 60s-set music comedy “How did we get here?” That’s the question Steve Zahn’s character in That Thing You Do! asks his bandmate with bemusement right before they perform on live television.

‘Jailer 2’ movie review: Rajinikanth’s flourishes elevate Nelson’s rousing herogasm

Nelson betters the ‘Jailer’ template with a well-calibrated sequel that knows when to let Rajini loose and fills the in-between stretches with riotous humour and narrative build-up

‘Dharman’: Nayanthara on board Rajinikanth’s next

Nayanthara on board Rajinikanth’s next. This marks a reunion between Rajinikanth and Nayanthara after ‘Chandramukhi,’ ‘Kuselan,’ ‘Darbar,’ and ‘Annaatthe’

As mega-hit Into the Woods wows the West End, what’s the secret weapon of this Sondheim spectacular?

If you want to see enchantment, take yourself to Stephen Sondheim’s musical set in the twisted world of fairytale. Now transferred to the West End from London’s Bridge theatre, it’s a breathtaking piece of design for a seriously playful musical.

‘People think songwriters go around crying all the time’: Jimmy Webb on his epic hits – and wild drinking days

From Wichita Lineman to MacArthur Park, he penned masterpieces. As Jimmy Webb resurrects his unheard numbers, he recalls writing for Dolly, Frank and Glen – and the night Richard Harris stripped off and disappeared ‘Flat for 50 miles,” recalls Jimmy Webb, remembering the desolate stretch of Oklahoma that inspired his classic song, Wichita Lineman.

Ever Since I Knew Myself review – confronting the scars of childhood

Maka Gogaladze’s debut feature looks at generational differences in the context of Georgia’s education system and emphasis on collectivism The scars imprinted on impressionable young minds can never fully fade away. Aiming her lens at a rocky beach thrashed by crashing waves, Maka Gogaladze opens her intimate film with a painful anecdote from her adolescent years.

Igor Levit: Resistance album review – essential listening in a time of bullies and despots

The German pianist performs these works by Beethoven and Schoenberg – linked by Napoleon – with his characteristic exquisite touch, in interpretations full of poetry Resistance is one of the inaugural offerings on Igor Levit’s own label, No Silence Records, released in collaboration with Sony Classical. Never afraid to stick his head above the parapet, the German pianist has chosen two works exploring ideas of human resilience in the face of political power, with Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony No 3, the Eroica, rubbing shoulders with Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon.

Sandra Amarquaye wins PR Professional Practitioner of the Year at IPR Excellence Awards 2025

Sandra Amarquaye, Corporate Communications Manager at Karpowership Ghana Company Limited (KGCL), was named PR Professional Practitioner of the Year at the 2025 Institute of Public Relations (IPR) Ghana Excellence Awards. At Karpowership Ghana, Sandra contributes to corporate communications, media relations, stakeholder engagement and CSR initiatives, helping strengthen the company’s reputation and relationships with employees, institutional stakeholders and communities.

Roads Ministry wins PR Organisation of the Year for the second time

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has won the Public Sector PR Organisation of the Year award for the second consecutive time at the Institute of Public Relations (IPR) Ghana Excellence Awards. The Institute commended the Ministry’s Public Relations Unit, led by Alhaji Nasir Ahmad Yartey, a public relations practitioner and development communication professional with more than 17 years of experience in Ghana’s public sector, for its strategic and professional work.

The Pianist review – Władysław Szpilman’s Holocaust memoir retold with his own music

Park theatre, London This adaptation is perhaps too smooth but is well-staged and performed, and draws strong feeling from the pianist’s compositions The idea of turning the survival story of the Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman into a musical might, on paper, seem distasteful given the stark subject matter of the Holocaust. There is risk of triteness, too, in the light of Roman Polanski’s acclaimed film, starring Adrien Brody, based on Szpilman’s celebrated memoir.

‘Nothing worked for me until I was clean and sober’: Ashley Walters on acting, directing – and turning his life around

He reflects on the road from prison and addiction to soaring success Ashley Walters seems to have lived his life on fast-forward. Back in the early 2000s, he fit a certain stereotype of Black British youth as Asher D, the rapper from deprived and supposedly crime-ridden Peckham, who rolled with the street-tough So Solid Crew, got into beefs with east London rivals such as Dizzee Rascal, was demonised by the tabloids and called a “boasting macho idiot rapper” by the then culture minister Kim Howells.

We do not support our own, but we watch horrible Hollywood movies – Yvonne Okoro

Ghanaian actor and film producer Yvonne Okoro has bemoaned the lack of support for local films. Her acting credits include Beyonce: The President’s Daughter, The Return of Beyonce, Single Six, Contract, Potomanto, Rebecca, Ghana Must Go, Like Cotton Twines and Fix Us.