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| The UK games market grew 12.4% to record £5.11 billion last year despite the squeeze on consumer spending and household incomes, figures show. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel – 2 March 2018 |
| Hundreds of nightclubs across the country have closed in the last 10 years with revellers seemingly less keen to dance the night away. Shock statistics published last week by the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) reveal 1,511 clubs have closed down since 2005 bringing the total down from 3,144 to 1,633. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel - 18th August 2015 |
| A Miley Cyrus concert in the Dominican Republic has been banned on morality grounds. The government commission in charge of public performances said it took the action because Cyrus ‘undertakes acts that go against morals and customs, which are punishable by Dominican law’. Critics have declared some of her onstage antics as vulgar. | |
| Entertainment | Weekend Sentinel, 23rd August, 2014 |
| Some call it the “beautiful game”. There must be something special about it because it is a global phenomenon! The latest survey says that over 265 million people, around 4% of the world’s population play this beautiful game, and during the last world cup finals in South Africa, nearly half of the worlds population watched at least 5minutes of a game. In Mongolia, when the majority of significant games are broadcast in the middle of the night, people are up watching the games on TV! Even in the depths of the Mongolian countryside where there is not even a mobile phone signal, two of my friends found a ger with a satellite dish to watch this year’s champions league final, and at 3 in the morning! | |
| Entertainment | Go, Third Quarter 2013 |
| Buckets and spades will soon be a thing of the past at children’s holiday clubs, according to ‘futurologist’ Ian Peason. Instead, the prediction maker says, robots, avatars and 3D glasses will replace traditional playthings. But a study by travel agency Thomson has shown that many parents would prefer their children to have more traditional experiences, like ‘playing bat and ball games’ on holiday and leave technology at home. The survey of 1,000 children and parents discovered that adults value relationship over entertainment, with one in four parents saying the best thing about children’s holiday clubs was seeing their children make friends. However, nearly 70% of the children who took part in the survey would like to use technology on holiday. All is not lost for traditionalist parents though – 28% of the children surveyed said that the best thing about children’s holiday clubs was learning new things and playing new games. | |
| Entertainment | Families First, July/August 2013 |
| New tickets are being launched for sports fans to watch the London 2012 Olympics. From May 29, ticket’s to the cycling individual time trial at Hampton Court Palace, the big screen at the mound nicknamed “Henman Hill” at Wimbledon, and the Orbit Tower in the Olympic Park, will be available. The aim is to help more people get to the Games, according to the Olympics Chief Executive Paul Deighton. He added that babies will be able to go to the Olympics without having a ticket. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel – 9th May 2012 |
| About 850,000 tickets have been sold in the second round sale for the London 2012 Olympics leaving seats for football, volleyball and wrestling still remaining, organisers said. The second round scramble for tickets is open to the 1.2 million people who missed out in the original sale. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel June 27 2011 |
| Lady Gaga’s bestselling album Born This Way has been banned in Lebanon for being ‘offensive to Christianity’. The album has also been banned in Malaysia for ‘promoting homosexuality’. Her recent single Judas has also been banned in Lebanon. | |
| Entertainment | Church Of England June 10, 2011 |
| Paramount Pictures are to make a film based on Genesis, the first book in the Bible. According to Empire magazine, James Cameron is reportedly the first choice for director. | |
| Entertainment | The War Cry – April 10th 2010 |
| Poker Face, by Lady Gaga, was the biggest-selling song of 2009, selling more than 880,000 copies according to the Official Charts Company. I Dreamed a Dream, by Susan Boyle, was the best-selling album, shifting 1.5 million copies | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel – 4th January 2010 |
| X Factor theme tune O Fortuna was named the UK’s most widely heard classical track since records began. Carl Orff’s composition from his 1937 oratorio Carmina Burana topped a list of the most-played classical recordings of the past 75 years. Second place in the list went to Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel – 29th December 2009 |
| J K Rowling was denied the U.S’s highest civilian honour because members of the Bush administration believed Harry Potter “encouraged witchcraft”, a new book claims. Matt Latimer, a former speech writer for George W Bush, states in ‘Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor’ that White House officials objected to her ‘promotion of sorcery’ and denied her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel - 30 September 2009 |
| Sir Alan Sugar must choose between working as the Government’s Enterprise Tsar and TV’s The Apprentice, Conservatives have said. Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt said the roles were “totally incompatible”. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel- 8 June 2009 |
| Music stars have been hit by the recession with the likes of Sir Elton John and Robbie Williams losing around a quarter of their personal wealth over the past year. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, Williams lost £25 million over the year to be left with a trifling £80 million. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel – 24 April 2009 |
| Angels and Demons is little more than “harmless entertainment,” with many factual errors and little cultural value according to the Vatican newspaper. Two dispassionate articles in L’Osservatore Romano may disappoint the film’s promoters, who had sought a conflict with the Vatican of the type that surrounded The Da Vinci Code in 2006. Both films are based on books by author Dan Brown. An editorial in the paper called both the film and the book “modest” and “rather innocuous”. | |
| Entertainment | The Universe– May 2009 |
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