In its 68-year history, the UK has won an impressive five times - the same as Luxembourg, France and the Netherlands. The spokesperson will then reveal how the professional jury voted, awarding points from zero or ('nul') to the maximum and highly sought-after “douze points”. Katrina And The Waves ahead of performing at Eurovision (Rebecca Naden/PA)When was the last time that the UK won Eurovision? Recommended readingHow many times has the UK scored no points? However, we have only scored zero points twice, including once in 2003 and again in 2021.

It’s been described as a touch of summer after a long bleak winter – and it’s safe to say no one is happier than the king himself. Charles’ return to public life has driven home how much he loves meeting people, shaking hands, swopping jokes and chatting away on walk-abouts. And for royal fans the fact the king is back – albeit not on a full-time basis – was reason enough to break out the bubbly. The monarch wasted no time getting out and about after Buckingham Palace announced he was well enough for a gradual return to public-facing duties.

Private school enrolments this academic year have dropped 2.7% from the last, according to figures from the Independent Schools Council (ISC), reportedly the biggest fall since it started collecting data in 2011. The Times newspaper said the body believes Labour’s proposals to charge 20% VAT on private fees in England has put parents off choosing independent schools and forecasts numbers to fall further this autumn. The annual ISC data, which will be published next week, also shows a 0.1% drop in the overall numbers of pupils at private school, it was reported. A party spokesperson said: “Independent schools have raised fees above inflation for well over a decade, and parents will make choices for their family on that basis. “Independent schools do not have to pass Labour’s proposed change onto parents.”

SaveCommentary: It’s in your DNAIt is almost impossible to pick up a medical journal today without seeing an article or commentary on gene editing. The GEI — directed by Eric Kmiec, PhD — allows me to see and learn the progress and complexities of gene editing. To protect themselves against invaders, the bacteria capture pieces of a virus in DNA and store them as segments called crispers. If the same invader tries to attack again, those DNA segments help an enzyme called Cas find and slice up the invader’s DNA. The approach combines elements of CRISPR and prime editing with a pair of enzymes designed to enable the integration of large segments of DNA without incurring double-stranded DNA breaks.

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Jimmy Anderson is set to bring the curtain down on his record-breaking England career this summer after face-to-face talks with the head coach, Brendon McCullum. The Guardian understands McCullum recently made a whistle-stop five-day visit to the UK, travelling 11,000 miles from his home in New Zealand to meet Anderson and tell him in person, over a round of golf, that the Test team is looking to the future. This primarily means building a seam attack for the next Ashes series in the winter of 2025-26, by which time Anderson will be 43. England play six Tests against West Indies and Sri Lanka this summer, including one against the latter on Anderson’s home ground, Old Trafford, in late August – and that will likely be it. Read more 👇https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/10/jimmy-anderson-end-test-cricket-career-england-brendon-mccullum

Claim: Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 1970s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English. Rating: About this rating TrueOn May 5, 2024, a post emerged on Reddit, reading, "Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. Adriano Celentano's 1972 song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" was, in fact, a deliberate attempt to create a song with nonsense lyrics that sounded like American English to an Italian audience. While the lyrics of "Prisencolinensinainciusol" are complete gibberish, Celentano composed them to mimic the way English sounds to non-English speakers, specifically imitating an American accent. But is that really what American English sounds like?

Donald Trump keeps saying he wants to answer the accusations made by Stormy Daniels. Trump’s attorneys on Thursday asked the judge to lift his gag order so Trump could respond to Stormy Daniels — without being under oath. Trump hus money trial: Stormy Daniels spills details about alleged Trump affair. Stormy Daniels testified, under oath, and then was cross-examined. This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Stormy Daniels was brave enough to testify.

The reveal of these possible televote results would be a breach of contest rules by Rai. Rai] pic.twitter.com/cykJlZt4Qr — ESC Discord (@ESCdiscord) May 9, 2024Some had questioned the validity of the voting percentages shown on screen. This is because the broadcasters themselves do not usually know the semi-final voting breakdown of their own country. The final results are then validated by accounting company Ernst & Young. Nevertheless, the information has helped Israel climb significantly in the odds to win Eurovision 2024.

Keir Starmer appeared in Dover and Deal alongside the Labour party’s newest MP, the former Tory Natalie Elphicke, to announce the scrapping of the Rwanda deportation scheme if Labour is elected. The Guardian spoke to people in Dover to get their reaction

This is one relatively minor example of what all the hubbub is about – concerns that anti-aging products used by younger consumers could potentially harm them. Yet 60% of parents with children ages 6-11 have purchased hair care products for their children in the last three months, while 46% bought skin care. Swedish pharmacy bans sale of anti-aging skin care to children. Tweens obsessed with skin care drive brands to say: Don’t buy our stuff. “Kardashian children are sharing skin care routines:” Experts on Gen Z’s aging fixation.

Grimethorpe Colliery Band heads to the North East this weekend to join Ivor Novello composer Martin Green for a performance of 'Split the Air'. Grimethorpe Colliery Band will be heading a familiar brass band stage this weekend when the head to Gateshead to perform at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music on Sunday evening (2th May at 7.30pm). He adds: "It is inspired by band communities, the future of the tradition, and brass bands' relationship to industry." Grimethorpe, pioneers of avant-garde brass band music making for well over 50 years, is looking forward to yet another boundary breaking production. These have been the artistic values of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band tradition — and following on from a highly successful series of recent concerts from Bridlington to Loughborough this provides us with another opportunity to reach out to new brass band fans."

Congressional term limits were first debated in a Senate subcommittee in Sep. 1945, with S.J. Utah (1983) and South Dakota (1989) passed resolutions that called for a constitutional convention on federal congressional term limits. 23 states had passed congressional term limits laws by mid-1995. Similarly, a Sep. 2023 Pew survey found that 87% of adults favored congressional term limits with 56% strongly favoring them. Term limits would give people with real world experience the chance to serve and make an impact.” We cannot simply rely on elections as de facto term limits.

Darts star Kim Huybrechts was hospitalised with a fractured shoulder after being caught up in violence at the Belgian FA Cup final on Thursday evening. The PDC player supports Antwerp and was at the King Baudouin Stadium supporting his team. It is claimed that a group of Brussels locals, unrelated to either club, met Antwerp supporters outside the ground and tempers flared. “As many have already heard, things went seriously wrong today during the cup final,” Verhaegen wrote on Facebook. “In a nutshell: Match end, Antwerp supporters walking along a path through a park in a crowd towards the buses.

But, unlike most, the now-talkSPORT pundit's ill-feeling derived from his fellow Scotsman's playing career, rather than his time in the dugout. When Brazil was a teenager, he grew up a stone's throw away from Ferguson, who was leading Rangers' frontline at the time. Before he broke onto the scene at Ipswich Town, Brazil was a passionate Celtic fan who played in the Bhoys' youth teams. Those were bad days.”Ironically, Brazil would never make a senior appearance for the Bhoys, but he did forge a successful football career in England. Ferguson and Brazil almost had an awkward reunion on the red side of Manchester.