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“We need to think more about how we can actually not create the problem in the first place,” Emma tells BBC Music Introducing’s Does My Music Suck? podcast. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Emma says transporting huge arena shows around the world is having a big impact on the environment Emma admits “change will be gradual” but says “every little helps”. “If everyone that’s doing a huge tour cut five trucks, that would make an impact. “It’s not going to make as much impact as if you didn’t have any trucks, but we can’t go and watch people in the dark with no microphones. That’s not going to work.” ‘Is it still cool to pose with your private jet?’ …

Image caption The hosts: Marvin and Rochelle Humes, Mel Giedroyc, Tom Allen, Graham Norton, Ade Adepitan and Tess Daly Children in Need is the BBC’s official UK charity and raises money for disadvantaged young people around the country, such as those experiencing poverty, with disabilities, or victims of abuse or neglect. Image caption Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood in a sketch with EastEnders’ Ricky Champ and Rudolph Walker Image caption Graham Norton gives Julio, Iara and Emma control over his famous lever Image caption England stars Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling with children from the England Amputee Football Association and presenter Mark Wright A special edition of BBC One’s The Hit List featured pop stars including rapper Wretch …

The Conservatives are battling with opposition parties for votes in marginal constituencies ahead of the 12 December general election. Struggling towns to get post-Brexit funding Historic towns to benefit from £95m boost named Labour pledges free broadband for all The party said that, if re-elected, it would increase the business rate discount available to smaller firms from 33% to 50% in 2020/21. They are also planning to introduce a new £1,000 business rates relief scheme for pubs, which the party says amounts to an £18m tax cut next year. The changes to business rates would only apply to England. Business rates for Wales are set in Westminster but relief is set by the Welsh government. Business rate regimes are also …

Comedy actress Vicki Michelle, best known for ‘Allo ‘Allo, paid tribute to Fergusson. Image Copyright @vickimichelle @vickimichelle Fergusson was born on 30 December 1944, and grew up in the village of Woolley near Wakefield. “I have very fond memories of a happy childhood, and going to the village school – long closed now, of course,” she said in 2009. “We’d stretch a line across the road and make that into our ‘tennis net’. There was so little traffic back then that we rarely had to take it down.” The family later moved to Wales, where Fergusson learned her acting craft at The Castle (the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama). Before getting the role of Marina in Last of …