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Malta’s Eurovision entry rewrites song after 'C-word' controversy

Originally titled 'Kant' (the Maltese word for "singing"), the track caused a stir due to its phoenetic resemblance to a certain four-letter word in the English language.

Euronews

‘Serving’: Malta’s Eurovision Song Rewritten To Remove Word ‘Kant’

Miriana Conte, the Maltese representative for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest, has changed her song to remove all mentions of "kant".

Pedestrian.tv

Kant canned: Maltese singer rewrites Eurovision entry after C-word complaint

Miriana Conte retitles song and removes reference to kant after complaint about similarity to swearword

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You kant say that: Malta’s Eurovision entrant re-records song after swearword spat

The Maltese word, which resembled a British swear, has been removed

The Independent UK

Eurovision entrant uses BBC presenter’s voice after having to redo song

There was controversy over Maltese entrant Miriana Conte as her lyrics and song title appeared to be similar to a British swear word.

Evening Standard

Starmer highlights UK’s war record in implicit rebuke to Vance as Lib Dems mock Badenoch for defending him – as it happened

Interventions follow US vice president’s comments about ‘20,000 troops from some random country that has not fought a war in 40 years’

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: ‘It’s not a customs union’: No 10 leaves door open to joining pan-Europe scheme – as it happened

Downing Street says EU’s suggestion of UK joining agreement would not cross its ‘red lines’ for closer ties

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‘Why would Prince Andrew defend Epstein?’ ex-Newsnight editor Esme Wren on scoops, the queen and Brexit

Wren has been at the forefront of broadcast news for 25 years, editing Newsnight and now Channel 4 News. She talks about slippery politicians – and the blockade on journalism in Gaza

The Guardian - UK

Jerome Powell says Donald Trump can’t fire him, after Fed and BoE cut rates – as it happened

Presidents are “not permitted under the law” to fire Federal Reserve chair or demote governors, Powell insists

The Guardian - UK

UK politics live: Budget means weekly pay to rise just £13 in 20 years as IFS calls Reeves’s plans ‘unrealistic’

The Resolution Foundation has warned that the pay outlook is “dire” and many UK workers will not feel any better off by the end of this Parliament

The Independent UK

Oil price drops, and BP and Shell shares slide, as Saudi Arabia ‘prepares to abandon $100 crude target’ – as it happened

Saudi Arabia is reportedly ready to abandon its unofficial price target of $100 a barrel for crude as it prepares to increase output

The Guardian - UK

Peter Jay, journalist and diplomat, dies aged 87

Tributes paid to one of the UK’s foremost economics commentators who was also ambassador to Washington

The Guardian - UK

Priti Patel repeats call for Tory members to have more say in running party after defeat in leadership race – as it happened

Former home secretary finishes behind Mel Stride with Robert Jenrick leading the contest at this stage

The Guardian - UK

See which BBC presenters got the biggest pay cuts and pay rises this year

THE BBC'S annual report for 2023/2024 has been released, revealing which stars got pay raises and pay cuts ...

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Tom’s Hardware

Global IT issue strikes Windows machines, cause now linked to CrowdStrike software update

An apparent IT update is allegedly linked to a global IT outage for Microsoft Cloud services and BSoD

The National (Scotland)

UK Government quietly concedes Brexit will drive up inflation

THE UK Government has quietly admitted that post-Brexit checks at the UK’s borders will increase inflation – despite Prime Minister Rishi…

Daily Mirror

BBC Breakfast stars' wildly different salaries with one earning twice as much as co-stars

A list of what the highest earning BBC employees are paid per year has been released today, with many getting a pay rise from the corporation compared to last year

Wales Online

Full list of highest paid BBC stars as broadcaster publishes accounts

These are the salaries of 68 BBC stars

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Irish Mirror

BBC's highest earners revealed with number of Irish staff making the list

Gary Lineker, who presents Match of the Day, has been top of the earnings’ list since 2017, and now pockets almost £1million more than BBC top boss Tim Davie

Daily Mirror

BBC's highest earner Gary Lineker earns MORE than top boss Tim Davie

Gary Lineker, who presents Match of the Day, has been top of the earnings’ list since 2017, and now pockets almost £1million more than BBC top boss Tim Davie

GamesRadar

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is getting (partial) blame for the UK's record inflation

Zelda gets her very own 'Beyonce Effect'

The Week

Who will get the blame for UK mortgage misery?

The government has ordered banks to protect people struggling to pay their mortgages as interest rates were predicted to rise as high as 6% by the end of the year.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Has bike theft been ‘effectively decriminalised’ in London?

Tourists think it’s all tea at The Ritz or bumping into Hugh Grant and his floppy hair, but for a true London experience, you really need to have your bike stolen. And once seized, there’s precious little chance of getting it back.

Evening Standard

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves claims energy firms are making ‘war profits’

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has accused energy firms of making “war profits” from the surge in oil and gas prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Week

Sticky inflation and sluggish growth: why does UK economy continue to struggle?

The UK’s economy shrank by 0.3% in March, with the first quarter of 2023 seeing “sluggish growth” of 0.1%, placing the UK once again towards the bottom of the league table of developed economies.

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