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Sam Fender says ‘young hero’ saved him from tent fire at Leeds Festival as he announces headline slot

‘Little did he know he’d just saved Reading and Leeds’s 2023 headliner,’ Fender wrote

The Independent UK

Reading and Leeds Festival 2023 announce superstar headliners including Billie Eilish and Foals

Tickets went on sale this morning, causing a frenzy of fans to join Ticketmaster, all eager to get hold of those must-have tickets

Wales Online

Reading and Leeds Festival 2023: Dates and full line-up after The 1975 replace Lewis Capaldi

The news comes after Capaldi announced last month that he would be cancelling all his upcoming live shows

Evening Standard

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Sam Fender relives Leeds Festival 'horror' of being saved from burning tent as he gets headline slot

Seventeen Going Under singer Sam Fender has been confirmed as a Leeds ad Reading Festival headliner for 2023

Chronicle Live

The Killers announce 2023 UK and Ireland shows, including Reading Festival and first Edinburgh show

‘Somebody Told Me’ band have announced four shows in UK and Ireland next summer

The Independent UK

Reading and Leeds 2023 line-up sees popstars Billie Eilish and Lewis Capaldi headline

Billie Eilish is set to to headline at 20 years old alongside the likes of The Killers, Lewis Capaldi, Sam Fender, Foals and Imagine Dragons

Daily Mirror

Fit and healthy man's heart STOPPED beating while running half marathon

Jonathan Oakeley, 35, was running the Reading half marathon when he started feeling unwell, before waking up surrounded by medics

Daily Mirror

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Westminster beware: the north is ready to take ‘levelling up’ into its own hands

Resolute mayors and angry MPs have a new confident voice – and they will use it to make the Tories’ empty words a reality, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

John Lewis agrees £500m deal with Abrdn to build 1,000 rental homes

Waitrose shops in Bromley and West Ealing will be redeveloped, and vacant warehouse in Reading

The Guardian - UK

Inside abandoned home once owned by Pink Floyd rockstar with tragic secret in basement

Hook End Manor is a 16th century Elizabethan House that was built in the 1580 for the Bishop of Reading, and it was once home to Pink Floyd musician David Gilmour and his wife for seven years

Daily Mirror

Princess of Wales comforts Ukrainian mother as she meets displaced families

Kate heard harrowing stories from families who fled war on visit to Reading Ukrainian Community Centre

Evening Standard

Kate Middleton comforts weeping mother as she meets families who fled war in Ukraine

The Princess of Wales Kate Middleton visited the Reading Ukrainian Community Centre where she met Ukrainian families who have come to the UK after fleeing the conflict in their home country

Daily Mirror

Popeyes to open 31 restaurants in UK by end of 2023 - including drive-thrus

The US fast-food chain's ‘Famous Louisiana Chicken’ has been such a success with Brits that it plans to open 31 UK restaurants by the end of next year - with confirmed locations including Cambridge, Croydon and Reading

Daily Mirror

Arrogant driver seen blocking ambulance in viral video gets locked out of his flat

Albert Butler blocked an ambulance on the A4 Bath Road in Reading towards Maidenhead, Berks, on February 2. He was charged with dangerous driving and obstructing/hindering an emergency worker

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Evening Standard

Elizabeth line linkup from Sunday with direct trains to Heathrow

Services from Reading and Abbey Wood will no longer terminate at Paddington

Daily Mirror

Man, 94, and woman, 84, killed in horror crash as they walked, while driver in his 80s injured

Police have launched an investigation into the double tragedy which left a pair of elderly pedestrians dead at the scene near Reading, while the driver was rushed to hospital

Evening Standard

Reading: Arsonist jailed for life for killing neighbours in ‘devastating revenge attack’

Hakeem Kigundu, 32, was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Friday

The Independent UK

Arsonist jailed for life for killing neighbours in ‘devastating revenge attack’

Hakeem Kigundu, 32, was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Friday.

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The Independent UK

Survivor of fatal fire left ‘not wanting to live’ and will not forgive arsonist

Joel Richards spoke about surviving a fire at Rowe Court in Reading last year, as the arsonist was jailed on Friday.

The Independent UK

Arsonist who killed two neighbours apologises in court and refers to Quran

Hakeem Kigundu, 32, who started a fatal fire at Rowe Court in Reading, Berkshire, on December 15 last year, spoke at Reading Crown Court on Friday.

The Independent UK

Murderer facing eviction set fire to his block of flats ‘intending to kill as many neighbours as possible’

Richard Burgess, 46, and Neil Morris, 45, both died in the blaze in Reading, Hampshire

The Independent UK

Arsonist’s chilling voicenote outlining plan to kill neighbours read in court

Hakeem Kigundu, 32, admitted setting fire to Rowe Court in Reading, Berkshire, on December 15 last year.

The Guardian - UK

Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner: ‘I’m comfortable with the idea that things don’t have to be a pop song’

The most influential frontman of his generation is also the least at ease with it. He discusses abandoning rock norms, singing from the gut and treading the fine line between cryptic and gooey on new album The Car

The Independent UK

Rail services at Paddington station hit by severe disruption

The problem has also delayed trains travelling from Reading and Heathrow Airport.

Evening Standard

Paddington commuters hit by more transport misery after chaos on Queen’s funeral day

Engineers are scrambling to fix power lines but commuters have been hit by ongoing disruption following funeral day meltdown

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