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Hundreds of thousands of teenagers across England prepared to receive their GCSE results today. The percentage of youngsters receiving grades A* to C has risen slightly from 68.8% to 69%, but top A* and A grades have fallen by 0.1%. The best results were achieved in Northern Ireland, where A* to C grades rose by 0.7% […]

We’ve always wondered where sportsmen’s and sportswomen’s money goes. Here at b**p we have been looking into who the most charitable sportspeople in the world are. The first person on the list may come as a surprise: the Real Madrid and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo has raised money for various charities. Not only has he donated […]

Newcastle took on Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium at the weekend but it was nothing more than déjà vu for the black and whites. Steve McLaren and the North East side travelled 707 miles in the early hours of Saturday morning for nothing but disappointment. All three of the problems that haunted Newcastle last […]

As the football season gets underway, we have put together the b**p dream team. The team that we think would be the ultimate if the players were to unite as one. To create a team like this you would be looking at a rather impressive price tag, but then that’s what you would expect for […]

Students across England gathered to collect their A-level results today, with data showing that top A-level results have fallen slightly compared to last year. A* and A grades were awarded to 25.9% of the students – down from last year’s result of 26% – but the number of people accepted for university has hit a record of […]

Disclosure and Sam Smith’s latest collaboration ‘Omen’ has been released online. The first collaboration the trip did together was back in 2012 with the single ‘Latch’. ‘Omen’ is the second single from Disclosure’s upcoming album, Caracal, following ‘Holding on’. The single was written by Guy Lawrence, Howard Lawrence and Sam Smith and co-written by Jimmy Napes. […]

All football fans were set for another Premier League season on the weekend, with exhilarating competition and some surprising results. Newcastle took on Southampton on Sunday in front of their home crowd. The black and whites held onto one point, playing out a dramatic draw against the saints. The away side found the back of […]

Tom Davies who is 19 years old has just finished an 18,000 mile journey on Sunday, cycling around the world to raise money for several charities. The youngster has not only become the youngest person to cycle around the world; he has also raised an astonishing £50,000 which will go to Prostate Cancer UK and […]

American singer Lana Del Rey has released her new single ‘High by the Beach’. ‘High by the Beach’ will be released as the lead single for her upcoming studio album Honeymoon. The new single will also be a follow up to 2014’s number one single ‘Ultraviolence’. Honeymoon is expected to be released in September but […]

Emma Bunton has put an end to rumours that the Spice Girls will be reunited for a 20th anniversary tour in 2016. The group last appeared together during the London Olympics closing ceremony but unfortunately rumours were quickly nipped in the bud by members of the band. Members of the band were quick to joke about […]

The Canadian R&B recording artist The Weeknd has released the music video for his latest single ‘Can’t Feel my Face’. The single was lifted from his forthcoming new album Beauty Behind the Madness.   The music video was directed by Grant Singer and co-written by The Weeknd with pop stalwarts Max Martin, Ali Payami, Savan Kotecha […]

Former Wimbledon champion Andy Murray and his wife Kim are expecting their first child. The couple are overjoyed with the news. Their engagement was announced in November 2014, and the tennis player married his long-term girlfriend in his hometown of Dunblane in front of his family and friends in April.     Judy, the mother of […]

Jennifer Aniston and fiancé of three years Justin Theroux have finally tied the knot. The pair started dating after they worked together on the comedy Wanderlust and got engaged in August 2012 after just over a year of being together. Justin proposed to the American actress on his 41st birthday over dinner in New York. […]

The Great British Bake Off was back on BBC One last night attracting 9.3 million viewers, 2 million more than last years opening show. 43% of all TV viewers were watching ‘The Bake Off’ tuning in to see 12 new bakers attempt to win over Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood with their creations. These figures […]

Declan Donnelly returned to his hometown to tie the knot with his partner and manager Ali Astall. The big day took place at St Michael’s Church at Elswick, Newcastle on Saturday. Dec started dating 36 year old Ali in 2012 and popped the question last November. Best man Ant McPartlin was really emotional at his TV sidekicks wedding, after the […]

Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards have called off their engagement. The pair have both been fairly quiet about the break up which was confirmed by a representative for Malik who said the couple had ended the relationship. The former One Direction star got together with Perrie in 2012, shortly after Little Mix won the X-Factor. […]

Avengers: Age Of Ultron star Robert Downey Jr has topped the Forbes list of highest paid actors for the third year. The actor earned an astonishing $80m, $30m ahead of second place Jackie Chan who is the biggest movie star in China. Daniel Craig was the only British Actor to feature on the list, coming […]

Yahoo are trying to catch up in mobile services by unveiling a messaging app to compete with similar apps such as Snapchat, Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger. The latest Yahoo messaging app is a mix between Snapchat and generic texting, which allows you to send video calls with text rather than audio to keep the conversation […]

Tomorrow will see those who like baking, those who like eating the things people bake and those who are interested in just how ‘tanned’ Paul Hollywood will be this series, convening around TVs all around the country at 8 pm, as the cult BBC cookery show returns for its sixth series. Loyal fans of the […]

Zayn Malik has signed a solo record deal with RCA records after walking away from One Direction in March claiming he wanted to be a normal 22 year old but it wasn’t long after when he baffled fans by starting a solo career. He tweeted a photo of himself signing paper that seemed to be […]

Florence and the Machine have released their latest single ‘Queen of Peace’ from their latest album How Big How Blue How Beautiful which is the indie rock bands first studio album in three and a half years. The album was released through Island Records reaching number one in the UK and the US.     […]

We’ve all wondered what the method of madness is behind Jose Mourinho’s success as a football manager. Putting all of his knowledge aside his success comes from working effectively with his finances. Mourinho thinks Arsenal have spent enough and pulled in some quality players to compete for the Premier League title this season but the […]

The music video for ‘No Sleeep’ from Janet Jackson is now available worldwide. This will be the lead single from her upcoming eleventh studio album, which will be released later this year through her own label Rhythm Nation Records and BMG. The video features American Hip-Hop act J.Cole, with the video being produced and co-written […]

Singing sensation Ed Sheeran has shocked fans after landing himself a role in the forthcoming American Historical fiction Drama television series, The Bastard Executioner.  Ed is set to play Sir Cormac who is described as a deadly and ambitious character. The Grammy winning singer has also recorded a version of Foy Vance’s ‘Make it Rain’ […]

So Dave Grohl fell the other night as the Foo Fighters were performing on the Swedish leg of their World Tour (no pun intended) and broke his leg, only to return to the stage an hour later in a cast. What a man he is. And then this weekend it turns out that female vocalist […]

You can forget any super hero movies, you can forget fast cars and gigantic apes roaming the streets of Manhattan, the latest box office smash to take the most money ever globally in its first weekend goes to Jurassic World. The movie which features Chris Pratt took $511 million around the world this past weekend. […]

Rita Ora has released the new music video for her latest single ‘Poison.’ The British singer, songwriter and actress has had a successful modelling career as well as her career as a judge on Voice UK. She is currently working on her second album which is due to be released later this year. Her debut […]

Former England manager Steve McClaren has been appointed as the new head coach for Newcastle United. The 54 year old has turned the job down twice but has now signed a contract for three years which could get extended to eight years. John Carver who took over the role as head coach throughout the season […]

Arsenal secured a 4-0 win over Aston Villa in the FA Cup final. Arsenal are now the most successful club in the FA Cup History retaining the trophy for the second time marking Arsene Wenger’s 6th FA Cup, win making him the most successful manager in the competition history.     They are the first […]

Britains Got Talent Matisse has brought up a lot of speculation and discussion’s over whether the results were fair due to owner Jules O’ Dwayre using a stunt dog in the final for the high-rope walking instead of the dog she has been using throughout the show. The owner O’ Dwayre claims that Matisse is a […]

Jason Deruolo’s latest track ‘Want to Want Me’ has gone straight to the top of the UK Singles Chart and serves as the American artists fourth number one here in the UK selling 127,000 copies in its first week. So OMI has finally been knocked off the top spot after spending fourth consecutive weeks in the […]

Public smoking in China’s capital Beijing is now banned. Smoking in restaurants, offices and on public transport has now been banned which is no surprise after statistics show that China has over 200 million smokers and more than one million of them die each year due to smoking-related illnesses. The country consumes a third of the […]

So Louis Walsh thinks there’s too much singing on a singing show? If we hadn’t heard it all we certainly have now. “Singing shows are not what they used to be they have too much singing in them, he said.”   The 62 year old recently announced he was leaving theX Factor after 11 years […]

OMI has topped the UK Singles Chart for the fourth week running with his summer track ‘Cheerleader.’ Only seven songs have reached the number one spot this year, meaning three weeks is the average time spent at number one. OMI had strong competition this week holding off second place competitors Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth […]

The Story: This is the new standalone novel from Teri Terry author of the phenomenal, award winning Slated series. It centres around Luna, who is what is called a Refuser in a dystopian world, where the majority of citizens now prefer to live their lives in virtual worlds by plugging into their PIP’s, thanks to […]

The music video for Snoop Dogg’s latest single ‘California Roll’ has made its way onto the net. The single was released on May 5,2015 and serves as the third single from his 13th studio album and features vocals from the acclaimed Stevie Wonder  and singer/producer Pharrell Williams. The official video was directed by Warren Fu.

As the curtains close on the Premier League season there will be some teams who will no longer be with us in the Premier League and some teams battling to prove they should be in the league next season. Hull City is one of the teams that didn’t quite do enough to keep their spot […]

The new music video for Taylor Swift’s latest track ‘Bad Blood’ has been released which features American Hip-Hop artist Kendrick Lamar. The music video was directed by Joseph Kahn who also directed Taylor’s recent single ‘Blank Space.’ The video also features Ellen Pompeo, Mariska Hargitay, Jessica Alba, Karlie Kloss, Lena Dunham, Hailee Steinfeld, Kendrick Lamar, Paramore’s […]

BBC One soap Eastenders dominated at the British soap awards winning a total of eight awards including Best British Soap last weekend. Adam Woodyatt who plays Ian Beale won the award for best actor which is no surprise after having one of the main roles in the search for who killed Lucy Beale. Linda Carter […]

With only one game remaining for most teams in the Premier League the focus is on who will be relegated this season. So far it is definite that Burnley and QPR won’t be in the Premier League next season but the third team is still yet to be determined. So this is how the decider […]

Taylor Swift won an astonishing eight out of the fourteen categories she was nominated for dominating the Billboard Music Awards. The 25 year old won awards for Best Female artist, Best Streaming song for her number one track ‘Shake it Off’ and Artist of the Year.     English singer and songwriter Sam Smith won […]

OMI has held onto the top spot for the second consecutive week with his single ‘Cheerleader.’ The single had more than 14,000 sales ahead of the Paul Walker tribute single ‘I’ll See You Again’ which is by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth. ‘Cheerleader’ was also the most streamed track of the week, amassing over 3.2 million listens. […]

Singing sensation Sam Smith has had to cancel more shows after doctors have discovered bleeding due to a haemorrhage on his vocal cords. He has cancelled numerous shows in Japan and Manila and previously had to cancel half of his Australian tour. Sam is heading to the US to see a specialist regarding the problems […]

‘The Who’ have been confirmed as Glastonbury’s final headliner and will be closing the Worthy Farm event on Sunday 28th June. The last time the English rock band took to the stage was an  their debut appearance at the festival and that was back in 2007.     The band will be joining Foo Fighters […]

Age of Ultron has topped the UK Box Office raking in £8.59m in its second week of release. Age of Ultron has the highest takings and the highest total after two weekends of place since Skyfall in 2012. Even though the American superhero film managed to top the UK Box Office it failed to beat the […]

This week we welcome one of our trustees, Mrs Khalil to the site as our guest reviewer. Heading up the library at a local school, Mrs Khalil has her finger on the pulse of everything literary, so it is no surprise she is reviewing a book as she takes on this role here at B**p. […]

Global football stars are earning some of the highest wages in the world. In 2001, Sol Campbell left Tottenham for London rivals Arsenal and his £100,000 a week made him Britain’s first footballer to earn a six figure weekly sum. Now the likes of England captain Wayne Rooney earns almost £300,000 each week. The average […]

The Royal Baby was born on Saturday at 8.34am at St Mary’s Hospital, London, weighing 8lbs 3oz. There was speculation over whether the name Diana would be included in the Royal baby’s name and when the name of the fourth in line to throne was announced, the baby was indeed named with recognition to Diana, […]