For those of you who thought the visit from a Bedford Borough Council official to investigate our daughter Zoe’s (age 12) pretend teddy bear cafe was too ridiculous to be real, here is the arrival of official. This is totally legit. She really did show up at our property to investigate the illegal teddy bears having their coffee🧸🧸☕️☕️

@TheFreds Hi Freds, My mate is doing a Drumathon to help children who have life threatening illness. Can you possibly share please? justgiving.com/page/phil-eva…

Sting collects a reported £550,000 a year from Every Breath You Take, a song only he is credited with writing. Since his old bandmates sued him in 2025, he has paid them more than £595,000 he admits they were owed. They say the full bill could pass £8 million. In the video below, Andy Summers is asked why Sting got all the writing credit for his guitar part. His answer: "That song was going in the trash until I played on it." In 1983 the band could not agree on how the song should sound, and it nearly missed the album. Summers says Sting told him to go in and "make it your own." He played the part in about one take. The song spent 8 weeks at No. 1 in America. The money ran on a deal from 1977, put on paper in 1981: whoever wrote a song gave the other two 15% of its publishing, called an arranger's fee. Sting's lawyers say it covers money "from the manufacture of records." A stream, they argue, is a performance, not a sale. The case for Sting: he wrote the words and the melody alone, nobody forced him to share 15%, and he has already paid what he admits he missed. If you split anything with partners, write down which money the split covers. The Police wrote theirs for vinyl, and nobody wrote down streaming. In the clip Summers jokes that it makes him "the most highly paid and the most played in the world." Then he adds: "My mother would be very proud." So should Sting pay his old band for every stream, or is 15% of a song he wrote alone already generous?

Public piano. Fluent fingers. Pure energy right in the middle of the train station.

Hawkwind - Silver Machine. 1972 Lemmy on Bass n Vox - their classic line-up w/ Stacia - their resident Space Girl.

Believe in yourself, even when everyone else doesn’t.

50 years ago, Dave Allen told a joke about newspaper readers in 1976, it would become more famous 11 years after this on Yes, Prime Minister in 1987.

Magnificent to hear, even more magnificent to see. The queue for evensong at Westminster Abbey is so long, it stretches round the corner

I cannot tell you how much I like @TheFreds. Richard moved in next door to me and the whole way they conducted themselves showed everyone that despite their fame they weren’t remotely arrogant.

This man has a Sikh sense of humour.

First birth of tiny rare frogs at London Zoo ➡️ bbc.in/4z1lcK8