Thousands of people have been enjoying this year’s Reading Festival. Artists first took to the main stage on Friday, but revellers began to arrive to the festival ground at Richfield Avenue earlier this week as gates opened on Wednesday. On Saturday the crowd was surprised by Ed Sheeran as he unexpectedly joined Bring Me the Horizon on the main stage. The 1975 are instead set to perform on...
Almost 5,000 Covid-19 cases have been linked to the music and surfing festival Boardmasters, which took place in Cornwall this month. Health officials said 4,700 people who have tested positive for coronavirus confirmed they had attended the festival in Newquay or had connections to it. About three-quarters of them are aged 16-21 and about 800 live in the county. The number of Covid infections...
EID al-Adha is one of the key festivals in the Muslim calendar. The event is a celebration of Ibrahim agreeing to sacrifice his son Ishmael under God’s command. When is Eid al-Adha 2021? Eid al-Adha is celebrated on the 10th day of Dhū al-Hijjah, the twelfth and final month of the Islamic calendar. In 2021, the four-day event will begin on the evening of July 19 and end on July 23. How is...