Four Stylish Brit Awards

HARRY STYLES, the 29-year-old former One Direction star picked up four of the top awards at the Brits on Saturday, February 11. He was nominated in four categories and made a clean sweep by winning all of them at London’s O2 Arena.

Following his success at last week’s Grammy’s in Los Angeles, the British pop star won Pop/RnB Act, Song of the Year for As It Was, the Album of the Year for Harry’s House, and the big one, Artist of the Year. The young artist already has an incredible tally of eight Brit awards.

There was the expected controversy when no females were nominated in the category of the best artist. Accepting his award, Harry acknowledged that he was “aware of his privilege”.

Harry thanked his mother: “for signing me up for The X Factor without telling me, so I literally wouldn’t be here without you.” He also made a point of mentioning his former OD bandmates.

Beyonce was a big winner again, adding to her Grammy success, landing two awards. She picked up the ‘International Artist of the Year’ award as well as ‘Break My Soul’ being lauded as ‘International Song of the Year’.

IT was revealed on Tuesday, February 7, that Fawlty Towers, one of the most iconic British comedy series of all time, will return to television screens. The final episode of this classic 1970s show was last broadcast on BBC Two in 1979, more than 40 years ago. Once again controlling the madcap comedy will be John Cleese, the show’s original star and co-writer. This time around, he will be joined by Camilla Cleese, his real-life daughter, according to a news source. The classic comedy revolved around the antics of Cleese’s manic character Basil Fawlty, a grumpy hotel owner in Torquay. In this reboot, Basil will meet his long-lost daughter and decide to open a boutique hotel. Brand new episodes will follow Basil’s attempts to deal with the modern world, with the 83-yearold comic genius explaining that the manic hotel owner will be relocating to a ‘small bijou hotel’ in the Caribbean. Fawlty Towers consistently tops all-time British comedy lists despite only 12 episodes ever being recorded.

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Spanish workers were to take part in an airline strike every Monday between January 30 and February 27.

Bomb blows

A SECOND World War bomb which was uncovered on Tuesday, February 7, by construction workers in the Norfolk coastal town of Great Yarmouth reportedly exploded at around 5pm on Friday February 10.

Norfolk Police tweeted: “We can confirm the unexploded Second World War bomb in Great Yarmouth has detonated. This was not a planned detonation and happened during slow burn work to disarm the explosives. All army and emergency service personnel are accounted for. We will bring you further info when we have it.” Homes and businesses were previously evacuated in the vicinity of the £121 million project to construct a third crossing over the River Yare. Bomb disposal experts have been at the location attempting to defuse the device.