![]() Gary Lineker is accused of goat cruelty by animal rights group Peta for modelling £225 mohair suit.Racism row for top HSBC executive - and UK's former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia - as he tells students: 'The Arabic mind is empty'.EMILY PRESCOTT: American marketing exec Noelle Reno is seen with new man - a decade after her property tycoon lover 'was murdered by Russian mobster in London balcony fall'.It's Independents Day! DAN HODGES meets the piano teacher, wrestler and hospital cleaner plotting homegrown electoral earthquake that could rock Rishi AND Keir… and who say forget the Red and Blue walls, and look out for the GREY one.Fury as family discover British TikTok star known as 'Deaf Immy', 25, took her own life after being sent 'suicide kit' by Canadian man linked to a string of international deaths.Female flight attendant shares brilliant hotel safety tips for how solo travelers can prevent break-ins and theft using everything from ironing boards to coat hangers.Does exercise REALLY make no difference in helping lose weight? As top experts wage war about the best way to burn calories DR ELLIE CANNON: Why can't I lower my high cholesterol level even though my diet is fine? And how can I reduce it without medication?.Barack Obama told ex about his gay sex fantasy while at college in shock letter: 'I make love to men daily, but in the imagination'. ![]() SARAH VINE: My son phoned me from Croatia at 2.33am - and unleashed every mum's holiday nightmare.Scots could face criminal records for calling someone a 'grumpy old man' under SNP's plans for barmy new laws that make ageism a hate crime.PETER HITCHENS: I have no time for Julian Assange but I MUST beg you to join me in opposing his shameful handover to the US.Lesbian speed dating event is accused of transphobia for saying only 'adult human females' can attend - after concern when would-be matchmaker 'turned up in a purple latex outfit.Meghan Markle is spotted wearing a $4 ANTI-STRESS patch that 'provides resonance and frequencies for calm' on wrist as she dons wool coat and scarf despite warm California weather.Moderat and Elektro Guzzi are two of the names to watch. The dancing takes place in smashed up old factories, swimming pools and derelict hospitals all around Lyon. Nuits Sonores (4-8 May €143) is another event dripping with DJs and producers making music you can dance to. Even Jean-Michel Jarre (of "Popcorn" fame) will be there. A perfect place then to listen to Teutonic techno like Boys Noize and Pan Pot. Melt (15-17 July €136 including camping) is the quintessential German festival – taking place a couple of hours south of Berlin, at Ferropolis, an old mine that’s new an open-air museum rammed with terrifying bits of machinery. Radiohead and Pixies hit the stages near the Tagus in Belem, home of the Portuguese custard tart. In Lisbon, NOS Alive (7-9 July day tickets remaining, £49) is another popular choice. The setting, in the surreal concrete Parc del Fòrum is one reason, the city itself is another, and the line-up doesn’t hurt: LCD Soundsystem and PJ Harvey are just two of the acts gracing the stage this year. In a few short years, Primavera Sound (1-5 June only day tickets remaining, €88) has gone from an outside concern to one of the most important festivals in Europe, tempting huge numbers of Brits to Barcelona each spring (and now to Porto too, 9-11 June). All prices below are for full festival tickets with booking fee, excluding travel and accommodation, unless otherwise stated. And if the idea of piecing the whole thing together yourself doesn’t appeal, specialist travel companies such as .uk, and, new this year, can package up tickets, accommodation and in some cases flights or coach transport. ![]() There’s simply no reason to ruin a perfectly good pair of Converse at a rain-splattered British festival when the cost of going abroad (cheaper tickets, no-frills flights, bargain booze and food) is often comparable.īut it’s not just about money, for the growing number of British travellers who venture abroad to festivals each year, it’s a chance to see new music in new places - with the option of tagging on a holiday afterwards. ![]() Cheap flights, wanderlust, and a dearth of mud: the holy trinity that has put a rocket up European music festivals in the past few years. ![]()
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