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A spokesperson for Sky Sports said: 'It's a privilege to be part of The BIGGER 180 campaign, especially after seeing the outstanding work and money raised last year. We look forward to using Sky's platforms to widen the reach and provide meaningful change in order to help save lives.' 

I just needed to get home to Middlesbrough from London, but the record company wouldn't pay for a rail ticket, and I was banned from driving.' Speaking to The Guardian, British singer Chris Rea revealed that it was - perhaps unsurprisingly - being stuck in traffic that inspired the tune. 'It was 1978, coming up to Christmas. It was all over for me: I was just about out of my record contract, and my manager had just told me he was leaving me.





However, it has slowly grown in popularity - in 2021 it reached number ten in the UK Singles Chart.  Driving Home For Christmas was released in 1986 as a B-side to song Hello Friend. It was then re-released in 1988 as an attempt at the Christmas charts but only reached number 53.

The first demo of the song was recorded in 1986, featuring bass player Cait O'Riordan singing the wife's role, although the lyrics - 'It was a wild Christmas Eve on the West coast of Clare,' sings O'Riordan - were still being worked upon.

The High Street has been reeling since the Budget in October when Rachel Reeves announced £40billion of tax hikes - including a £25billion rise in National Insurance - and an inflation-busting increase in the minimum wage.

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It also set stiff cost-cutting targets under CEO Georges Elhedery's push to boost returns with increasing attention on Asia where the London-headquartered bank earns the bulk of its profit. HSBC posted annual profit that beat market estimates, helped by increased revenue in wealth and markets businesses.

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Matt Porter, the Professional Darts Corporation chief executive, said: 'The BIG 180 was darts' biggest-ever charity partnership and it's exciting to see this grow even further for the 2024/25 Paddy Power World Darts Championship.





HSBC's report also showed its global workforce totalled 220,928 across its businesses versus 227,552 in 2023 and 232,642 in 2022. There was a 5.5% reduction in staff at its wealth and personal banking business.

SYDNEY/HONG KONG, Feb 19 (Reuters) - HSBC's headcount fell 3% last year and its staff bonus pool hardly changed as a new CEO sharpened focus on costs and initiated sweeping restructuring of the Asia-focused lender, showed its 2024 financial report issued on Wednesday.

backing singers Shirlie Kemp and Helen 'Pepsi' DeMacque was well as Jon Fowler, Cheryl Harrison, Pat Fernandes and David Ridler, who also appeared in the video. To mark the occasion, Andrew has returned to the same Swiss Alpine village where the video was filmed, joined by Wham!

A spokesman for the company said: 'No decision has yet been made on the bonus. Investing in our partners remains our key priority and we're increasing Partner pay by £114million this year, that's £295million in the past three years.'

He supported Eric Clapton on tour while a member of a group called Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts. In 1971 he wrote the song Sea Side Shuffle - which got to number two in the charts - and the band changed their name to Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs.

While the the Performing Right Society (PRS) has not revealed how much The Pogues' 1987 Christmas melody Fairytale of New York struck makes from this festive tune to protect members' privacy - the Mail has in past estimated an annual £400,000.

Years went by before he was compelled to take the lyrics out the tin as he and keyboard player Max Middleton and I were testing two new piano, and Chris played a melody that he felt 'fitted perfectly' with the words he'd written down.

It was a hippy-trippy thing and the chorus went: 'So won't you buy me a rocking chair to watch the world go by / Buy me a looking glass to look me in the eye-eye-eye.' Speaking to PRS For Music, he said: 'The song that became Merry Xmas Everybody was written in 1967.

Clarification if qualifying is cancelled
A regulation change has been made which would allow race stewards to use the drivers' championship classification in the event qualifying is unable to take place.

MacColl, whose father was legendary Scottish folk singer Ewan MacColl, had enjoyed chart success in the early 1980s with the Billy Bragg-penned hit New England, but stage fright had seen her retreat from performing.

Jokingly, I started singing: "We're driving home for Christmas …" Then, whenever the street lights shone inside the car, I started writing down lyrics.' 'Then it started snowing,' he continued. 'We had £220 and I was fiddling with it all the way home. We kept getting stuck in traffic and I'd look across at the other drivers, who all looked so miserable.