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The period of royal mourning will be observed from Friday, September 9 until seven days after the Queen’s funeral

The food will go to homeless people after the Mercury Prize event at the Hammersmith Apollo was cancelled following the Queen’s death.

Mercury Prize ceremony was postponed after Queen Elizabeth II died aged 96, meaning hundreds of meals were at risk of going to waste

The organisers behind the event offered their thoughts and condolences

The 2022 Mercury Prize Awards were postponed following the announcement of the Queen’s death, leaving plates of hot food unserved

There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Pisces.

Former One Direction singer Harry Styles, Self Esteem and Wet Leg are among the nominees for this year's Mercury Prize. The star-studded event is still expected to go ahead later this evening but no celebrities will walk the red carpet

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Isle of Wight alt-rock duo Wet Leg are one of the favourites to bag the Mercury Prize 2022 for their self-titled debut album, which features the hit single Chaise Longue

The Welsh artist is up for this year’s Mercury Prize with her resplendent Cornish-language album, ‘Tresor’. She speaks to Roisin O’Connor about wanting to ‘other’ herself in St Ives, her experience of pregnancy, and her view that most people are curious, not fearful, of other cultures

Harry Styles’s high-end lockdown album is surprisingly of a piece with other longlisted albums by artists as distinct as Joy Crookes and Gwenno