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Night & Day: Manchester music venue sweating on noise court hearing outcome

  By Paul Glynn Entertainment reporter,  BBC News, Edited by Vinuri Randhula Silva, IMAGE SOURCE, @TONYHAMILTONOFFICIAL Image caption, Night & Day is taking Manchester City Council to court to appeal against a Noise Abatement Notice "It's like moving to Leicester Square and complaining about there being too many cinemas!" So said Matty Healy while  speaking to Apple Music's  Zane Lowe last month about the plight of Manchester's Night & Day Cafe, where his band The 1975 played some of its formative gigs. The frontman sounded angry that the future of the historic city centre venue - which also helped to launch the careers of Elbow, Arctic Monkeys and Wet Leg - is now at risk over a noise complaint from a neighbour who moved in during lockdown. Healy is not alone. More than 94,000 people  have signed a petition  to remove a Noise Abatement Notice issued by Manchester City Council last year. On Tuesday, the owners will appear at Manchester Crown Court to appea

Patagotitan: Colossal dinosaur heading for UK display

  By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, Edtied by Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, D.POL/MEF Image caption, Two replica skeletons exist in the US, but this will be the first showing in Europe A replica of what could have been the largest animal ever to walk on land is coming to London in the New Year. A cast of the sauropod dinosaur known as Patagotitan will go on show at the Natural History Museum - assuming it fits within the gallery space. Measuring some 35m (115ft) from nose to tail, the beast could have weighed up to 60 or 70 tonnes in life. "We should be able to get it in but there won't be much wriggle room," said exhibition developer Sinéad Marron. Image caption, MEF researcher Dr Diego Pol lies next to the dinosaur's thigh bone The replica skeleton is being loaned from Argentina's Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF), whose staff excavated the animal's giant bones in 2014. Their exhumation of the 100m-year-old beast caused a sensation. A photo