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BBC News
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Knaresborough's Glastonbury screening saved from cancellation
A town's free screening of this year's Glastonbury Festival has been saved from cancellation after local businesses and residents donated £5,000 to cover the & District Chamber had previously relied on North Yorkshire Council to provide £2,500 for the Party in the Castle, but cuts meant this year's funding was thanks to grants from Knaresborough Relief in Need, Knaresborough Lions and Knaresborough Rotary Club Waugh Trust, as well as donations from local businesses and residents, the event can go ahead on Saturday 28 Young, director of Knaresborough & District Chamber, called it a "combined community effort" to allow the screening to take place. A crowdfunding page, which was launched after it was announced that cash from North Yorkshire Council's locality funding budget could not be allocated to this year's Party in the Castle, helped to raise over £3,500 towards the event, she said."It has taken a lot more time and stress worrying about getting the money in this year, but without businesses and locals it just wouldn't happen, so I want to say a massive thank you." The decision to keep the event in the grounds of Knaresborough Castle free and to not include concession stands there would ensure it remained "a community-based thing everyone can afford", according to Ms Young."It would be a huge shame if it was down to funding that we couldn't put this on, but we've managed to get there, and I do think with the right people we can chip away and do it again," she Young said the event, which would feature a large screen streaming live footage from the Glastonbury Festival between 17:00 and 23:00 BST, had previously proved a big success."It's a really big family affair as well, so kids were dancing in the rain to Coldplay until 8 or 9 o'clock at night. It was like being at Glastonbury - it's really good."Attendees have been encouraged to bring picnics or visit nearby businesses for takeaway food and Festival was due to take a fallow year in 2026, but Ms Young said the chamber was considering other options for next year, such as showing highlights of previous Glastonbury Legends slots. Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Kiefer Sutherland spotted at Christmas film shoot in Yorkshire
Hollywood star Kiefer Sutherland has been spotted shooting a Christmas-themed film in a North Yorkshire Canadian actor was captured walking out of a hotel in Knaresborough as part of a scene on Wednesday, waving and smiling at crews have set up shop in the car park at Conyngham Hall - but the official title of the film and who else might be involved is currently under of the scenes shot in the afternoon featured a group of people dressed as Santa Claus running along the street, leaving several residents unaware of the filming bewildered. Reports suggest the Knaresborough Chamber business organisation was approached by a film production company with the request to keep Christmas decorations in the town up to help with the the festive activity in town has left residents curious to know what film it might woman told the BBC: "We asked a couple of the security guards and one said it was a Christmas film, someone else said it was something for Sky."Then we sat in a cafe and Googled and somebody said Kiefer Sutherland has been seen in Leeds so that he might be here."Sutherland is known for starring as counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer in drama series 24 and has most recently featured in Clint Eastwood's Juror #2. North Yorkshire has been used by many film and TV summer, sites near Ripon were used as locations for a sequel to British zombie shocker 28 Days 2021 Hollywood star Tom Cruise touched down in Levisham, near Pickering, to shoot scenes for the latest instalment in the Mission: Impossible popularity of the county with TV and film producers has not gone unnoticed by tourism bodies.A new TV and film location trail is due to be unveiled later this year in an effort to boost to highlights from North Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
