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The UK’s Labour party has pledged to keep the creative sector tax reliefs during an online cross-party debate hosted today (June 20) by Creative UK, ahead of the July 4 general election.

“Of course we’re going to keep the tax reliefs. We invented the idea of tax reliefs right at the beginning,” said Labour shadow minister for creative industries and digital Chris Bryant. The film tax relief was first introduced in 2007 under a Labour government.

He did not go into detail about any potential changes to the current credits that Labour could implement, simply noting: “Of course we’ve got...

The UK’s Labour party has pledged to keep the creative sector tax reliefs, during an online cross-party debate hosted today (June 20) by Creative UK, ahead of the July 4 general election.

“Of course we’re going to keep the tax reliefs. We invented the idea of tax reliefs right at the beginning,” said Labour shadow minister for creative industries and digital Chris Bryant. The film tax relief was first introduced in 2007, under a Labour government.

He did not go into detail about any potential changes to the current credits that Labour could implement, simply noting: “Of course we’ve got...

Creative UK, the national membership body for the cultural and creative industries, is to host an online general election debate on June 20, in which party representatives will answer questions on key issues.

It will be attended by Lucy Frazer, the Conservative secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms); Chris Bryant (Labour’s shadow minister for creative industries and digital); Tim Clement-Jones; and Jack Lenox.

David Bull, Reform UK deputy leader, has been invited but has yet to confirm.

“In just a matter of weeks, we’ll have a new UK government,” said Caroline Norbury, chief executive of Creative UK.

This year's Soccer Aid has so far raised £4.2 million, as the charity event saw the Rest Of The World defeat England 4-2 at Manchester United's Old Trafford tonight (June 8).

Almost 70,000 fans witnessed the World's Clarence Seedorf score a hat-trick and a chip from Nicky Byrne cancel out goals from England's Jamie Redknapp and Kevin Phillips.

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The World were managed by José Mourinho and captained by Michael Sheen, while Sam Allardyce took charge of England with assistance from Robbie Williams.

By full time, ITV viewers had pledged over £2 million to Unicef's work saving children's lives, which will be matched by the UK Government pound for pound and brings the total to £4.2 million so far. The final figure will be announced in due course.

David Bull, executive director of Unicef UK,...

by Matt Hawkins

There's a good chance you may have seen Jed Henry's work before. A little while ago, he ran a Kickstarter to fund a series of illustrations that reinterpreted various iconic game characters in the style of Japanese woodblock prints, formally known as Ukiyo-e.

His Ukiyo-e Heroes initiative was quite successful, so he's back for round two. But this time, Henry wants to make a video game himself, one featuring the same art style.

Since it's an original creation, the game is called Edo Superstar and will star a "small-town monkey with big dreams" named Masaru:

The game was originally conceived as an iOS and Android only game, but due to popular demand, it's also coming to PC and Mac. Perhaps the request was due to the fact that most smart phone fight games have poor controls, though the proposed mechanics of Edo Superstar seems solid enough.

A beautiful spring has sprung here in Austin, Texas. Bluebonnets are everywhere, it's not yet 100 degrees and, now that the city has recovered from South By Southwest, Austin will soon be celebrating the chance to prove itself in the culinary space with its first-ever Food & Wine Festival.

With chatter about "Austin cool" coming from many directions these days, the city will draw yet another national crowd from April 27 to 29 to eat, drink, learn and be merry with headliner chefs such as Masaharu Morimoto, Marcus Samuelsson, Michelle Bernstein, Gail Simmons and Tyson Cole, among many others, and music from Lucinda Williams and Mayor Hawthorne. In contrast to the Texas Hill Country fest of previous years, the Austin proper version will be centrally located, officially brought to town by Food & Wine magazine of Aspen fame, and expanded to include a line-up of local greats as well as international heavy hitters.

This year...