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  • 23/06/2025
The Week Ahead with The Yorkshire Post features writer John Blow.
Transcript
00:00Hi there, it's John Blow from the Oxford Post. Here's what's coming up in the week ahead.
00:06World leaders will meet at the next NATO summit in the Netherlands tomorrow and Wednesday.
00:11They'll convene in The Hague to discuss topics including support for Ukraine and whether to
00:15implement a new target for member states to spend 5% of their respective GDP on defence.
00:22Glastonbury Festival opens on Wednesday before a pet line-up over the weekend includes
00:27main stage headliners The 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo.
00:32Yorkshire bands on the bill include Kaiser Chiefs, Self Esteem, English Teacher and Terror Vision.
00:38Elsewhere in music it will be the end of an hour on Friday as Sheffielders say goodbye to the lead mill.
00:45Miles Kane will perform the last gig at the venue at least in its current guise
00:49after the people who run it announced in May that they would have to leave the premises
00:52after losing an appeal against eviction. And Bradford Literature Festival will also start on Friday
00:59bringing accomplished authors to the city including John Cooper Clark,
01:03Steph McGovern, Hamza Youssef, Grace Dent and Ash Sarkar.

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