Budget Cuts - The Department for Culture, Media and Sport will receive an 8% cut to its budget for 2015 to 2016 after a deal was struck with the Treasury, according to press reports. It is expected that a reduction of around 5% will be passed on to arts organisations and museums, within the overall budget for the DCMS. Chancellor George Osborne will officially announce the full budget for all departments on 26 June in the Comprehensive Spending Review.
West End Boys - Jersey Boys is to transfer to the Piccadilly Theatre from March next year. The musical, which tells the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, is currently playing at the Prince Edward Theatre, where it opened in 2008. It will play its last show there on 9 March, 2014. The Piccadilly Theatre is currently home to Viva Forever!, which closes on 29 June, and will be replaced by the musical Dirty Dancing in July.
On The Wagon - Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis says he would prefer music fans to "drink much less" at the event. Festival-goers have been known to take wheelbarrows and trolleys of alcohol on to the site at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Ticket-holders for this month's event got an email warning them not to bring alcohol in a "wheeled device". In a message later on the event website Mr Eavis sought to clarify the policy by saying trolleys would be allowed but drink should be for personal use.
(Jim Evans)
