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Wayne Shorter, Sons of Kemet, Kamasi Washington and Leon Bridges among this year’s honourees

The Jacksons, Burt Bacharach and Brian Jackson are among this year’s headliners

Quincy Jones becomes the most honoured artist alive today

The Eventim Apollo Hammersmith will also host Joss Stone and Marc Almond in the series

Laura Mvula will headline a one-day mini festival in the capital on April 13th

Quincy Jones says the star was “beyond compare”

The Caribbean event has announced a star-studded programme

The Oscar-winner was due to play the UK in 2019

A decorated former soldier has called on Britain to help save him from jail in Dubai where he has spent the past four-and-a-half months despite not being charged with a crime.

The amount councils are spending on unaccompanied child asylum seekers has almost doubled in four years, the Local Government Association has said.

A man has been charged with racially aggravated criminal damage after "no blacks" was painted onto a front door.

MPs who left the Labour Party this week over antisemitism say they have faced increased online abuse from left-wing activists and Jeremy Corbyn supporters since quitting.

At least 70 people have died and dozens more have been injured in a warehouse fire in the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka.

Vladimir Putin has warned Moscow will match any US move to deploy nuclear missiles closer to Russia by placing its own missiles closer to the US or by deploying new, faster missiles.

A decorated former soldier has called on Britain to help save him from jail in Dubai where he has spent the past four-and-a-half months despite not being charged with a crime.

The Faroe Islands, a group of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic, will be closed to tourists for one weekend in April for a big clean-up.

Barclays said it has set aside £150m to cover the impact of "anticipated economic uncertainty in the UK" as it reported a slight fall in annual profits.

Standard Chartered has set aside $900m (£690m) to cover the cost of US and UK fines over misconduct going back more than a decade.

The government must reform the tax system to "level the playing field" between online and high street retailers, according to an MPs' blueprint for saving town centres.

Samsung has unveiled its first foldable smartphone - the first device of its kind from a major phone maker.

Pep Guardiola says Manchester City are not ready to challenge for the Champions League after their performance against Schalke.

Anthony Joshua expects to be mandated to fight Oleksandr Usyk next year, according to promoter Eddie Hearn.

Kilmarnock manager Steve Clarke says he was subjected to sectarian abuse during his side's Scottish Cup fifth-round replay against Rangers.

Tiger Woods insisted that Steve Stricker was an "overwhelming and unanimous" choice to be charged with the responsibility of regaining the Ryder Cup for Team USA next year.

MPs who left the Labour Party this week over antisemitism say they have faced increased online abuse from left-wing activists and Jeremy Corbyn supporters since quitting.

Three MPs have quit the Conservative Party and claimed Prime Minister Theresa May has failed to unite the country around Brexit.

A remarkable few days at Westminster has seen 11 MPs leave their parties and sign up for the new Independent Group.

Theresa May held a "constructive meeting" with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as she seeks to win changes to her Brexit agreement.

Samsung has unveiled its first foldable smartphone - the first device of its kind from a major phone maker.

The head of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre says the UK had established the "toughest and most rigorous oversight regime in the world for Huawei".

Microsoft has detected a hacking campaign targeting democratic institutions ahead of the European Union elections this year, from a group believed to be sponsored by the Russian government.

The UK would be "naive" and "irresponsible" to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to contribute to the UK's next mobile phone network, a defence think-tank says.