Aidan to take legal action against PBS due to Eurovision disqualification

Jan 26 2023

Singer Aidan Cassar has reportedly asked PBS to freeze a decision taken which disqualified him from participating in the Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

PBS received a letter by Cassar’s lawyer, Times of Malta revealed, which asks them to suspend the decision. Legal action would follow suit should they refuse the decision, the letter reportedly states.

The singer has argued that he has been singled out for punishment by PBS as other contestants had also published social media posts promoting their entries.

He also claimed that he was never given an opportunity to defend himself and still has not received an explanation about the specific reasons for which he was disqualified.

The singer is being represented by lawyers Franco Debono, Marion Camilleri and Charles Mercieca.

According to competition rules, singers are banned from posting about their entry from the quarter final stage onwards. PBS stated that Cassar was repeatedly warned that he was not to do so but the singer reportedly ignored the warnings and published multiple posts.

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Brillanti is officially back! And this time it’s all about dance!

Jan 26 2023

Last year, presenter Joseph Chetcuti set out on a voyage to discover who, out of Malta’s most talented musicians, had what it takes to be crowned ‘Brillanti.’

That turned out to be violinist Samuel Cutajar, who bagged the €10,000 prize whilst sedimenting his place as an absolute master of his craft.

But the search is not over yet as this year, Brillanti will be coming back to your TV screens on the 17th of February one ONE TV, to find Malta’s most brilliant dancers!

That’s right – Joseph, along with a new panel of professional dancers from a wide variety of styles and disciplines, will be sifting through Malta’s best of the best in the industry.

Highlighting dancers’ abilities beyond background acts and giving them the spotlight to showcase not just their performative skill but also their determination and inner life, Brillanti Season 2 will soon show you what Malta’s dance scene is truly made of…

And not to mention, find out who will be the dancer to bag the €15,000 cash prize!

So stay tuned to Brillanti’s social media as well as MaltaDaily as we keep you up to date with all that will be going down during this new season!

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More storms expected during the next few days

Jan 26 2023

Speaking to Malta Daily, MET Office Forecaster Patrick Zahra explained that up until Tuesday, the weather will not be stable as Malta is expecting more storms to break out.

Zahra explained that the wind will be picking up and the islands will experience quite a lot of rain.

“At present we cannot say that we will have any improvements in the weather since it seems that the weather will stay pretty much as is”, said Patrick Zahra whilst explaining that we will continue to feel these cold temperatures which are normal for this time of year, “nothing out of the ordinary.”

The MET Office forecaster also gave us details of what is happening at the moment. He said that cold air has come down from the north of Europe and slowly started to fall on Malta after it reached Italy.

It currently feels cold because while this cold air system came down, it created what is called low pressure and with the added wind the temperature continued to drop in what is called the wind chill factor.

In addition, Zahra explained that this current air system will stay until next week.

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Asteroid to pass earth closer than some satellites in orbit

Jan 26 2023

Earth is about to have a very close encounter with an asteroid the size of a bus as it passes by our home planet.

The large space rock is known as 2023 BU, which will zoom right over the southern tip of South America tonight. The closest expected approach is that of 3,600km, which would make it a pretty close shave.

However, plenty of experts have said that there is absolutely no need to panic. Despite the asteroid entering thee arc occupied by Earth’s telecommunications satellites, the asteroid would likely disintegrate long before making contact with the ground.

The asteroid was picked up last week by an amateur astronomer named Gennadiy Borisov who operates from Nauchnyi, Crimea.

Follow up observations have let experts refine their knowledge about it and, most importantly, the orbit. This is how astronomers can be confident that it will miss Earth, with the chances of hitting a satellite being very small.

But even if the asteroid was on a direct collision course, it would not do as much damage. With an estimated size of 3.5m to 8.5m across, the rock would disintegrate high in the atmosphere while fizzling out in a spectacular fireball.

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