Bob Vylan have been dropped from the RADAR Festival in Manchester, with organisers confirming the news just days before the event is due to take place

The BBC issued a formal apology after broadcasting a controversial performance from the rap-punk group Bob Vylan at England's Glastonbury festival. Bob Vylan — outspoken critics of Israel's war on Gaza — led its crowd at last weekend's festival in a chant of "Death to the IDF,

The BBC had already said it should have cut the stream from Bob Vylan's performance at the music festival on Saturday which included on-stage chants of "death, death to the IDF", a reference to the Israel Defense Forces fighting a war in Gaza.