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Coroner reaches conclusion of accidental death and says author died as a result of a traumatic subdural haematomaThe author Jilly Cooper suffered a fatal head injury during a fall at her Gloucestershire home, an inquest has heard.Cooper, 88, whose 18 n…
Star of Japan’s cinematic golden age, who collaborated with Kurosawa and played the lead in Kobayashi’s Human Condition trilogy, died from pneumoniaThe Japanese stage and screen actor Tatsuya Nakadai, whose celebrated performances symbolised a golden a…
The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 awardJustine Jordan: The risky strategy of Booker winner Flesh pays offHungarian-British auth…
Samir Shah says BBC must ‘champion impartiality’, as Ed Davey warns UK must ‘defend our democracy from foreign interference’BBC director general resigns – latest updatesThe BBC’s chair has apologised for an “error of judgment” in the way a Panorama doc…
Speaking at a screening of hit play The Fifth Step, the actor reveals he is ‘not comfortable at all on camera’Slow Horses star Jack Lowden has said it was a “relief” to return to the stage in the intense role of an alcoholic in the West End hit The Fif…
Since political violence, in particular war, is a quintessential instrument of colonialism, the praeter-colonial mind would be remiss not to inquire into its nature and changing character.
The Land in Winter has shortest odds of victory, ahead of Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and SunnyAndrew Miller is the bookmakers’ favourite to win the 2025 Booker prize, which will be announced on Monday evening in London.The English author top…
Protest at Mowaa comes amid dispute over ownership of Benin bronzes looted by British colonial forcesProtesters have disrupted a preview event at a major new museum in the Nigerian city of Benin that has become embroiled in a row over the restitution o…
Old Laundry theatre in Bowness-on-Windermere will change its name next year and premiere show to mark 10th anniversary of comedian’s deathA theatre in the Lake District is to be renamed for the comedian and playwright Victoria Wood and will stage a new…
Head of entertainment Kalpna Patel-Knight says hit show ‘promises to be just as unmissable as the first’The Celebrity Traitors will return for a second series in 2026 after a phenomenal debut that broke audience records, the BBC has said.Ardross Castle…