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The unnamed man asked for an injunction to stop his identity being reported in connection with allegations against him.

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The media personality has been on trial for three weeks, after pleading not guilty to all charges.

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The Guyana-born, British-based writer takes home the Royal Society of Literature prize honouring women writers over 60 who have broken barriers The poet Grace Nichols has been named the winner of the 2026 Royal Society o

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They have brought TV’s most famous cartoon couple to life in France for the last 38 years. Philippe Peythieu and Véronique Augereau tell all about working and living together for so long, still being lovebirds – and rare

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Chinese investors placing high value on AI despite unpopularity of Sanxingdui: Future Past China’s first fully AI-generated movie has flopped, earning just 1.7m yuan (£191,000) at the box office despite costing “tens of

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BAFTA nominated actor Josh O'Connor says he is "honoured" by the speculation he could be next Bond.

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With globe-spanning artists – including Charlotte Church doing angry electropop – the Flow project is hoping to make an impact at this month’s Cop31 Amid tense and long-winded negotiations, and with the future of the pla

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To be with the woman he loved, Max Olesker had to convert to Orthodox Judaism – which required an unwelcome operation. He relives a painful and sometimes infuriating journey When Max met Eliana at the Edinburgh fringe, t

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From Virginia Woolf’s horrifying views on eugenics to James Strachey’s seminal translations of Freud, the Bloomsbury set didn’t only experience mental illness, they shaped how society thinks about it ‘As an experience,”

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Mucus, alien gristle, a tentacle-bearing penis and, of course, the pregnancy of the title are all borne with deadpan calmness in this underplayed comedy In this amusingly silly exercise in gross-out body horror and batho

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Elsinore is in contention for 12 Bifas, including for Scott’s highly praised performance, while Clio Barnard’s I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, Ashley Walters’ Animol and Mike Leigh’s Tender Loving Care are also reco

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The significance of the poet and playwright’s homosexuality was repressed in Spain for decades – but a spate of recent work, including the film La Bola Negra, is redressing the balance for a new generation Patricia Langa

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The closure comes following a "regular review of rides and attractions", Alton Towers says.

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Radio host Owain Wyn Evans hopes Children in Need bike challenge will inspire others to 'make a change'.

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The Detroit techno pioneer, who has died aged 64 , blended funk and electronics with information-age philosophy to create music of huge power and influence Juan Atkins, the originator of techno who died on 31 October, sp

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Katharine Round’s documentary puts cameras in taxis where drivers and fares reflect on the disaster’s impact and talk of crowds of spectres and disappearing passengers In a manner similar to Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My

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Bodybuilding slang referring to making someone else look inferior beat entries concerning AI and climate crisis Mogging – meaning to outperform or outshine someone or something – has been named Collins’s word of the year

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This year’s festive special looks forward to the time when chatbots reign supreme and humans prepare to be stamped out for ever. What a treat! John Lewis Christmas ad stars Kristin Scott Thomas as glamorous granny on a g

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The author gets a backstage pass to the personal life of the world’s most famous woman – but what do we really learn? The magazine writer Jonathan Van Meter profiles very famous people for extremely glossy publications.

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Conspiracies and espionage abound as a secret society’s young initiate is sent to infiltrate the Catholic church for inexplicable reasons. Who knows what’s going on? With its candle-lit occult settings and ersatz Europud

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Devotees gather in Dhaka in Bangladesh and across India to observe All Souls’ Day, dedicated to remembering and honouring the dead. The occasion brings together members of the Christian community to offer prayers for dep

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Two outsider students at a super-strict high school find they are definitely not with the programme in Yûta Shimotsu’s body-bending sci-fi scarer Here is an intermittently amusing Japanese social satire about conformity

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Nicolas Rachline’s stunning book Elsebound is full of painterly photographs inspired by Edward Hopper and Blade Runner. He explains his uniquely haunting style Continue reading...

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The pop star on new music, The Traitors, and what really went down at James Acaster's banishment.

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A nurse with a drug habit is tempted by a gangster’s money in Tall Tales and Murder. Plus: an inside look at Burnham’s first 100 days. Here’s what to watch this evening 10.40pm, BBC One This breezy Irish crime caper is d

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Hundreds of items from Bowie's personal archive are set to go on display at the V&A in Dundee.

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He is the outstanding lyricist who propelled the Rocket Man to 300m sales. As Taupin releases a wistfully grouchy solo album, he talks about the joy of anonymity, his LA drinking gang – and owning a prize-winning bucking

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The slang term, which relates to outshining or upstaging someone, is one of 10 words celebrated.

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In his new memoir, the actor reveals he was slapped 27 times until he was dizzy for a scene director Nichols ‘didn’t even use’ Almost 60 years after The Graduate was released, Dustin Hoffman has revealed that making the

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Julian Fellowes’ high-society period drama has, somehow, picked up Emmys and reached its fourth series. Poor Meryl Streep must feel so awkward watching her daughter Louisa Jacobson in such a uniformly awful show A doctor

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The Welsh film star sent his then-wife and actress Elizabeth Taylor's unwanted clothes to his sister.

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The online music platform helped launch the careers of acts like Dave, Ed Sheeran and Jessie J.

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Cate McHugh has gone from busking on the streets of Cardiff to winner of The Voice UK.

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The Slow Horses star is among three actors reported to be in the running for the iconic movie role.

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Following a Syrian mother and daughter over a decade, Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes capture a family transformed There’s a startling moment in this BBC refugee documentary when Syrian mother Nisreen – in the apparently mi

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The artist who was inspired by Swiss glaciers, the Vietnam war and her own divorce was sidelined from St Ives’ art history – but finally has a major retrospective at Tate At the centre of Tate St Ives’ newly opened retro

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Sam Heughan is among four members of the production team due to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Television award.

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The songwriter is not planning a return to touring as he wants to spend more time with his wife.

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Barbican, London The Golden Record and the vastness of space inspire a fascinating but underdeveloped new work, alongside a richly rewarding performance from Randall Goosby As it hurtles away from Earth – 16bn miles and

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Bonnie Tyler's last studio recording will be released as a Christmas single on November 13.

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The veteran lifestyle guru has deleted a photo of herself wearing torn clothes and dirt on her face.

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The hallucinatory crisis of a war-scarred jurist with a painkiller dependency makes for frustrating reading Of the cohort of experimental novelists whose renown grew in the wake of the 2008 financial crash – names includ

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Written by Vicar of Dibley co-creator Paul Mayhew-Archer, who has the disease, Onwards and Sideways sees the actors play a couple who bond over their diagnoses – a devastating subject but laced with humour too, they say

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After more than two decades of studied neutrality, the journalist delivers some home truths about modern politics Laura Kuenssberg always swore she would never write a book. Amid all the vitriol hurled her way, the BBC’s

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Sharon Horgan executive produced this moreish road trip story about addiction, mishaps and revelations. Plus, the new one from Serial’s Sarah Koenig “I never thought I’d be back here with the fluorescent lights and lukew

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The expansive project has hype and money behind it – but how do you avoid it falling into the disappointment trap so many films end up stumbling into? If the history of failed Hollywood fantasy projects over the past 20

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Young, black and fuelled by self-help mantras, they were reputedly the best live band on Earth. As their wild first sessions are rereleased, the group talk about scaring club owners – and getting kicked out of the UK Old

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Adelphi theatre, London Theatre wunderkind’s adaptation of the Oscar-winning film has plenty of suspenseful stagecraft but struggles to match its subtlety Another new show, another old story. This film-to-stage adaptatio

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A Derren Brown-style experiment? A Ghostwatch stunt? Wild rumours have swirled around Bradley Walsh’s Million Pound Shot all week. The hoax has finally been revealed – and its message is terrifying In late October, some

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It’s funny, tense, stunningly forceful – the excellence of this franchise’s return is a bright flash of hopeful defiance We settle down in front of a fresh Blue Planet, trying to escape a weary sadness that stalks us fro

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The novelist receives passionate AI-written emails almost every day – but when he decided to take up one sender’s offer to find him new readers, the story took a darker turn There’s no humble way to say it: I get a lot o

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Coliseum, London Annilese Miskimmon’s new production of Puccini’s complex drama unmoors it from its church and state settings, but there are few gains, only losses in her radical reading. Christopher Purves’ brutish Scar

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As deadpan spoof documentarian Philomena Cunk returns with a new series on cinema, her creators discuss meeting J-Lo, their worst ever jobs – and why artificial intelligence is like mad cow disease She has tackled Britai

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Rapper Pos of the hip hop greats favours Barry White for the bedroom and sobs to Stevie Wonder, but which cheese-rock hit does he love on the sly? The first song I fell in love with My father could sing really well – he

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Celebrities have been embracing the scariest day of the year by dressing up as sport stars, dismembered limbs and unsold concert tickets.

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RPO/Petrenko (Harmonia Mundi) Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic’s take on Strauss’s tone poem is full of darkness and light, with an impressionist’s eye for details This is the third recording of Richard Strauss

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The supermodel and TV host provided a gory new shock at her New York event.

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An unmissable documentary play, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia with luminous Isis Hainsworth and ecstatic dance in a Norwegian museum are among November’s highlights Swiss director Milo Rau’s ripped-from-the-headlines approach t

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Certain stars have been tipped by industry experts as getting the biggest career boost after the show.

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The Austin and Love on the Spectrum star on meeting Billie Piper, the strangest thing he’s done for love and his extremely packed fantasy dinner party Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email The world fell in love wi

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The second series of the hit show reached its finale on Friday, attracting a whopping 11.2 million live viewers.

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She was scared of him but soon loosened the Shakespearean up – then watched him give Star Trek depth, even insisting scenes be rewritten for her. Captain Picard’s right-hand woman salutes her fabulous friend I’d been war

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Whether it’s immersive chiller Blackout or the campily scary 2:22: A Ghost Story, ‘tis the season to be scared witless at the theatre. But what’s the secret to making an audience gasp in terror? It was 1am. Total darknes

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The second series of the hit show reached its climax on Friday after attracting 15 million viewers.

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Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments I’m a huge fan of Muriel Spark, but wasn’t sure I needed another biography of her, yet James Baile

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Her unsparing fiction and true crime writing have made her one of Australia’s most controversial and celebrated authors. The author discusses relationships, resilience – and finding global recognition five decades into h

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Inspired by the world-famous Brit School, the college will be built in the centre of Bradford.

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Artists inspired by sound systems, acid house and hip hop changed the course of dance music forever.

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Lauren Bennett, who featured on LMFAO's hit song, was found dead by her husband.

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Tributes have been paid to the legendary Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart, who was born in Mirfield.

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Barbican, London The British composer’s ‘i have discovered the secret of death’ was beguiling and compelling, the centrepiece of a programme that saw Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra firing on all cylinders Stag

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Sampa Tembo’s genre-hopping third album meets the moment with charisma and cheek In 2019, as Sampa the Great, Sampa Tembo became the first woman to win an Australian Recording Industry Association award for hip-hop or ra

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With his striking voice, so rich and resonant, the actor blazed through the RSC – and his time in Hollywood only enriched him. Yet he was a great team player, capable of anything, as his double acts with Ian McKellen sho

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The actor died in Los Angeles following a "a brief and poignant journey" with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.

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Bereaved families say they were appalled to see footage of the Itaewon disaster included in Modern Warfare 4.

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Voicing the main character in Black Tides Draga’s Wake led to me making the kinds of noises I haven’t made since my honeymoon but also one of my favourite moments as a father “I listen to you on the radio and I keep hear

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The English actor began his career on stage before finding fame as the captain of the USS Enterprise.

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His career on stages and screens spanned seven decades but came to be defined by his roles on some of the most popular sci-fi franchises in history.

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​Fronted by Mark Sandman​,​ the group brought enigmatic, elegant rock to post-grunge America. As lost demos surface, those closest to Sandman remember a man who grabbed on to life’s joys It’s early 1998, and at Fort Apac

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He got famous playing video games but now you're more likely to see Seán McLoughlin in one.

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Theatre Royal Bath Edward Bond’s play about consumerism and the strength of humans in dark times is hugely enlivened by Saunders and her tight-lipped pomposity When describing his own play, the late playwright Edward Bon

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When 17-year-0ld Danny Donelly got a bank loan to open a record shop and sell dancefloor-filling electronic music, he little knew how he would help revolutionise his town and dance music at large In the early 1990s, the

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Liquid Static Studio; PC You take on the role of flight attendant in this clever and absorbing retro-style game that veers from daft horror spoof to genuinely disturbing There was always something creepy about the job-si

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Andy Warhol’s skulls and Pierre Bonnard’s fruit have more in common than you might think. Plus: the world’s rudest cartoon character is up to dirty tricks again Continue reading...

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‘Les didn’t wear gloves as he needed to be able to feel the bees so he didn’t crush them. “Should I put them on my face?” he said. “Sure!” I replied’ The jumping-off point for my Bare Handed series was a bird becoming tr

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Young Vic, London Recalling Boko Haram’s abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014, Theresa Ikoko’s fierce and tender play reveals how three teenagers find hope and laughter under the most horrific circumstances Three g

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Some fans take the week off to read the latest instalment of the A Court of Thorns and Roses series.

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Whether you favour spooky fairtales, satanic card games or infernal hijinks at the chip shop there are all manner of fresh top scarers at large this witching season Tis almost All Hallows’ Eve and naturally, the thoughts

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A low-budget building by the Olympic site that was never meant to last has been given a £4m revamp full of Italian pizzazz. Now The Yard is putting bums on (heated) seats – and Ian McKellen is soon to star Since the 2012

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MK Gallery, Milton Keynes With his heaps of mud, decaying sheds and chimney-filled skies, Lowry depicts northern England as a spirit-crushing dystopia While people queue at the British Museum to see the Battle of Hasting

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Fondation Cartier, Paris Ibrahim Mahama put an entire factory in this exhibition exploring Ghana before and after it was ripped to shreds by colonialism. And it’s just one dazzling installation in a show full of hope Ibr

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The playwright’s daughter found Catch Me Who Can after her mother’s death. Now it has become a compelling audio drama with Toby Jones and Rita Tushingham Was Shelagh Delaney a one-hit wonder? Absolutely not. Aside from A

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