Film (UK) Viveik Kalra: ‘I feel represented, like finally there’s a part of me on the screen’The Guardian - Sam WolfsonHaving gone straight from drama school to starring opposite a childhood idol, Viveik Kalra has had a dream start. Here, the 21-year-old star of Blinded By The Light talks PlayStation, Bruce Springsteen
Steve Smith Steve Smith ruled out of Ashes second Test final day with concussionThe Guardian - Sign inAustralia batsman Steve Smith has been ruled out of the final day of the second Ashes Test against England at Lord’s with delayed concussion, Cricket Australia has announced. Smith was struck on the neck
The Theatre Jonny Pelham review – darkest of subjects brings compassion and hilarityThe Guardian - Brian LoganThe Caves, Edinburgh The comic turns his childhood trauma into a warm and deeply reflective show laced with jet-back humour An iron law of Edinburgh shows is that your trauma is your big reveal. So it’s
The Theatre Desiree Burch review – a scorching, sweat-soaked odyssey to nowhereThe Guardian - Brian LoganDesiree Burch is out of the traps at a gallop in her new show: the first 10 minutes all but pin you to the back of the auditorium. This is her story of a day at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, a hallucinogenic
Rugby League Batley Bulldogs rugby league player Archie Bruce dies aged 20The Guardian - Press AssociationBatley Bulldogs have announced that scrum-half Archie Bruce has died at the age of 20. A statement from the rugby league club said that Bruce was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday morning, after his
The Beatles G7 leaders need some clear-the-air talks rather than fake smilesThe Guardian - Larry ElliottBack in 1975 the French president Valéry Giscard D’Estaing had a brainwave. The great powers of the west were reeling from their first post-war recession, which had led to both higher unemployment and
Omar al-Bashir Deposed Sudan president to face corruption charges in courtThe Guardian - Jason Burke and Zeinab Mohammed Salih in KhartoumOmar al-Bashir, the former president of Sudan, will appear in court on Mondayfor the first day of a high-profile corruption trial that could end in the deposed autocratic ruler being jailed for many years.
Media Industry Paul Dacre to present TV series on Daily Mail and modern BritainThe Guardian - Jim WatersonPaul Dacre is to become a television presenter after Channel 4 signed up the former editor of the Daily Mail to take part in documentary series exploring how he helped shape modern Britain. In The World
Books Sensible Footwear by Kate Charlesworth review – an instant classicThe Guardian - Rachel CookeFifty pages into her marvellous new book, the illustrator and cartoonist Kate Charlesworth briefly breaks off to describe her Barnsley schooldays. Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide, part memoir, part history,
News Brexit: leaked papers predict food shortages and port delaysThe Guardian - Rowena Mason Deputy political editorThe UK will be hit with a three-month meltdown at its ports, a hard Irish border and shortages of food and medicine if it leaves the EU without a deal, according to government documents on Operation Yellowhammer.
UK News Search continues after Lucas Dobson, six, falls into Kent riverThe Guardian - PA MediaPolice have resumed searches for missing six-year-old Lucas Dobson, who fell into the River Stour while fishing. Specialist diving teams and emergency services are being supported by a large group of volunteers
World News How a pan-European picnic brought down the Iron CurtainThe Guardian - Shaun Walker in SopronWhen the end finally came for the Iron Curtain, it was not bulldozers or hammers that struck one of the first decisive blows, but a picnic. Thirty years ago this Monday, on 19 August 1989, thousands of
David Goffin Daniil Medvedev stuns Novak Djokovic to set up Cincinnati final with GoffinThe Guardian - ReutersRussia’s Daniil Medvedev stunned the world No 1 and defending champion, Novak Djokovic, in the Western and Southern Open semi-finals on Saturday. The No 9 seed dramatically stepped up his game after losing
North Sea Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North SeaThe Guardian - Harriet SherwoodBy 7.30am all the cod at Peterhead fish market had been sold, snapped up by competing buyers wearing thick fleeces, woolly hats and rubber boots against the chill of the vast indoor warehouse. A gaggle
Lifestyle (UK) It’s high time fuchsias were back in fashionThe Guardian - James WongWhen it comes to horticultural fashion, it would be hard to pick a group of plants quite so resolutely in the style doldrums as fuchsias. Yet, while the pastel-coloured frills of the Barbara Cartland we
Auschwitz In brief: Devotion; Dinner With Edward; The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz – reviewsThe Guardian - Hannah BeckermanNovels about nannies have become common since the success of Leïla Slimani’s Lullaby, but Stevens’s is complex and psychologically taut. Since moving to New York from Oregon, Ella has been lonely and she
A bunch of Nimbys won’t let a Denver business owner sell his diner – is that fair?The Guardian - Gene MarksTom Messina has worked hard over the past 20 years making omelettes and burgers for thousands of loyal customers at his diner – Tom’s Diner – in Denver. Now the guy has an opportunity to sell his business
George R.R. Martin George RR Martin: ‘Game of Thrones finishing is freeing, I’m at my own pace’The Guardian - Sarah HughesIf George RR Martin could be granted one wish, it would be for more time. The bestselling author of the Song of Ice and Fire saga, the books that became television phenomenon Game of Thrones, is in London
UK News Didcot power station: homes without electricity after towers demolishedThe Guardian - Aaron WalawalkarPower has been restored to tens of thousands of homes in Oxfordshire that were left without electricity after the demolition of a disused power station’s cooling towers. Explosive charges were used to
Network Rail Network Rail's Andrew Haines: 'We've stopped the rot a bit'The Guardian - Gwyn TophamIt would be a dereliction of duty for me to sit back pending someone else’s view A structure saying the secretary of state should be accountable for operational decisions on the railway is barking mad
Priti Patel Patel: country must recognise police's sacrifice in wake of PC murderThe Guardian - PA MediaPriti Patel has said the country must do more to recognise the sacrifice made by those in policing, as she paid tribute to the murdered police officer Andrew Harper. The home secretary described the officer
The Theatre Sexy Lamp review – actor shines stark light on the misogyny of her industryThe Guardian - Chris Wiegand‘We saw your boobs! We saw your boobs!” The words from Seth MacFarlane’s opening number at the 2013 Oscars – in which the host name-checked the nude scenes of female actors in the audience – are heard
Queen Victoria TV tonight: a wickedly enthralling French thriller may be your next boxset bingeThe Guardian - Mike Bradley, Ali Catterall, Phil Harrison, Graeme Virtue and Paul HowlettThis wickedly enthralling French psychological thriller – about the mayhem inflicted on a doctor’s life by intruders who enter her home, murder her husband and kidnap her baby daughter – has a fine pedigree
Play buttonOpinion (UK) Has Boris Johnson hatched a cunning no-deal Brexit plan?The Guardian - Stewart Lee'We may all have to develop a taste for non-standard foods, like Vaseline ®, or insects, in the darkness before the New Dawn' How many small plastic toy egg casings could be hidden in, for example, a Gove?
Play buttonFilm (UK) Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘We should tell whatever stories we like’The Guardian - Kate KellawaySomething clicked in me and I started to think: could she possibly be right for this part? Some of what you’re touching upon is tricky territory that we have been trying to explore “I tried to remember
travel news Voyage of discovery to St HelenaThe Guardian - Mike MacEacheranSomething is circling our boat in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. We are off the coast of Flagstaff Bay, sailing in slow motion on glassy-calm water, and a frenzy of dorsals and dual-lobbed fins
Austria Riding the Transcontinental: my saddle-sore sprint across EuropeThe Guardian - Nick Van Mead in BrestAs I rolled along quiet lanes in the mountains of Serbia, a ferocious barking delivered a jolt of adrenaline and canine feet approached my bike fast from the side. I longed for the crashing sound of dog-on-fence,
Lifestyle (UK) Snot on a parent's shoulders should be worn as a badge of honourThe Guardian - Séamas O’ReillyI find the topic so distasteful I’ll refrain from too much detail On those rare occasions when I do leave the house for social interactions, I’ve been bringing little mementos from home with me. Having
UK News Appointment of ‘biased’ Carlile to Prevent review ‘shatters its credibility’The Guardian - Mark Townsend and Aroob RajaThe appointment of Lord Carlile to review the UK’s flagship counter-terrorism strategy has breached the government’s code on public appointments, a coalition of civil liberties groups have claimed, because
Books The Unsettling of Europe by Peter Gatrell review – the messy truth about migrationThe Guardian - Jonathan PortesChurchill wanted to fight the 1955 election with the slogan 'Keep England White' When I first worked on migration issues in the Cabinet Office at the turn of the millennium, a letter crossed my desk from
