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Contractors are finalising works to Ashbourne’s Market Place, making it pedestrian-friendly and more attractive for events. Led by Derbyshire County Council, the project includes wider pavements, better crossings, new trees, restored setts, improved lighting, and modern seating and cycle stands. Asp...
The look of the new pedestrian bridge is being hailed as a 'real stunner'
The healing power of gardens; celebrating an abolitionist; hope in the toughest times; a gladiator romantasy and moreThe Butterfly House by Harry Woodgate, Andersen, £12.99Miss Brown’s wild garden scares most people, but when Holly discovers her reclusive neighbour’s sadness, she decides to help tur...
The character created by Helen Fielding and played by Zellweger in four films, is to be immortalised in bronze in Leicester Square where it will become a permanent fixtureBridget Jones, the character created by Helen Fielding and played by Renée Zellweger in four films, is to be immortalised in bron...
With Hollywood favouring franchise fare, horror films have become the last bastion of inventive film-making, producing a new generation of auteurs in the processFright club: eight film-makers who are redefining modern horrorEvery week at my local multiplex, there is a new horror film. If it’s not a...
Curve theatre, LeicesterCathy Tyson and Patrick Robinson dazzle in this knockout production of Edward Albee’s verbally violent play, full of misogynistic one-liners and tarnished soulsEdward Albee’s 1962 drama of two academic couples boozing and bruising for four hours before dawn rings with boxing...
As his groundbreaking opera about the death penalty comes to the UK, Heggie reflects on its enduring power and the story’s relevance in an age of division‘But you’re so young!” Julie Andrews exclaimed on opening night of Dead Man Walking, 25 years ago at the San Francisco Opera. I had pushed my way...
(Naya Beat)Punjabi folk vocals backed by hammering electronic percussion, disco basslines and fizzing synth melody: a key predecessor to the Asian dance music explosionIn 1982, London-based Sikh devotional singer Mohinder Kaur Bhamra recorded a true oddity. Accompanied by her son Kuljit on an early...
Queen’s Hall, EdinburghThe standup zeroes in on hormonal chaos and domestic indignities with rage, absurdity and self-awarenessTalk about a hot flush: menopause, and its peri-predecessor, have gone in no time from being The Great Unmentionable to a favoured subject of middle-aged female comics. Afte...
The Italian director’s career was briefly derailed when his ‘scandalous’ affair with the Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman hit the headlines in the 1950s. Their daughter Isabella remembers a devoted parent and a brilliant film-makerIn June 1977, Roberto Rossellini died suddenly of a heart attack, home i...
(BMG)Allen’s first album in seven years traces the fallout from an open relationship, but as well as being cathartic and candid, these stylistically varied songs have melodies that sparkleIt is seven years since Lily Allen last released an album. No Shame was Mercury-nominated and far better reviewe...
Exclusive: Rob Munday claims he is co-creator of 2004 images but Levine has called him only a collaboratorAn artist who claims he is a co-creator of two of the most famous images ever taken of the late queen is suing Chris Levine, the photographer who claims sole authorship of the portraits, in a hi...
(Harmonia Mundi) Violinist Amandine Beyer and the musicians of Gli Incogniti juxtapose original works by Vivaldi and the Marcello brothers with the Bach compositions they inspired and influenced Back in the 18th century, German rulers who wanted the best for their courts sent out scouts to bring bac...
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon spin-off returns – with a surprise guest star. Plus, soothe your soul with Cheshire’s sheepdog handlers. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Sky MaxHere we go again with the third season of this spin-off from The Walking Dead – and Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Mel...
The major plans have moved a big step forward