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5 days ago

The presenter wakes her family up by blasting out Cal Orff and gets the ick from Chris de Burgh, but which lyrically problematic rap banger is she a secret fan of?

The first song I fell in love with

14 days ago

The British pop star will lead the 2026 London literature festival in collaboration with her Service95 book club, as part of the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary celebrations

Brit award-winning pop…

16 days ago

Ruben Saraiva grew up as a 'shy' boy who loved football in Reading, Berkshire but now faces life in a hellhole jail in Albania for his role in an orchestrated gang hit on a father of four.

18 days ago

Ruben Saraiva, who grew up in Reading, Berkshire, from the age of four, was disguised as a delivery driver when he strolled into a Balkan seaside resort owned by Ardian Nikulaj and blasted him six ti…

45 days ago

Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into mere ‘reading for pleasure’?

It is the UK’s National Year of Reading. Specifically, this governmen…

72 days ago

It was hard to communicate with my mother or father, until reading a book out loud led to a discovery

The novelist Ian McEwan has advocated for the extension of assisted dying to people with dementia,…

3 months ago

The first time I suffered from hair loss, it was 15 years ago, when I was only 38. In a hair salon in Reading, in December 2011, a young stylist pulled back my hair and caught his breath in horror.

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