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Even as the blitz reduced the historic Devon port city to rubble, plans were afoot for major reconstruction. Now its remarkable hybrid city centre has been designated as a conservation areaIt’s a recurrent yearning, after an urban catastrophe, to rebuild better than before, to take the opportunity t...
Labour are pledging to reverse the first ever charges introduced in the NHS by giving everyone in England a free dental check-up.
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Picking the winner of the annual Cape/Observer/Comica award for emerging cartoonists was easy this year: Edo Brenes’s gentle tale, based on his Costa Rican grandparents’ lives, instantly won the judges’ hearts• Read winner Edo Brenes’s Memories of Limón here• Read runner-up Jessika Green’s Four Hand...
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(ACT)If you’re looking for a seasonal album with a touch of class, this is it. Echoes of Swing are a quartet who take delight in exploring new approaches to classic jazz styles. The results are unfailingly witty, affectionate and faultlessly played. They are based in Germany, have been together for...
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Matt Damon and Christian Bale are on sparky form in this retelling of the Ford v Ferrari battle for racing dominanceSlick, thrilling and saturated with vivid hues and 60s can-do optimism, Le Mans ’66, James Mangold’s follow-up to Logan, is a precision-tooled machine of a movie. A pedal-to-the-metal...
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Alexandra Palace, LondonNew York’s finest uptight post-punk rockers display some new-found California sensibilities in a show happy to have a bit of dumb funFor such an intricate band, Vampire Weekend know well the power of simple joys. During the encore, at the end of 26 songs played over nearly tw...
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Exhibition will show the artist had a broader range than the simple black-and-white line drawings for which he is famousThe work of Aubrey Beardsley, master of the stylised ink line, is still popular on postcards and posters 120 years after his short life ended. But a new London exhibition at Tate B...
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As the business booms, narrators talk tricky accents, lonely shifts and tackling 100 pages a dayThe author Bill Bryson is sitting before a lectern in Audible’s London headquarters, narrating his latest book, a disquisition on human biology called The Body: A Guide For Occupants. Seen through the win...
HMS Prince of Wales arrived in its home port of Portsmouth for the first time on Saturday.
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Lyric theatre, BelfastClear-eyed, redemptive and entertaining, Conor Mitchell’s finely crafted response to a notorious episode of homophobic hate speech deserves to be seen far and wideDriving over the hills into north Belfast, as fields give way to houses, the visitor is plunged into election fever...
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Ride pick-up app's algorithm offers drivers freedom while trapping them at the same time, experts say.
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The Australian star of Alice in Wonderland on her new film, a feminist take on Punch and Judy, and why her costumes need pocketsAustralian actor Mia Wasikowska trained as a ballet dancer in her teens before switching careers. In 2010 she was the highest-grossing film star in the world after playing...
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The star’s former assistant opens up about a 20-year relationship that weathered addiction, fame and secrecyThe story told by Robyn Crawford in the pages of A Song For You, an account of her decades-long relationship with Whitney Houston is tender, moving and painful to read, the history of a friend...
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If you’ve ever felt inadequate at a dinner party, this podcast-turned-lo-fi political show should help you survive adulthoodI don’t know if the realisation that you are truly not as smart as 16 years of schooling led you to believe you were is exclusive to me, but: have you ever arrived at a party –...
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At least eight people have been killed in violent clashes in Bolivia after security forces opened fire on supporters of the former president.