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Complementary medicines for weight loss not justified, study suggests

Some complementary medicines result in marginal weight loss but do not benefit health, study suggests.

How many cases in your area?

Explore the data on coronavirus in the UK and find out how many cases there are in your area.

On my radar: Fiona Shaw’s cultural highlights

The award-winning actor on the genius of Fritz Lang, the human cost of Homer’s Iliad and where to find the best live music in IrelandBorn in County Cork, Ireland, in 1958, Fiona Shaw studied philosophy at University College Cork before training at Rada. Her stage roles have ranged from Sophocles to...

Charlatan review – inside the mind of a prickly mystic

Agnieszka Holland’s austere drama about a famous Czech healer sets his internal conflict against the turbulence of eastern EuropeA local legend in the mid-20th century Czech Republic who scrutinised the urine of his clients and made diagnoses based on a blend of science and mysticism, Jan Mikolášek...

Five Towns Reprieved

In an article yesterday we explained that six municipalities were over 1,000 and might be closed, four of which might not... well, five have been left open.

St Vincent: Daddy’s Home review – a compelling family affair

(Caroline/Loma Vista)Channelling 70s New York funk and her father’s release from prison, the ever brilliant Annie Clark loosens up on her engagingly soulful sixth albumAnnie “St Vincent” Clark may exaggerate the detail, tell oblique stories or get a little carried away in the dressing-up box, but he...

Tennis Elbow review – a nonstop rally of jokes

Pitlochry Festival theatre, onlineJohn Byrne revisits the terrain of his 1977 hit spoof Writer’s Cramp to follow the fortunes of artist Pamela Crichton Capers in this dizzy audio dramaPell-mell, helter skelter, the joshing wordplay rains down. No chance for parody is resisted, no phrase left unturne...

Leonardo da Vinci bear drawing expected to fetch £12m at auction

Head of a Bear is to be sold in London in July by Christie’s auction houseA drawing of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci is expected to fetch up to £12m at auction.The picture, titled Head of a Bear, is being sold in London by Christie’s. It will go on display in New York and Hong Kong before being auctio...

Emma Donoghue on writing Room: ‘I toned down some of the horror of the Fritzl case’

Donoghue’s bestseller drew on the case of Felix Fritzl, who was held captive in a dungeon by his father, and her observations of her own childrenI got the notion to write Room in 2008 when I was driving to a book event and mulling over a news story from a few days before about a five-year-old called...

BBC Young Musician 2020 final review – a golden year

Available onlinePercussionist Fang Zhang triumphed with an exhilarating marimba rhapsody in an evening of dazzling performances by three teen virtuososWhether you attribute the mood of heightened emotion to the effects of lockdown, or to the exceptional quality of the playing, the 2020 BBC Young Mus...

Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online

From live streams of new plays to classics from the archive, here are some of the top shows online now or coming soon The stage on screen: our guide to films about theatrePreviously seen at Edinburgh fringe’s Zoo Southside in 2018, this award-winning physical theatre show about death and rebirth is...