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Strictly Come Dancing's former judge Arlene Phillips has spoken of her hurt and pain at being axed, admitting she no longer likes Saturdays, the day of the show's broadcast. Arlene Phillips was removed from the judging panel...
Strictly Come Dancing stars prepare for Blackpool show Strictly Come Dancing contestants embraced the seaside spirit as they donned ''kiss me quick'' hats to prepare for an edition from Blackpool. Strictly Come Dancing...
The simple four-digit solution to making a lacklustre collaboration One of the most "hotly anticipated" tracks of last year was Lost, the collaboration between indie giants Coldplay and rap megastar Jay Z. Another "hotly...
Signed linocut by Picasso offered in 10:10 competition Ever fancied owning an original Picasso? How about a signed one? And what if it was also something that helped the fight against global warming? Well, the dreams of one...
Inside the new-look Ashmolean The UK's oldest public museum will reopen later after a £61m redevelopment. The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, in Oxford, which first opened in the 17th Century, was renovated to double...
Celebrated for the Moomins, Finnish novelist Tove Jansson also wrote many books for adults. Being able to read one of her best novels in English for the first time is like discovering buried treasure In 1962 Tove Jansson...
Distance might lend more weight to Ben Elton's riffs Topical fiction is incredibly difficult to do. Although lead times aren't what they were, newspapers and magazines traditionally cover the now, with the job of books being to...
Alan Bennett's new play imagines a meeting between Britten and Auden 25 years after they fell out irrevocably. But why did their creative relationship go wrong? This is a sample of the writing Benjamin Britten set to music in...
A child excreting Scrabble tiles could not have come up with a worse name for Newcastle United's historic stadium Of all the legendary stadiums I've wanted to visit all my life – San Siro, the Maracanã, Fenway Park – the one...
When the Bauhaus art school opened in 1919, more women applied than men - so why have we never heard of them? Bobbed, geometric haircuts. Chunky jewellery. Vegetarian diets. Saxophone playing. Breathing exercises. Painting....
