Russia bombs Kyiv factory producing missiles claimed to have sunk Moskva
After the attack on the Moskva on Thursday, the Kremlin initially said its weaponry was not damaged and it was en route back to its home base…
The beautiful Spanish fishing town with top-notch tapas and sherry – but hardly any British tourists
In Barbate, you have to eat at El Campero, which has an astounding almadraba tasting menu, matched by equally astounding sherries – sherry is of course only…
Ignore the middle-class naysayers – fly-and-flop holidays have never been better
Minimum sightseeing Like buskers, cultural wonders will only make you feel guilty for ignoring them. Dubai may be preferable to Rome, for example, if you intend to…
Edgar Winter keeps the blues alive and kicking – plus this week’s best albums
Edgar Winter, Brother Johnny ★★★★☆ What a resilient form of music the blues has turned out to be. From misty origins amongst African-Americans of the post-Civil War…
What makes a great Agatha Christie adaptation
What could be more of an Easter treat than a new Agatha Christie? This week, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, an adaptation of Christie’s 1934 novel, launched…
Does Paul Verhoeven’s controversial ‘nunsploitation’ film betray the real Benedetta?
Even when he departs from her account of Benedetta Carlini, whose story she unearthed by accident in the late 1970s in Florence’s Medici archives as an aspiring…
Bob Odenkirk interview: ‘Without CPR, I’d have been dead in minutes’
“I thought it would help!” he exclaims. “And it did help. When you work out that hard, you increase some of the veins around your heart. So when I…
Why teenagers are going to love this tender, modern-day ‘Romeo & Romeo’
“Wow. It’s terrible being a teenager,” says a kindly teacher, halfway through Heartstopper (Netflix). He’s half-wincing in empathy with a troubled student and half-winking at the audience….
Sexual assault and cronyism: Tory MP Craig Whittaker on consulting on Anatomy of a Scandal
Another week, another scandal in Westminster. This week, it is the news that the Prime Minister, his wife and the Chancellor of Exchequer have all been fined…
What’s on TV tonight: Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough, Anatomy of a Scandal & more
Football: FA Cup semi-finalsSat/Sun, BBC One/ITVThe two best football teams on the planet meet for the second weekend in a row after last Sunday’s epic Premier League…
Spearmint the seal sent to rehab after becoming ‘over-friendly’ with beachgoers
Mr Jarvis told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “In Spearmint’s case here, the whole problem started when she started being fed by people in the wild, either…
UK weather: Good Friday sees hottest day of the year
The UK is basking in the warmest day of the year after temperatures hit 22C in London on Good Friday. The mercury soared to the new high…
HGV driver tackles Just Stop Oil protester after they target wrong vehicle
Mr Baker said the protestors’ actions had cost him “a lot of money” and that he would be taking legal action. “[The protestors] were vandalising the vehicle….
Sea of Tranquility review: Emily St John Mandel’s time-travel mess is no Station Eleven
Three people, separated by centuries, experience the same, haunting phenomenon. They are each simultaneously in three places at once, hearing and seeing and feeling the same things….
Goldfrapp conjure up swooningly cinematic songs from another time and place
Maundy Thursday became mournful Thursday at London’s Royal Festival Hall as Goldfrapp played their debut album, Felt Mountain, in its entirety. Released in 2000, Felt Mountain mixed…
The David Lynch rumours are growing by the day
Still, the question remains as to whether or not there is actually anything to play. One possibility is that what existed of his seemingly abandoned Netflix project…
How climate change is complicating Zimbabwe’s fight against malaria
A few years ago, it was uncommon for deaths from malaria to occur in this city. In 2016, Mutare city authorities said, the municipality recorded only one…
World’s first Covid-19 breathalyser approved in the US
The FDA said the device was 91.2 per cent accurate at identifying positive test samples and 99.3 per cent accurate at identifying negative test samples. “InspectIR expects…
Starting first Covid lockdown a week earlier ‘could have led to 34,000 fewer deaths’
Prof Neil Ferguson, one of the Government’s leading modellers during the pandemic, has previously said the UK death toll could have been halved if lockdown had been…
What happened to Johnny Depp?
“The op-ed’s clear implication that Mr Depp is a domestic abuser is categorically and demonstrably false,” his lawyers wrote in the legal complaint. “Her allegations […] are…
Cochrane’s Scotland: Douglas Ross has a strong manifesto, but trouble down south is his handicap
The mess Sturgeon is making of governing and her lack of progress in getting what’s called “indyref” next year might just be the dual reasons why many…
Nicola Sturgeon rejects claims of ‘festering’ transphobia within SNP
A row between Holyrood’s pro-independence parties over transgender rights deepened on Friday after Nicola Sturgeon rejected claims she had allowed prejudice to “fester” within her party. The…
‘Commonwealth Globe’ featuring stones from UK’s highest peaks to be Platinum Jubilee centrepiece
Rocks were collected from the top of the UK’s four highest peaks, Scafell Pike, Ben Nevis, Snowdon and Slieve Donard before two fragments were taken from each…
Queen’s pastry chefs share how to make hot cross buns fit for a Royal
The pastry chefs’ recipe, fit for a royal gathering, begins with dispersing yeast in tepid water. This is followed by sieving flour, salt, sugar and mixed spice…
Strokes can ‘reduce life expectancy by a third’, study finds
A stroke cuts remaining life expectancy by one third, and knocks an average of five and a half years off life, a major study has found. University…