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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ed Sheeran has risen above Adele in this year’s Rich List that sees Stormzy make his debut Ed Sheeran has doubled his wealth in the last year to rise above Adele with a total worth of £160m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. He is now the 17th […]

Image caption Michael (Peter Mullen) and Cathy (Lesley Manville) are still keeping us guessing as to how their relationship will turn out You might not expect a sitcom about a grieving widow’s love life to be the brainchild of a man under 40 but BBC Two’s Mum isn’t your usual comedy drama. As the third

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was appointed musical director of the CBSO when she was just 29 In the booklet for Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s new CD, she is credited not just as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s conductor (which she is) but as a soprano. It’s not a huge surprise – in

Image caption One of Rita Ora’s companies was a client of Blue Cube Business An accountant who defrauded celebrity clients including Rita Ora, Matt Dawson and Martin Bayfield has been jailed. Andrew Munday, 38, used money from the fraud, totalling at least £3.35m, to buy houses, Star Wars memorabilia, and an executive lounge membership at

Image caption Rex Garrod built the remote-control car Brum for children’s TV The children’s television car Brum and Robot Wars creation Cassius attended the funeral of their inventor, who died aged 75. More than 300 people attended the send-off of Suffolk “bodgineer” Rex Garrod at St Mary and St Lambert church in Stonham Aspal, near

Quirky metal sculptures have been appearing around the town of Stonehaven for years, but the identity of their creator has always remained a secret. Only those closest to the sculptor knew who he was, and would leave scrap metal at his door for his creations. Now Jim Malcolm, 68, has spoken to BBC Scotland’s arts

Image caption Nina Stibbe won this year’s Wodehouse Prize for her comic novel Reasons To Be Cheerful The third and final entry in a semi-autobiographical trilogy has netted an author an annual award for the funniest book. Nina Stibbe’s ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful’ clinched the 2019 Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. The Leicester-born writer had

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Jason Manford said in a video on Facebook that he suffers from anxiety and depression Comedian Jason Manford has opened up about his struggles with mental health. In a video on Facebook, he said he wanted to let people know why he had been less active on social media.

Image copyright Getty Images Viggo Mortensen has denounced far right Spanish political party Vox after it tweeted a meme featuring the actor playing Aragorn in Lord of the Rings. The meme, shared by the nationalist party’s official Twitter account in April, showed Aragorn lining up to face off against the assembled hordes of Vox’s apparent

After the bruising Battle of Winterfell, the celebratory banquet scene in this weekend’s Game of Thrones episode made perfect sense. Choosing to toast the demise of the Night King with an apparent Starbucks coffee, however, certainly did not. Eagle-eyed viewers spotted a coffee cup on the table in the great hall, as Mother of Dragons