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OPINION - Celebrity older mothers like Tana Ramsay and Victoria Coren Mitchell are giving women false hope

I no longer do a second take when I read news that a woman in her fifties has given birth. This month alone, Victoria Coren Mitchell, 51, announced the arrival of her second child with her partner, the comedian David Mitchell, who is 49. Tana Ramsay, who turns 50 next…

Evening Standard

TV tonight: Lorraine Kelly’s highly emotional return to Lockerbie

The presenter revisits the residents she spoke to in 1988 after Pan Am flight 103 was bombed. Plus: Alan Davies launches David Mitchell through the air. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library

The Booker-nominated Mexican author will be the next writer to donate a work to the 100-year art project

The Guardian - UK

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Unruly by David Mitchell review – monarchs behaving badly

Sweary realism gives colour to these accounts of England’s most appalling kings and queens

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: ‘We’re celebrities, get us out here to work!’

David Mitchell’s survivalist comedy challenge show Outsiders returns with a smuggling challenge for six campers. Plus, Peter Mullan strikes terror into the heart of Edinburgh. Here’s what to watch tonight

The Guardian - UK

Five Great Reads: Joan Collins, William the Conqueror and one of the world’s most fascinating cities

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU

‘From divinely inspired warrior to compulsively snacking gammon’: David Mitchell on England’s unruly royals – exclusive extract

In this excerpt from his new book on England’s kings and queens, David Mitchell finds unlikely parallels between William the Conqueror and James Bond

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Let’s hear it for England’s royals – and centuries of incompetence, criminality and failure

We’re often told the current crop lack the dignity that monarchy deserves. But what about the losers, adulterers and delusional brutes who came before?

The Guardian - UK

Five Great Reads: a dolphin sex scandal, a critic’s top film picks and looking back on Peep Show

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU

Finishing every Booker Prize novel is ‘impossible’ says judge Robert Webb

‘You finish as many as you can and the other ones you put to one side after a respectable but undisclosed fraction has been read’

Evening Standard

‘Peep Show is about consistently stubbing your toe against life’: The sitcom at 20 by its creators and stars

David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Sam Bain and more talk to Ellie Harrison about the cult hit’s ‘circus of anxiety’ and ‘massive rudeness’, plus all of those ‘Succession’ comparisons, and the most excruciating filming moments

The Independent UK

‘The scripts were the funniest things I’d ever read’: the stars of Peep Show look back, 20 years later

It launched the careers of Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, Mitchell and Webb, plus Olivia Colman – but it nearly got cancelled. Two decades since its first episode, its stars reflect on the show that made them

The Guardian - UK

Hearts 4 Partick Thistle 0: Jambos breeze past Jags to reach quarter-finals

The Edinburgh club took charge of the cup tie early on at Tynecastle and kept their Championship opponents at an arm's length throughout.

The National (Scotland)

Should you cut wet grass? Experts weigh in on the perfect conditions to mow your lawn

The rain doesn’t show any signs of letting up, but is now the right time to be cutting the grass?

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WhatToWatch

Ludwig: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview and everything we know

Ludwig features David Mitchell as a puzzle genius and loner who is forced to impersonate his twin brother.

Daily Record

Council hits back after claim it has taken in zero asylum seekers

Minister for Immigration Robert Jenrick MP made claim about both East and North Ayrshire Councils in response to SNP MP's question on Illegal Immigration Bill in the House of Commons.

Evening Standard

Evacuation on Channel 4 review: a heartbreaking catalogue of failures

What is striking is the youth and inexperience of many of the services personnel deployed in Kabul, and their bravery in the face of trauma

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How to grow lavender from seed - yes, dried seed heads count!

Grow this fragrant shrub right from seed without breaking a sweat (or the bank)

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The Independent UK

UK forces evacuating people from Afghanistan feared they ‘may not return home’

Military personnel interviewed for Channel 4’s documentary series Evacuation have shed light on what it was like to be involved in Operation Pitting.

The Guardian - UK

‘I feel such indignation’: Windrush victims on the compensation process

People affected by the scandal talk about their struggles to get a payout from the Home Office

The Independent UK

Ross County stage incredible comeback to win Scottish Premiership play-off final

Ross County 3-1 Partick Thistle (agg 3-3 - Ross County win 5-4 on pens): County overturned a three-goal deficit in final 20 minutes before a dramatic shootout win saved their Premiership status

Evening Standard

Literary escapes! 10 top London authors on their summer must-reads

Classic romance novels, epic sci-fi, poetic prose — Alex Peake-Tomkinson quizzes writers from Jessie Burton to Diana Evans on their all-time favourite literary escapes

The National (Scotland)

Doolan insists Thistle have adopted 'tournament football' mentality

The Jags hold a 3-0 lead going into the Premiership play-off second leg but that won't stop them from going on the offensive.

Wales Online

Bad Education among five BBC comedies returning for new series

There are also five brand-new series to look out for, including a David Mitchell genre-bending detective series

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David Mitchell to star as an identical twin in new BBC comedy

David Mitchell's latest comedy series sees him playing twin brothers at the centre of a missing person's case.

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