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To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked!

Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays

The Guardian - UK

‘Melancholy magic’: how Judi Dench and a host of stars came under the spell of the greatest comedy in history

The Twelfth Night Reunion gathers some of the grandest names in British theatre, including Simon Callow and Stephen Fry, to explain why Shakespeare’s play continues to bewitch audiences

The Guardian - UK

Ice cream can owner threatened with legal action over ‘excessive use’ of chimes

‘It is alleged the Blue Peter style chimes are sounded too often/frequently and potentially for too long’, the complaint reads

The Independent UK

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Alabama Woman Arrested for Refusing To Give a Cop Her I.D.

Alabama law doesn't let police demand individuals' government identification. But they keep arresting people anyway.

Reason

Scottish oat milk to be distributed UK-wide for first time after funding boost

OAT milk produced in Scotland is to be distributed UK-wide for the first time.

The National (Scotland)

Dad ‘can’t understand’ why he can’t leave hospital after pub trip

John Barton sustained brain injuries when he was assaulted as he was going home

Manchester Evening News

'Amazing' dad 'can't understand' why he's in hospital after trip to pub

John Barton went to the pub by himself before being put in an induced coma just hours later

Liverpool Echo

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Lucky dog rescued from frozen river after owner jumped in three times to save him

Al Diamond was walking his pooch, Bucky, on the Wallkill River, a tributary of the Hudson River, north of New York, US, when the dog got stuck in icy water 30ft from the edge

Daily Mirror

Encrochat drug dealing suspect named after extradition from Holland

He was detained at Manchester Airport after being extradited from Holland

Liverpool Echo

UK's most wanted fugitives named including three from Liverpool

They are being sought in connection with a range of serious offences

Liverpool Echo

Timothy O’Brien obituary

Stage designer who worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the National Theatre in London and opera houses in the UK and abroad

The Guardian - UK

Brian Jackson obituary

Versatile actor who played the Man from Del Monte in a continuing series of television commercials during the 1980s and 90s

The Guardian - UK

David Warner obituary

Stage and screen actor hailed for his 1965 Hamlet at the RSC who went on to have a distinguished film and TV career

The Guardian - UK

Looking for Alibrandi review – a moving stage show of a beloved novel

Malthouse Theatre, MelbourneChanella Macri is bolshy and brash as Josie Alibrandi – one of several excellent performances in this adaptation of Melina Marchetta’s young adult novel

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Ex Emmerdale heartthrob's family life with very famous wife

James Thornton played Moira's husband, John Barton, in Emmerdale for a number of years

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