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Fast fashion retailer Shein has once again left shoppers aghast after unveiling a pair of titchy-tiny leather thong shorts, which some say remind them of a 'loin cloth'

AS so often, Roald Dahl (unexpurgated) put it best. In The Twits, prior to its bowdlerisation by Puffin Books, he observed of Mrs Twit: “Have you ever seen a woman with an uglier face than that? I doubt it. But the funny thing is that Mrs Twit wasn’t born ugly.…

"They always used to compare me to Dawn French and anyone big, like Miss Trunchbull or Bruce Bogtrotter."

Actor says it was ‘a really massive challenge’ to change her look and become the brutish, formidable headmistress Trunchbull.

The final four minutes of "Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical" are, in a way, both a new ending and a new beginning. The villainous Miss Trunchbull is no longer the school headmistress; the dim-witted Wormwoods are no longer Matilda's parents.

It isn't Matilda's absurdly lousy parents.

Samuel Kasumu mysteriously resigned last year

The movie knocked Black Panther Wakanda off the top of the box office on opening weekend. The musical movie stars Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull and Stephen Graham as Mr Wormwood.

“Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical” — an unwieldy title but a better one, surely, than “Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical: The Movie” — is an enjoyably bright and chipper adaptation of a moving, melancholy story I’ve loved since childhood. I wasn’t alone; I imagine “Matilda” was catnip for a lot…