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The Lady, which has reportedly gone into liquidation after 140 years. Launched in 1885 as a “journal for gentlewomen”, featuring classified ads for housekeepers and butlers, it became one of Britain’s longest-lived magazines. But its circulation dwindled in recent years, and the April edition may be its last. Captain Yannick Trouillet, a parachutist who was left dangling from the roof of the Stadium de Toulouse for 25 minutes after he got his parachute caught in the awning. Trouillet was supposed to be delivering the match ball for the rugby team’s Champions Cup tie against Sale, by descending onto the pitch, but he was blown off course. Firefighters in a cherry picker eventually freed him.…

Reform would win the most seats in a election if it were held today, with 25% of the vote, while Labour and Tories would get 23% each. Electoral Calculus/Daily Mail 60% of British parents would support a Government ban on smartphones in schools. Only 5% said their children’s schools had a complete ban. Mumsnet/The Times 44% of Britons say they have a negative attitude towards American English; 11% have a positive attitude; and 42% are neutral. 96% of Britons would use the term “sweets” over the US “candy”, while 71% go for “arse” instead of the US “ass”; but 59% would use the Americanism “horny” while only 16% prefer the traditional British “randy”. YouGov…

My life in The Monkees In 1965, Micky Dolenz spotted a casting call for “singers for acting roles” in a new TV series – and found himself auditioning for The Monkees. The show, about a fictional band of the same name, was a hit, and within a year, Dolenz was a star, unable to visit a shopping mall without causing chaos. He recalls walking into one near his parents’ home, and seeing people suddenly running screaming towards him. “I thought it was a fire. I hold open the big door and I’m going, ‘Slow down! Don’t run! Don’t panic!’ And suddenly I realised they were running at me.” However, the type of fame he experienced was unusual, he told Alexis Petridis in The Guardian: he and his fellow actors were…

Donald Trump has three long-term economic obsessions: he loves tariffs; he hates trade deficits; and he thinks the dollar is too strong. The dollar is strong, spurred by high interest rates and the strength of the US economy, but also because it is the world’s reserve currency: it accounts for 59% of global foreign-exchange reserves, held by central banks and so on; US Treasury bonds – state debt – are the world’s piggy bank ($8.5trn worth are held by non-US savers). This allows the US to balance its books despite its deficits, and gives it great power to, say, impose sanctions. But it also raises the price of US exports. Trump and his vice-president, J.D. Vance, think that a strong dollar is a drag on US manufacturing, and makes America…

A showdown with Iran may not be far away Noah Rothman National Review President Trump isn’t “playing around” with Iran, says Noah Rothman. He’s given Tehran two months to agree to a deal that will end the Iranian nuclear weapons programme or, as he said last week, “there will be bombing”. A natural isolationist, Trump would clearly prefer a peaceful settlement. But “a methodical build-up of American forces in Iran’s neighbourhood” suggests he’s deadly serious about the military option. Last week, as the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier was sent to join the USS Harry S. Truman carrier in the Middle East, at least six B-2 stealth bombers were deployed to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, a base that has previously been used to stage strikes in the region.…

For older people who are starting to need care, but who are not ready to give up their homes in order to move into a home, AI may have the solution. Various systems are now available that use sensors around the home to monitor a person’s movements, and build up a picture of their daily life – when they get up, how often they visit the bathroom, and so on. Then, if this normal pattern alters – if the person does not move for a long period, or gets up frequently in the night, or stops opening the fridge – it raises an alert. Rhona D’Arcy and her 86-year-old mother Heather White, who has dementia, were among the first to test a system called Lilli, which is being used by…

Sadness, anger, confusion, infatuation, lack of interest in sex, elation – these have all been normal human emotions since the dawn of time, said Dr Alastair Santhouse in The Mail on Sunday. But I’ve noticed in my work as a psychiatrist that people are increasingly prone to interpret these and other extreme feelings as evidence of some underlying disorder or syndrome. In a survey by the National Union of Students a few years back, an astonishing 78% of students claimed to have had a mental health problem in the previous year. In the past five years, the number of Britons contacting mental health services has increased by more than a million; mental ill-health is now the leading cause of people under 44 being off work. One explanation for this could…

“Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.”Mark Twain, quoted in The New York Times “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”Grover Glenn Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, quoted in The Times “What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.”Henry Becque, quoted in The Knowledge “At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; at 45 they are caves in which we hide.”F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted in Forbes “Time is the river on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.”Doris Lessing, quoted the San Francisco Chronicle “There…

To The Daily Telegraph Chlorinated chicken is banned in Britain not because of risks to human health, but because this method of decontamination is required as a consequence of intensive rearing methods, poor animal welfare procedures, and overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in abattoirs and processing plants. Such low standards, intended to reduce costs, also constitute unfair competition for British farmers. The issue of hormone-treated beef and dairy cows is similarly misunderstood. American dairy farmers are permitted to use bovine somatotropin (BST), which increases the yield of dairy cows by up to 25%. Udders are 25% heavier, increasing teat damage and production stress, which raises susceptibility to mastitis. The resultant reduction in productive life, perhaps to as few as two lactations, is of scant concern to a Wisconsin farmer who can…

The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy, 2018 (Penguin £10.99). This is the second book of Levy’s “living autobiography” trilogy, and it’s so smart and thoughtful on writing, living, art… and electric bikes. Levy is a deep thinker and has such a way with sentences. Valentino by Natalia Ginzburg, 2023 (Daunt Books £8.99). This Italian writer, who died in 1991, wrote essays about family, life and craft, but her novellas are so compelling and deft. This short work is about the spoiled only son of an Italian family, and the impact his questionable choices have on everyone around him. The Visitor by Maeve Brennan, 2005 (Peninsula Press £10.99). Though long-forgotten in Irish literary history, there has been a resurgence of interest in Brennan’s work in recent years. This novella (unpublished…

Programmes America’s Biggest Dog Show It’s “best in show” time as Clare Balding travels to New York to attend the 149th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. Sat 12 Apr, C4 14:40 (120mins). Walter Presents: Cold Summer Italian crime thriller set in 1990s Bari. A quietly relentless cop investigates the murder of a local loan shark. Mon 14 Apr, C4 00:35 (60mins). Rebuilding Notre-Dame: The Last Chapter Lucy Worsley takes a look behind the scenes as restoration teams race to complete work on the roof and spire of the great cathedral. Mon 14 Apr, BBC2 21:00 (60mins). Dispatches – Undercover: The Great Tagging Scandal Dispatches goes undercover at the UK’s biggest tagging company, which monitors offenders in the community, and finds a system in disarray. Mon 14 Apr, C4 21:00…

Located on the Wales Coast Path above a golden beach and a glassy cove, Three Cliffs Bay, Gower, has pitches overlooking the sea with fire pits, plus dog-friendly yurts and bell tents with proper beds and barbecues (from £49; threecliffsbay.com). Beech Croft Farm, a family-owned caravan park and campsite in Taddington, Derbyshire, is an ideal base for exploring the Peak District. There’s a play area for young children, plus a zip wire for older kids (from £27; beechcroftfarm.co.uk). Only a mile from Land’s End, Trevedra Farm is a family-run caravan and camping site overlooking the Cornish coast. There’s a popular surfing beach, Sennen, close by, and a pop-up pizza van every Tuesday (from £24; trevedrafarm.co.uk). Wowo is very close to Sussex’s Bluebell steam railway in Uckfield, and has camping and…

The Manor House Inn Ditcheat, Somerset The Chickpea Group runs “some of the South West’s best country boozers”, and has recently revamped this 17th century inn near Bruton. The makeover is “stylish”, says Susan d’Arcy in The Times, but the place is as friendly and “convivial” as ever. Mellow stone floors, “moody” paints and flickering candles make for a “cosy ambience”, and though the nine guest rooms are “compact”, they have big, comfy beds and spacious showers. Food is “delicious”, and there’s much to see nearby, including racehorse trainer Paul Nicholls’s stables next door, and the “trendy” Hauser & Wirth gallery. Doubles from £130 b&b; manorhouseinn ditcheat.co.uk.…

UK carmakers: JLR halts US exports “One happy outcome from the tariffs,” said Alistair Osborne in The Times, is that they have pushed the PM into relaxing Britain’s “car-crash rules over electric vehicles”, which have driven “all sorts of perverse behaviour” in the motor industry over the past year. Although the 2030 ban on sales of new petrol and diesel motors remains in place, carmakers will have more flexibility about meeting tough current EV sales targets, and face lower fines if they miss them. “Happy days” – all they have to worry about now is Trump’s 25% tariffs. The stakes are high, said Jill Treanor in The Sunday Times. Britain’s £100bn car industry “claims to generate £1 in every £8 earned by the UK from exporting goods”. And almost 17%…

The FTSE 100 has plunged 8% in the past week, wiping out the year’s gains. But some companies “are considerably worse off than others”, said The Times: Most challenged Asia-focused banks “Banks are a bellwether for economic activity”, and Standard Chartered (down 19.9% by Tuesday evening) and HSBC (down 16.5%) are “particularly exposed” to China’s retaliatory import duties – and to the threat of a prolonged trade war. Energy and commodities giants Though most commodities are exempt from tariffs, shares in BP (-16.1%) and Shell (-12.3%) fell with Brent crude (down 15%). The 17% fall in copper – also “a bellwether for global economic growth” – prompted similar swoons in miners Glencore and Anglo American. Weathering the storm Utilities and the inward-looking Good performers in downturns sell products that are…

The week’s best shares AJ Bell The Times Cost-of-living pressures and Wall Street wobbles may have deterred prospective investors. But the investment platform is competitively priced, and benefits from a strong brand, sticky clients and “credible” record. Buy. 407.2p. Fevertree Drinks The Daily Telegraph Tough trading has weighed on the soft drinks group, but lower material costs and freight rates have boosted profits. Given “significant” brand loyalty, falling interest rates should prompt improved customer spending. Buy. 778p. Foresight Group Holdings The Mail on Sunday Foresight works with local authority pension funds, investing in profitable regional firms and infrastructure: from schools and roads to battery storage plants and forestry. Well run and profitable. Yields 7%. Buy. 315p. Informa The Times The prospect of a US economic downturn has hit the world’s…

THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1460 Two Connell Guides and three Week-branded items will be given to the sender of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 21 April. Send it to The Week Crossword 1460, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London W2 6JR, or email the completed grid/listed solutions to crossword@theweek.co.uk. By Paul McKenna This week’s winner will receive Week-branded items, as well as two Connell Guides (connellguides.com). ACROSS 9 Aeschylus, say, ain’t upset about wrath with god (9) 10 Live carefree without society girl (2,3) 11 Some special edition beer (3) 12 Mean Medusa’s fresh sobriquet (7,4) 13 Frolic with abandon and become fluffy? (3,4) 14 Bear witness though being in the grip of showing irritability (7) 16 Skill update here for rescuers needing…

The judiciary has been forced to draw up guidance for courts on how to deal with “emotional support animals”, because defendants are increasingly seeking to bring badly behaved and disruptive pets into court to help them cope with “stress”. At Grimsby Crown Court, for instance, one defendant brought a Staffordshire terrier puppy that urinated and defecated on the foyer floor after his owner was sent down for dangerous driving. Researchers who polled 1,000 white-van-driving tradesmen found that 80% think the “white-van man” stereotype is offensive and outdated. More than half said they enjoy “mindful activities” such as yoga, while one in five drinks herbal tea, and 22% have a nightly skincare regime.…

Two Labour MPs were denied entry to Israel this week and deported. Yuan Yang, the MP for Earley and Woodley in Berkshire, and Abtisam Mohamed, the MP for Sheffield Central, were part of a delegation aiming to visit aid projects in the West Bank with UK charities when they were detained at Ben Gurion Airport. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the episode was “unacceptable, counter-productive and deeply concerning”. Israeli officials said the pair had been turned away because they were suspected of planning to “document the activities of the security forces and spread anti-Israel hatred”.…

Brussels Royal benefits: Belgium’s Prince Laurent has lost a legal battle to claim social security benefits on top of his €338,000 royal allowance and rent-free housing. The 61-year-old prince – the younger brother of King Philippe – argued that he was acting out of “principle”. His lawyer said his allowance yielded only €5,000 per month after expenses (including wages for an assistant), that he was worried about the future financial well-being of his British wife and their three children after his death – and that he ought to be able to claim medical benefits, like most Belgians. This week, however, a court ruled that he did not fit into any employment category that would entitle him to social security under Belgian law. Sometimes referred to as the “cursed prince” in…

“I am going to come right out and admit that I don’t understand this US tariff thing. Not at all or even remotely. It won’t be the first time. For, brilliantly clever though I am, I have long had a policy of ignoring any major news story that I don’t understand after three tries, and never thinking about it again. What’s the deal with the Chagos Islands? Do you honestly know what habeas corpus is? The difference between Shia and Sunni? Seriously? I bet even they don’t know. OK, what about the rule against perpetuities? Entropy, then; tell me what entropy is for maybe the millionth time … And while you do, I’ll be reading the sports pages.” Giles Coren in The Times…

Le Pen: guilty – but also stitched up Daniel Hannan The Sunday Telegraph Was Marine Le Pen guilty of improperly diverting EU money into her party’s coffers? I expect so, says Daniel Hannan. Why, then, am I so appalled that she has been disqualified as a presidential candidate? It’s because the punishment is so selective. I know from my time as an MEP that such behaviour is rife in Brussels. MEPs receive “eye-popping sums of money” to employ staff (the allowance is €30,769 a month). Candidates were often expected – in some cases, by contract – secretly to kick back a portion to their national parties. The rules on how money was spent were flexible and vague, but everyone knew they were more strictly applied to eurosceptics than “goody-goody federalists”.…

Transplant breakthrough Doctors have for the first time successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human recipient – a breakthrough that could give hope to transplant patients, many of whom die while waiting for suitable donors. Pigs’ organs are a similar size to ours, and in recent years, surgeons have transplanted pig kidneys and hearts into humans, after modifying some key genes to reduce the chance of the organs being rejected. The liver, however, is more challenging. Whereas the heart and kidneys each have one main function, the liver carries out a range of tasks – including detoxifying harmful substances, regulating blood sugar, storing energy and breaking down fats. Ensuring that this multi-functionality was preserved was a “huge obstacle for us to overcome”, said Prof Lin Wang, of Xijing Hospital…

Emmanuel Macron has a signature power play, according to his biographer Olivier Beaumont: the French president wears “industrial amounts” of cologne – so much so that aides in the Élysée Palace can smell him approaching before he enters the room. Macron keeps a bottle of Dior Eau Sauvage in one of the drawers in his desk, and uses the “floral and musky” fragrance almost as a way “of marking his territory”, says one staffer – just as Louis XIV’s perfume symbolised his power as he paraded through Versailles. “It’s not subtle, but it’s fast,” says another former aide of Macron’s. “It means: ‘Watch out, here I come!’” Joe Biden was “out of it” during the 2024 campaign, and left preparations for his debate with Donald Trump to fall asleep by…

Cricket Harry Brook has been named England’s new T20 and one-day captain. F1 Max Verstappen won his first Grand Prix of the season in Japan. He is now a point behind leader Lando Norris. Rugby union Harlequins exited the last 16 of the Champions Cup with a 62-0 defeat by Leinster. Saracens lost to Toulon. Northampton, who beat Clermont, are the one English team still in the competition. Football Declan Rice scored two free kicks as Arsenal beat Real Madrid 3-0 in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.…

The Week reviews an exhibition in a private gallery Diarmuid Kelley at Offer Waterman Diarmuid Kelley (b.1972) is a meticulous painter, producing works that fall somewhere in between 17th century Dutch still life and 1970s photorealism, with a hefty dose of John Singer Sargent thrown in for good measure. He is an unparalleled observer of surfaces and texture: when he paints a basket of figs, say, your initial instinct is to reach down, grab one and squeeze it to test its ripeness. This show, Summer, Autumn, Winter & Spring, brings together 24 works created since 2018, mostly portraits and still lifes characterised by their forensic intensity and the artist’s signature trait of leaving swathes of canvas unpainted so as to draw attention to his masterful handling of paint. He never…

Val Kilmer 1959-2025 At the age of 17, Val Kilmer became the youngest student ever admitted to the drama school at the prestigious arts conservatory The Juilliard School, in New York, said The Times. There, he co-wrote and acted in a play that was staged at The Public Theatre. His plan was to become a classically trained Shakespearean actor; but although he did some stage work (he starred in productions of Hamlet and the Jacobean tragedy ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore) it was in Hollywood that he rose to prominence. With his chiselled jaw, pouty lips and undeniable charisma, he made millions by starring in blockbuster movies. Yet Kilmer, who has died aged 65, never stopped taking his craft, and himself, extremely seriously. In his debut movie, the 1984 spoof…

Musk vs. Navarro: why it matters Editorial The Wall Street Journal The growing feud between Elon Musk and White House tariff tsar Peter Navarro provided welcome light relief in a tough week. To recap, says The Wall Street Journal, Navarro told a TV show that Musk isn’t a “real” carmaker, but a mere “assembler” of foreign parts. The Tesla boss retaliated by calling “Peter Retardo” “dumber than a sack of bricks”. Ordinarily, we’d ignore the squabbling of “West Wing personalities”, yet this battle between competing factions advising President Trump matters. Whichever side prevails is “likely to determine” US economic policy. Musk can be “erratic”, but at least he believes in trade: he recently expressed the hope that the US and Europe can move “to a zero-tariff situation”. Navarro, by contrast,…

The US-China trade war is escalating, said The Economist – “and fast”. Chinese officials have vowed to “fight to the end” in the face of the latest threats from Trump. Last week, Beijing had already promised to match new American tariffs of 34% – a move that drew return fire from Washington, which announced total levies of 104% of goods from China, applicable from 9 April. No sooner had those come into force, than China upped the ante further, announcing retaliatory 84% tariffs on all US imports. Until this week, Chinese officials had trodden carefully in a bid to “limit self-harm”. But with Trump no longer seeming very interested in striking a trade deal with Beijing, China’s leaders appear ready to go all out, to try to “win the trade…

Backing yourself, after a recent survey found that one in 50 men believe they could beat a horse in a 100-metre sprint. (Horses can reach up to 40mph, while Usain Bolt, the fastest man on Earth, managed only 27mph.) Nearly three in ten adults confessed to having spotted an animal and thought, “I can outrun that.” Burying the hatchet, as Madonna and Elton John announced they had ended their 20-year feud. The singers fell out when John accused Madonna of lip-syncing in 2004, but reconciled this week after bumping into each other backstage at Saturday Night Live. John, 78, apologised for all the hurtful things he had said over the years, which included calling Madonna “a fairground stripper”. Theme park fans, after Universal confirmed its first European resort will be…

The Silvertown Tunnel, the first new Thames crossing in London in more than 50 years, opened this week. The £2.2bn tunnel, designed to take the pressure off the nearby Blackwall Tunnel, was also the first major UK infrastructure project in many years to be delivered on time and on budget. It was built under a private finance contract by Riverlinx consortium; funding will be repaid by tolls – currently up to £4 per car during peak hours – over 25 years. The tunnel is controversial locally since it will bring more traffic and pollution to the area.…

A mother from north Wales who raised £4,000 for Children In Need by changing her name to “Pudsey Bear” has begged the Home Office to accept her new moniker. Eileen De Bont, 53, legally became Mrs Bear in 2009: since then, the name has been used on Companies House for her tarot-reading business, and her kids now call her “Mama Bear”. But she says the Home Office is refusing her a new passport, calling her name “frivolous”. “They just won’t let me be who I am,” she lamented. A church in West Yorkshire has begun hosting monthly wrestling tournaments in a bid to attract worshippers. Evening events organised by Kingdom Wrestling, a local charity, draw almost 200 people to St Peter’s Anglican church in Shipley, where baptisms have been known…

SPAIN We’re all Doomsday preppers now El País (Madrid) Until recently, I was afraid people would think I was crazy if they knew I had a home survival kit, said Delia Rodríguez. Now I feel like the prescient one. The EU has urged its 450 million citizens to be equipped for anything, from a flood to a pandemic to an invasion: every household is instructed to stockpile enough food, medicine and supplies to get through the first 72 hours of a disaster. “Europe cannot afford to remain reactive,” the strategy states. Don’t we know it? In the past five years, we in Spain have lived through Covid, “floods that have left hundreds dead, a storm that nearly cut off the capital, overflowing rivers, massive wildfires, tragic droughts, snowfalls that have…

“Hair in a grey bob with a small gold cross around her neck, 64-year-old Livia Tossici-Bolt might seem an unlikely choice of a global cause célèbre,” said Nicholas Pyke in the Daily Mail. But the activist has become the face of a transatlantic row over free speech after being convicted for breaching an abortion clinic “buffer zone” in 2023. Tossici-Bolt, who stood outside the Bournemouth clinic with a sign saying, “Here to talk, if you want”, has been given a conditional discharge, and ordered to pay £20,000 in costs. The Trump administration called it disappointing. And they’re right, said Melanie McDonagh in The Spectator. Tossici-Bolt wasn’t aggressive; all she did was respectfully offer an “alternative” opinion on abortion, as anyone in a free country is allowed to do. Not here…

It is an “innate part of Britishness”, however that is defined, to avoid confrontation in social situations, said The Times. Whereas some cultures thrive on “seeking out a good argument”, Britons typically muffle potential conflict with “euphemism and understatement”. Last week, new research was released that underlined the extent to which this happens in everyday conversation. Half of the 2,000 adults surveyed by Trinity College London, an English-language awarding body, said they regularly use phrases to avoid disagreement or confrontation. The most used examples include, “Could I squeeze past you?” (translation: please get out of my way immediately), “Sounds fun, I’ll let you know” (I have absolutely no intention of coming to your social event), and, “Sorry, I’m a bit busy right now” (please go away). On average, researchers found,…

With their 3-1 defeat by Spurs last Saturday, Southampton set the most unwanted of records, said Thom Gibbs in The Daily Telegraph. They became the first club ever to be relegated from the Premier League with seven matches still to play. Not even the Derby County side of 2007/08 – commonly seen as the worst in league history – achieved the feat as quickly as the Saints, who after 31 matches still only have ten points (one short of Derby’s 2007/08 total). In December, Southampton tried to arrest their slide by sacking Russell Martin, the manager who guided them out of the Championship last season, said Ben Fisher in The Guardian. And in his place they appointed Ivan Juric, previously head coach at Roma. But the Croatian “failed to fashion…

Our goods are too cheap To The Times I am not an economist and cannot pretend to offer an informed view on President Trump’s tariffs, but the production of ever-cheaper products for mostly Western consumption has not been entirely positive. The real cost of a £10 pair of jeans is paid by the worker in the Far East, who is paid a pittance to work like a dog. It is paid by the environment as products are shipped worldwide, and as people dispose of belongings rather than repair or re-use them. The Western desire to consume comes at a cost, but not one paid directly by the consumer. One consequence of Trump’s policy may be the increase of home production for home consumption. I like the sound of that. Simon…

Mad Men’s Jon Hamm goes “from Don Draper to crime caper” in this “frothily fun” black comedy from Apple TV+, said Michael Hogan in The Guardian. The actor brings his “slippery good looks” to the role of Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a divorced hedge fund CEO who has recently lost his job for workplace impropriety. With alimony payments to meet, he’s desperate to maintain his “megabucks Ivy Leaguer lifestyle”, and to keep his “spoilt” family in the style to which they’ve become accustomed. So he resorts to robbing his rich neighbours in upstate New York, only to discover that “what happens behind those white picket fences is even murkier than he imagined”. The likeable Coop is essentially “Robin Hood in a Ralph Lauren cap”, who retains our sympathy even as he…

Courtesy of a new pilot project, doctors in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, can now prescribe visits to art museums as part of a treatment plan, said Elise Morton on Euronews. The initiative, which covers the cost of entry to any of the town’s four museums, “aims to boost mental health and provide some cultural respite for patients”. Since launching, the programme has distributed around 500 prescriptions to people, mostly with depression, chronic illness and mobility issues. The project was inspired by a programme in Montreal, Canada, said Ashifa Kassam in The Guardian. Doctors there were given thousands of free passes to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (above), to prescribe to patients in the hope of “alleviating everything from depression and anxiety to diabetes and high blood pressure”. Research suggests “spending time…

Susan’s in a flap when Joy doesn’t turn up for her shift at the shop; with no one to cover, Rochelle steps in. At the Maliks’ Eid party, Akram tells Lynda they want to stay in Ambridge. When Susan makes a serious error at the shop, Rochelle handles the situation. Freddie can’t get up the nerve to sack Jolene from the cricket team, and uses the excuse of a technicality. Emma suggests to Fallon that Clarrie apply to work at The Bull; she and Eddie help Clarrie write a CV. Rex and Rochelle are awkward on seeing each other again, but later clear the air. At nets, Jolene calls Freddie’s bluff and Rochelle impresses Vince; he invites her to join the team and gives her a job interview at Casey…

Margo 68 Miller Street, Glasgow (0141-739 0882, margo.restaurant) Jonathan MacDonald’s first Glasgow venture, Ox and Finch, changed my “whole way of thinking about a casual meal out with friends”, says Kirsty Wark in The Observer. It was all about “wonderful flavours” – confit pork belly, crab on sourdough – and “small plates that arrived whenever they were ready”. Now, MacDonald has opened a third restaurant (the celebrated Ka Pao came in between), and with it he has made the experience of dining out in Glasgow even more “relaxed” and “elegant”. Located on a “narrow Victorian street” in the city centre, Margo has a “welcoming and chic” interior. Our meal begins with “beautifully light and salty” focaccia, accompanied by moreish confit garlic butter. Various “morsels” follow – “croquettes of ham hough,…

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Trevor Lock 1939-2025 Trevor Lock, who has died aged 85, was the policeman who was hailed as the hero of the Iranian embassy siege. Regarded as a decent, dependable copper in “the mould of the fictional Dixon of Dock Green”, he had only recently joined the Diplomatic Protection Group, after 15 years on the beat in Dagenham, when he was sent to guard the embassy in Knightsbridge, said The Daily Telegraph. It was seen as a relatively low-level target, but on 30 April 1980 six armed men stormed the building. Lock, 41, had just stepped inside to get a cup of coffee, and was immediately overpowered. He would regret that he had not been at his post – though if he had been outside and had drawn his weapon, he…

● “We are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down.” Bill Ackman, of hedge fund Pershing Square and billionaire Trump backer. ● “Don’t panic, investors! Despite recent market losses due to tariff fears… history shows that Trumponomics drives growth.” Stephen Moore, former Trump adviser and fellow at the Heritage Foundation. ● “I don’t understand the goddamn formula.” Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone – a veteran GOP megadonor – rails against tariff rates, calling Vietnam’s 46%, in particular, “bullshit”. The president, he said, was “poorly advised”. ● “Monstrously destructive… based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.” Justin Wolfers, economics professor at the University of…