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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/149b/live/cca20820-c271-11f1-b278-615cdfb74f16.jpg”] Pamela Raith Gaten Matarazzo is no stranger to musical theatre Keeping your balance on a revolving stage probably sounds easy when you compare it with battling demogorgons, but Gaten Matarazzo points out one big difference. You don’t get the luxury of “thirty takes” to get it right in front of a live…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1051/live/460511f0-c30b-11f1-babe-4199b0e7ccea.jpg”] Alamy Canadian poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross the boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship. The Nobel Prize committee said they had selected her “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6578/live/3a1ff8f0-c306-11f1-babe-4199b0e7ccea.jpg”] Wycombe Wanderers Eddie Keogh was presented with a Wycombe shirt on Tuesday It’s a tale as old as time. Take one 16-year-old video game, a rising indie-folk band and a League One football team and what do you get? A new football anthem for Wycombe Wanderers, courtesy of the unlikely figures of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/29e3/live/0ad07210-c332-11f1-9981-cf94ea240e40.jpg”] Getty Images A police presence at the scene after the attack on Thursday A 37-year-old caretaker has died after being stabbed by a former pupil at a school in Poland, police have said. The 15-year-old entered the primary school in Leszczydół-Nowiny, north of Warsaw, at around 09:00 (07:00 GMT) and attacked the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/5325/live/082a16c0-c31d-11f1-babe-4199b0e7ccea.jpg”] BBC Shaun of the Dead and Mission: Impossible films star Simon Pegg has revealed he has been diagnosed with ADHD, which he said “confirmed a lot of stuff that I’d been wrestling with”. Pegg, 56, who also co-created and starred in films Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, and TV series Spaced, said…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2637/live/3d9d95d0-ab7f-11f1-b109-879e35c24276.jpg”] Musée Renoir Jeune fille au puits and Portrait of Madame Colonna Romanoare still missing At least five people have been arrested in France in connection with the theft of two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir last month, local media report. The two suspected burglars are said to be among them. Two of the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ef63/live/b1b98540-c30e-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] Alamy Asos has told its customers that hackers are in possession of detailed profiles of potentially millions of the online store’s users. It issued the update after BBC News told the retailer it had been contacted by cyber criminals who said this week’s breach went beyond the “basic contact details” Asos previously…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/462e/live/1b241520-c2fd-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] BBC Winifred Robinson has presented You and Yours since 2000 The BBC has announced it will be cutting a raft of Radio 4 programmes including the long-running consumer and social affairs show You and Yours. The social sciences show Thinking Allowed will also be cut along with arts and ideas programme Free…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/55de/live/e262ec80-c242-11f1-b2a8-994b2a5598cb.jpg”] BBC Guernsey’s summer season was its hottest on record, according to Jersey Met Guernsey recently had its hottest summer on record, with temperatures peaking at 36.4°C (97.52F) on 25 June. In August, the Jersey Met Office said this was in line with evidence that climate change was driving hotter summers and increasing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/dcdd/live/90d75780-c250-11f1-ab30-1f92d324dff9.jpg”] Thackray Museum of Medicine Leeds’ Thackray Museum of Medicine opened in 1997 and is housed in a former workhouse A medical museum in Leeds has secured £420,000 in funding ahead of its 30th anniversary next year. Thackray Museum of Medicine has been awarded the money from grant organisations led by the National…