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Actress Rachael Stirling talks about forging her career, parenting dilemmas and becoming a carer for her late mother

BARGAIN OF THE WEEK: Shadwell cast-off on the winning trail 2022-03-25

“For sheer colour and finesse in every facet of organ playing, Driskill-Smith will be hard to beat, his mastery of the mechanics of the instrument the best of all of the competitors [in the Calgary International Organ Competition]. Elegant and suave in everything he played . . . ” (Calgary Herald)

Guangzhou is considering implementing a new green card system that will make it easier for high-level talent to relocate and conduct business in the city.

Lord Millett, Law Lord who over a long career tackled blatant tax avoidance, the Spycatcher affair, the fall of Maxwell, and child welfare – obituary In a Lords judgment on a ‘wrongful birth’ he said ‘the law must take the birth of a normal, healthy baby to be a blessing, not a detriment’ Peter Millett (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary) in 1998 Credit: Universal Pictorial Press Photo Lord Millett, the former Law Lord, who has died aged 88, was earlier a brilliant Chancery barrister, regarde...

MEMORABLE QUOTES I have spent many nights combing through the memories, like a student in a library, wiping the dust from old volumes and examining each shelf, searching for the moment when I should have known: ah- there- it was time to act. This book eludes me. It was checked out many years ago and, and never returned.  I remembered us at the table in our flat, laptops up, sharing Lonely Planet. He planned a precise route for our days. Williamsburg; Harlem; Beacon, on the Hudson. Places we ha...

RIGHTS SOLD IN 27 TERRITORIES SOON TO BE A TV SHOW DIRECTED BY JOHAN RENCK (Chernobyl) ‘An astonishing achievement.’ JESSIE BURTON ‘Gripping, beautifully written perfection.’ SOPHIE HANNAH ‘A masterpiece.’ LOUISE O’NEILL ‘Fantastic.’ PAULA HAWKINS ‘Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.’ Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of...

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