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Margaret Thatcher expected 'a lot of hard work' from the London-based Australian dentist when she was elevated to the House of Lords in 1981 as Baroness Gardner of Parkes. As her fellow Peers mark her passing there can be no doubt about her energy and industry, albeit at the sometime cost of the Iron Lady's displeasure

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

The industry is not ‘the cherry on the cake’ but the cake itself, said the Labour peer.

Dropping the late Queens convention that those first in the line of succession travel separately, William, Kate and the children went together to Westminster Abbeys carol service.

Lord Bragg and Tina Brown were among wellwishers at St Martin-in-the-Fields at a memorial for the writer and playboy Anthony Holden, who died in October

Move to Manchester for English National Opera ‘cultural vandalism’

An array of popular gameshows air on ITV, from classic entertainment programmes to new show giving contestants the chance to compete against each other.

A blazing Ruth Wilson elevates a turbulent drama about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries; Hockney and Bragg make a classy double act; and a female revenge fantasy goes to the dark side

Several stars were pictured in the royal box on centre court at the All England Club.

Several stars were pictured in the royal box on centre court at the All England Club.