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I write in this auspicious week when the great injustice meted out to 7,000 innocent postmasters/mistresses is finally acknowledged.

A combination of Storm Henk and prolonged heavy rainfall shut a pub in Witney and sparked calls for action on flooding from farmers.

SIR – I can think of nothing in my 67 years that makes me more ashamed to be British than the scandalous behaviour of the Post Office in the Horizon fiasco (Letters, January 8). What makes me most ashamed is that it has taken a television dramatisation, ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office, to spur our self-satisfied and self-protecting establishment into taking action. Nigel Cowan Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

London: Industrial historian Norma Jacqueline Gregory was last month recognised by the University of Nottingham with an honorary doctorate of letters for her significant contributions to knowledge collating and preserving the heritage of former...

Kate Taylor (Globe and Mail) reviews “Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now,” which is on view (on loan from the Tate Britain-London) until April 1, 2024, at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto, Canada. [Also see previous posts Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art.AGO and Life Between Islands. Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing…

Pioneering vandalism-reporting scheme will launch in January involving police, youth workers and housing officials

Ruth Pitter and Valda Jackson, whose parents moved to Bristol in the 1960s, have been honoured.

Fiona Mckenzie Johnston and photographer Joshua Monaghan visit the Turner Prize-nominated artist in a converted factory in Birmingham.

Take a trip back in time with these 2024 shows.

Students from Springfield Junior School in Ipswich visited Hardball Caribbean Smokehouse to learn about the Windrush era and about Caribbean culture.