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Books on a bookshelf at Hay Castle at Hay Festival in Powys, Wales (Ryan Phillips/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Reading for pleasure is the most popular lockdown pastime, research suggests. Three in 10 adults in Britain polled for The Open University said they had picked up a book for fun during the lockdowns in 2020. Overall, 61% of the 2,011 people surveyed in December said they had taken up or rekindled a cr...

Top Ten Virtual Shows Across the UK and Ireland From a critical reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’ to a research project on the role of photography in the Irish civil rights movement, these are the best shows to stream As we near the anniversary of lockdown 1.0, there are lots of reasons to feel flat and unmotivated. Nobody knows when public spaces will open up again, nor the long-term effects of this trauma writ large on society. But art can assuage some of the frustrations we’re facing. A host of platforms across the UK and Ireland have devised virtua...

Get A Different Kind of Different For Free Staff Reporter (07 January, 2021) ‘They see no boobs, they think “it’s a guy”.’ ‘Who cares about symmetry? Asymmetry is more natural anyway’ A Different Kind of Different, an animated short film by Jordan Baseman, charts the psychological impact of breast cancer. Reflecting on the initial ordeal of loss, the film reveals a journey to acceptance via the liberation of mastectomy tattoos. The 13-minute film launches in early 2021 with three free online events, each lasting 90 minutes, at 7pm on 14, 21 and...