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SIX men drove their hired van into the bleak vastness of Fenwick Moor in Ayrshire having travelled 20 miles from Glasgow. A short time later the van made the same journey back to the city minus one of its occupants, Bristol drugs courier Paul Thorne. Thorne had arrived in the city earlier that day with a £30,000 consignment of the drug amphetamine sulphate – worth £82,000 in today’s money. Once the drugs were sold in Glasgow to local dealers, his job was to take the cash payment back to his masters in Bristol. His companions that Saturday afternoon in early October 1988 includ...

Andre and Frances Guichard are owners of the 16-year-old Gallery Guichard in Bronzeville, which has seen corporate efforts toward diversity, equity and inclusion expand to art in the post-George Floyd era. The couple, which also owns the seven-year-old Bronzeville Artist Lofts, has been on a mission to expose patrons to multicultural artists and art in the African Diaspora, along with four other galleries in the Bronzeville Art District. Provided A nation reckoning with race has led to a renaissance for artists of the African Diaspora. That’s because diversity, equity and inclusion efforts ...

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May 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Brie Larson was not at last week’s Oscars, though she won one for her acting in “Room,” about a mother in captivity, five years ago. Quarantine, a different sort of captivity, had brought forth some other talents. Ms. Larson can scuba-dive, find edible mushrooms in the forest, create songs out of Instagram comments and bake cookies without a recipe. She signed up to climb the Grand Tetons without Googling a picture first. She is learning French. And she is now also famous for her online doings. Image Credit...Monica Almeida/The New York Times Last July, after a...

On my radar: Nick Laird's cultural highlights Nick Laird © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian Born in 1975 in Cookstown, Northern Ireland, poet and novelist Nick Laird attended the University of Cambridge before working in law for six years. In 2005, he published his first collection of poems, Utterly Monkey. Since then, he has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Somerset Maugham award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize and the Eric Gregory award. He lives in London with his wife, Zadie Smith, and their two children. Laird and Sm...