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The quirky early 90s drama ran for 110 episodes, had fans in Joni Mitchell and Bon Iver, and showed one of TV’s first gay weddings. Now, having been forgotten for years, its warm-hearted charms are being discovered by a new generationA blond waitress called Shelly is giving a long, strange monologue...
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An enraged behemoth breaks free from a government black site bent on revenge, but there is not much here aside from some monster action‘We’re going to need more wallpaper” turns out to be the Nordic answer to “We’re going to need a bigger boat”, after a 50-metre troll has just swept a leg through so...
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Anastasia Samoylova took a photographic journey up the US east coast – and found herself in America’s unreconciled past just as much as its fragmented present Continue reading...
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The reader grapples with fascism and complicity through the eyes of a mute autistic girl being treated during the second world warAs I started reading Alice Jolly’s new novel, whose narrator is a mute autistic girl in wartime Vienna, I realised that I was resisting its very premise. I am generally s...
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Journalist Hazel Martin talks to Eddy and Moira Ross, whose son was the chief suspect when he was just 15. Plus: secrets are revealed in The Ridge. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC TwoIn 1994, 26-year-old Shamsuddin Mahmood was shot dead as he served food in an Indian restaurant in Orkney....
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'She was taken completely by surprise and was left shocked and shaken' by Jacob Harper's attack
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Motorists travelling into the city centre on Thursday afternoon and evening can expect heavier traffic than usual
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The kids growing up might have changed this show’s appeal, but they manage to go out in a flame-throwing, bullet-dodging blaze of glory – while still being more moving than ever before Time’s up for Stranger Things. The fifth and last season arrives almost three-and-a-half years after a fourth run t...
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The Footnote x Counterpoints prize is intended to uncover new literary voices whose work reflects the experiences of migrationFootnote Press and Counterpoints Arts have announced a new fiction award celebrating writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds, offering a £15,000 prize and a publishing d...
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The debut novel took the top prize while The Café at the Edge of the Woods by Mikey Please was named children’s book of the yearThe Artist by Lucy Steeds has been named this year’s Waterstones book of the year.The novel, which is set in 1920s Provence and blends mystery with a love story, also took...