The Edinburgh festival receives £2.3m in foundation funding a year. Photograph: Murdo Macleod More than 50 of Scotland’s best-known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh festival and the Traverse theatre, face deep cuts in their grants from the new government arts agency, Creative... 

‘Unforgettable’: Marina Poplavskaya, Plácido Domingo and Joseph Calleja in Simon Boccanegra at the Proms. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou The last note of Simon Boccanegra rang out. Verdi’s tragic Doge lay dead on the floor, inches from the lucky front-row Prommers in a packed Royal... 

Elliot Levey (Robespierre) and Toby Stephens (Georges Danton) in Danton’s Death. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian This is the third production in the National’s history of Büchner’s 1835 masterpiece written when he was only 21. But although Michael Grandage,... 

The number of part-time workers has hit record levels with people struggling to find full-time employment. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA The number of part-time workers in Britain has hit a record high as more people are forced to take shorter hours or not work at all. Official data released this... 

Cheryl Cole at the 63rd Cannes international film festival. Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP Cheryl Cole is in hospital after being infected with malaria during a holiday in Tanzania three weeks ago, her spokesman confirmed today. The singer was initially diagnosed with exhaustion after collapsing...