Ivan Cutting, theatre director at Eastern Angles theatre company. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Anyone out and about in Ipswich in June may have come across a bright yellow camper van parked in one of a number of prominent spots. On closer inspection, they would have found it full... 

New member of the Twitterati … Kanye West recently set up a Twitter account. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters “Who is @ste_101?” asked one Twitter user earlier today, “and why does @kanyewest follow him?” It’s the question journalists have been equally keen... 

Sophie Ellis-Bextor at the Jacques Townhouse pop-up hotel. Photographed for the Observer by Katherine Rose If any fantasy realm ever needed an ice queen, it’s Jacques Townhouse, a pop-up hotel-cum-beauty parlour “soirée” venue in central London that looks like Alice’s... 

AP Filipino singer Charice had botox done on her face despite being only 18 years old for her debut on the hit show “Glee.” MANILA, Philippines Filipino teenage singer Charice Pempengco says she prepared for her debut on the hit TV show “Glee” by getting Botox and an anti-aging procedure... 

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...