TV review: Imagine and To Kill A Mockingbird at 50

Tongue-in-cheek Sex Bomb … Tom Jones with Alan Yentob in Imagine. Photograph: BBC Oh, BBC1 documentary series Imagine, with last week’s glorious Diana Athill-fest you were really spoiling us. Last night, however, Yentob and his product returned to form – that is to say somewhere... 

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Interest rates held again

Interest rates have been on hold at 0.5% since March last year. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters The Bank of England left interest rates unchanged today for the 16th consecutive month, as Britain’s recovery from recession remains fragile amid the biggest public spending squeeze since... 

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Mel Gibson Admits He ‘Wasn’t Safe’ for Oksana in Text Message: Report

Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva have been leading separate lives in Los Angeles since their ugly split. (X17Online.com) A text message sent by Mel Gibson to his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva in which he allegedly admitted he “wasn’t safe for you” has become key evidence in the domestic... 

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Video: Jon Bon Jovi Struggled to Finish Concert With Injured Leg

© Manuil Yamalyan/WENN Jon Bon Jovi recently suffered a torn calf muscle on stage. The Bon Jovi frontman limped during a final set of the band’s concert at New Jersey’s New Meadowlands Stadium. The rocker, who often jumps up and down during his concerts,... 

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Bayreuth festival 2010

German soprano Annette Dasch in Hans Neuenfels’s controversial new production of Lohengrin in Bayreuth. Photograph: Michaela Rehle/Reuters Lab rats, a dead horse and bridesmaids with long, pert rodent tails and hybrid dahlias on their heads hardly feature in the original of Wagner’s... 

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