Claire Lams as Ana in While You Lie. Photograph: Laurence Winram While You Lie, Edinburgh The Traverse has a habit of throwing up startling new talent during its annual festival season. Not that Sam Holcroft is an unknown. Nurtured through the Traverse’s young writer’s group, her... 

Defenders of the faith … My Night With Maud My Night With Maud Production year: 1969 Country: France Cert (UK): PG Runtime: 113 mins Directors: Eric Rohmer Cast: Antoine Vitez, Francoise Fabian, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-Christine Barrault More on this film Chance and fate, and... 

AP Keith Richards and Patti Hansen The wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is a cancer survivor. Patti Hansen reveals in the August issue of Vogue magazine that she was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2007. She says she first underwent chemotherapy, which shrunk the tumor but didn’t get... 

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...