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“We all know a Beverley,” said Nancy Durrant in The Times. The “magnificent monster” at the heart of Mike Leigh’s “savage 1970s satire of the aspirational middle classes” has “never gone away”. More than four decades since Abigail’s Party premiered […]

This year’s Booker Prize shortlist features more women than ever before, and “it’s the strongest in years”, said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Times. Five of the six books to make “the cut” are written by female authors – a stark

“Nowhere does autumn come in such a burst of sensory glory as in Finland,” said Paula Hardy for Lonely Planet. From mid-September, the Nordic country’s forests are transformed into a “multi-layered tapestry” of gold, copper and auburn. With nearly three-quarters

“This is hip-hop dance, and opera house rules do not apply.” That’s the message that comes through loud and clear at the start of “The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party”. The 10th-anniversary run of ZooNation’s staging of “Alice in Wonderland” has

St Andrews lures thousands of tourists each year, many hoping to tee off in the “home of golf”, or visit the ancient university where Prince William and Kate Middleton famously first crossed paths. But this small town on Scotland‘s east

Forget giant marketing budgets, sometimes all you need to create the “buzziest” show on TV is a “small border terrier called Colin who has wheels for back legs”, said James Jackson in The Times. That’s the premise behind “Colin from

Beer drinkers are “turning to the dark side”, as sales of stout continue to soar, said Adrian Tierney-Jones in The Telegraph. No longer seen as the preserve of old men in pubs, the dark, velvety ale is appealing to a

Britain’s beavers were hunted to extinction 400 years ago for their lustrous fur and castoreum – a musky secretion used in perfumery until the 20th century. But in the last decade, growing numbers of the giant rodents have been spotted