Monday June 8 The longer the coronavirus crisis has dragged on, the more I’ve craved some palm-tree time at my home in Los Angeles, which is my oasis from all life’s woes. But LA’s been resembling a grim war zone in recent weeks, with the George Floyd protests turning into …...Read More

A voice roared from across the train carriage: 'Will someone shut that kid up!' I was eight years old at the time. But 20 years later, those words – bellowed by an angry, business-suited man still make me wince. At the time, I was with my mum, Annette – we …...Read More

People battling debilitating arthritis in the shoulder are finding relief thanks to a revolutionary 'backward' ball and socket joint replacement. Traditional shoulder replacements use a ball-shaped implant at the top of the arm bone, nestling into a cup-shaped socket in the shoulder – just like the normal anatomy. Many arthritis …...Read More

When I tell people I grew up in Essex, only those who have never been there turn up their noses. This is a shame, for the Essex I love is a wonderful mix of pretty rural life and coastal escapes. The county’s image hasn’t been helped by reality TV show …...Read More

Miss Aluminium Susanna Moore W&N £9.99 Rating: It is so much to the credit of this memoir that its dissonant materials of family tragedy and Hollywood gossip make an apparently seamless whole. Susanna Moore, model-turned-writer, had an explosive hit in the 1990s with her erotic thriller In The Cut, later …...Read More

The Glastonbury Experience BBC iPlayer, available now Rating: This weekend, the world’s greatest festival should have turned into a giant 50th birthday party, with Paul McCartney and Diana Ross as guests of honour. It wasn’t to be, but then the 50th always was a bit of a fudge. Glastonbury missed …...Read More

Every week our Holiday Hero Neil Simpson takes an in-depth look at a brilliant holiday topic, doing all the legwork so you don’t have to. This week: How trains can beat planes if you’re heading to Europe this summer. Among holidaymakers with concerns about catching Covid-19, trains are a slower …...Read More

Lloyd Russell-Moyle (pictured), a Shadow Environment Minister, claimed JK Rowling was 'using her own sexual assault' to justify her views on transgender issues A senior Labour frontbencher was forced to make a grovelling apology today after accusing Harry Potter author JK Rowling of exploiting her sex attack ordeal amid a …...Read More

Riot police chased out of Brixton by teenage thugs. More than 20 officers injured, with two treated in hospital. The Home Secretary describing the criminal mayhem as ‘utterly vile’. Meanwhile, lockdown parties and illegal raves erupt into violence elsewhere across the country. No wonder former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Blair …...Read More

Advertisement Plunging her bare hands into bags full of compost, submerging her sparkling sapphire and diamond engagement ring, the Duchess of Cambridge shows that she’s not afraid of a bit of dirt in these remarkably candid photographs, taken as she helped create a new garden for a children’s hospice. Kneeling …...Read More