Category: 5. Entertainment

Booker-longlisted author Benjamin Wood has won this year’s Nero book award for fiction for his novel Seascraper.

Meanwhile, Claire Lynch won the debut fiction category for A Family Matter, and Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man took the…

A service which helps women who have been victims of domestic and sexual abuse has been awarded £240,000 of lottery funding.

Torquay-based Phoenix Rising, a community interest company set up in 2020, said the cash injection from the National…

Wicked co-stars Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey appear to have confirmed they will reunite for a revival of the award-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George.

A photo shared to both of their Instagram profiles shows the pair sat in front…

A motorcyclist who died in a crash following a police pursuit is the son of musician and producer Paul Hardcastle, the BBC understands.

Essex Police said officers followed a motorbike on Monday after it failed to stop for them in Ongar High…

A band will give an unsigned group or artist a supporting slot at a legendary London venue when they play a sold-out gig where all tickets cost £1.

Only the Poets, from Reading, Berkshire, and Banbury, Oxfordshire, charged £1 for their first gig…

Podcaster and founder of the Suffolk Theatre website, Georgy Jamieson, who met Carrick when they were both teenagers, described her death as a “complete shock”.

She said: “We know her for her directing and her writing with Red Rose but she was…

“I’ve always been interested in words,” she explained. “I think I’ve been playing in tournaments for getting on for 50 years now.”

Beasley co-founded the Exeter Scrabble Club in 1977 and still plays weekly.

She explained her secret to keeping her…