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Yeats’ teenage letters sold at Sotheby’s for more than €53,000
- Books
- December 10, 2020, 12:17
A series of seven unpublished letters by the teenage WB Yeats have been sold for nearly £48,000, more than double the pre-sale price estimate. The le(...)

Rare letters from teenage WB Yeats to be auctioned in London
- Books
- December 4, 2020, 14:52
A series of seven unpublished letters by the teenage WB Yeats will go on sale at Sotheby’s in London next week. The letters contain the first referen(...)

Comedian Bobby Ball (76), of Cannon & Ball fame, dies after testing positive for Covid-19
- Culture
- October 29, 2020, 14:14
Tommy Cannon has said he is “devastated” following the death of his comedy partner Bobby Ball at the age of 76. The comedian, actor and author had be(...)

Touching response to Marcus Rashford’s clarion call reveals very best of England
- Soccer
- October 24, 2020, 07:00
When Marcus Rashford wakes up on Saturday morning, he’s entitled to feel that it has been a fairly productive week. First he swooped in to score the (...)

Jason Molina: Eight Gates review – An intimate and faintly epic wonder
- Music
- August 7, 2020, 05:00
Around 2006/07, Jason Molina moved from the US midwest to London, tilting himself towards an adventure that would become the material for this re(...)

IVF’s slow Irish birth: ‘It was not greeted with open arms’
- Parenting
- July 25, 2018, 05:00
Louise Brown, the first in vitro fertilisation (IVF) baby, was born 40 years ago today at Oldham General Hospital in England. Known at the time as th(...)

Michael Walker: Teenage dreams so hard to be brought to reality
- Soccer
- March 3, 2018, 07:00
Two Saturdays, two prodigies: last weekend you could feel the buzz on Fulham Palace Road as 23,000 gathered in west London for Fulham versus Wolves at(...)

Publicly funded and legally regulated fertility treatment is ‘critical’
- Social Affairs
- January 10, 2018, 21:09
It is “critical” that fertility treatment be publicly funded and legally regulated here, a pioneer in the field has warned. Professor Simon Fishel, f(...)

Alluring actor who was pleased to be outrageous
- People
- August 5, 2017, 01:00
With her sensual, pouting mouth, her Gauloises-saturated voice, and her combination of sharp intelligence and smouldering sexuality, Jeanne Moreau, wh(...)

Deep sadness and fears of a backlash have enveloped the Muslim community in the greater Manchester area in the days since a young jihadist, Salman Abe(...)