TheatreObituaryPamela Lane obituaryStalwart of British theatre and first wife of John OsbornePamela Lane, the first wife of the playwright John Osborne, who has died at the age of 80, outlived all of his subsequent four wives. Her impetuous, runaway marriage to Osborne in June 1951 – when they were both 21 – became the model for the murderous marriage of Jimmy Porter and Alison in Look Back in Anger. (Osborne wrote it on her portable typewriter.
Wisconsin This article is more than 6 months oldTeen dies in sawmill accident as US states aim to roll back child labor lawsThis article is more than 6 months oldInvestigation underway after police were called to find unresponsive teenager last week at Florence Hardwoods sawmill A 16-year-old boy has died following an industrial accident at a sawmill in Wisconsin. Police received an early-morning call last Thursday regarding an unresponsive teenager at Florence Hardwoods, a sawmill in northern Wisconsin, according to the Florence county sheriff’s office.
Children's booksChildren's booksThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time by Mark Haddon - review‘It is one of those stories, like To Kill a Mockingbird, that I feel everyone should know about’ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time is an incredible rollercoaster of a tale, written in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome called, Christopher Boone After discovering his neighbour’s dog has been murdered, he sets off to find out who the murderer could be.
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The ObserverShere HiteWomen’s sex lives were a mystery to men. Then along came Shere HiteYvonne RobertsA new documentary celebrates the life of the feminist pioneer who shocked the world – and about time too In a society in which nine-year-olds watch pornography and song lyrics are more explicit than The Kama Sutra, the revolution that Shere Hite helped to bring about in the 1970s, employing the words vagina, clitoris and masturbation, on primetime television for a start, is easily forgotten – which is exactly what has happened.