Cancer This article is more than 10 months oldFamily wins settlement in claim over teacher’s asbestos cancer deathThis article is more than 10 months oldExclusive: Rochdale council settled case after it was revealed the school Hazel Healey worked in contained asbestos
The family of a teacher who died of cancer due to asbestos exposure at her school has won a settlement, prompting warnings that staff and pupils remain at risk in older buildings.
Frank Ocean This article is more than 11 years oldFrank Ocean: 'My first love was a man'This article is more than 11 years oldMember of Odd Future, a hip-hop collective accused of homophobia, comes out in open letter posted to TumblrFrank Ocean has come out of the closet. Or, at least, that's what he seems to have done. In an open letter posted on his Tumblr, he reminisces about falling in love with a man when he was 19.
Johnny DeppWitnesses testified about a marriage consumed by ‘mutual abuse’, ‘a lot of anger’ and ‘obsessive jealousy’
This article contains descriptions of sexual abuseLaurel AndersonJohnny Depp and Amber Heard’s former marriage counsellor, a clinical psychologist, said Heard initiated incidents to stop Depp leaving, stemming from her fear of abandonment.
Key moments from the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial Read more“It was a point of pride to Heard, if she felt disrespected, to initiate a fight,” Anderson said.
Readers recommendMusicReaders recommend: songs about greed – resultsEven Gordon Gekko would have blushed at the rapacious response to our request for songs about avariceQueen go straight for it, the lyric "I want it all and I want it now" resounding time and again in one of the band's rockier outings. An Arctic Monkeys' tune sharing the same title is an ode to greediness.
Give Give Give Me More More More by the Wonderstuff is a rather shameless declaration of greed.
Film This article is more than 23 years oldRichard Burton's family ridicule homosexual claimThis article is more than 23 years oldRichard Burton's family has responded angrily to claims in a new biography of the hell-raising Welsh actor that he was a closet homosexual.
"If Rich was a homosexual, then I'm a nun," said his brother, Graham Jenkins.
Controversial author Ellis Amburn has claimed in an unauthorised biography of Burton's former wife Elizabeth Taylor that Burton had an affair with Laurence Olivier and tried to seduce Eddie Fisher, then married to Taylor, even as he was stealing his wife from him.
MusicThe life of the co-founder of Frank Zappa’s band GTOs and industry wild child is explored in a raucous new book
For many people, the notion of the groupie brings to mind something generic: a woman known solely for her relationship to her rock star of choice. But the most celebrated of the original groupies – the women who first inspired the term in the 1960s – had attitudes and styles that made them unique creatures, earning them an elevated place in the cutting-edge culture of the day.
ThailandSouth-east Asian nations avoid rules targeting China visitors despite Covid risks, and hope the influx will revive battered tourism sectors
After almost three years of little to no business, Thai tour guide operator Anchalee Vittayanuntapornkul is more than relieved that Chinese tourists will soon be allowed to travel again. “I’m sure if you ask anyone in the tourism industry, the only nationality that they are waiting to see come back is the Chinese tourists,” says Anchalee, who is based in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand.
Summer food specialIce-cream and sorbetA foolproof recipe for a summer dessert from La Grotta Ices' Kitty TraversOne of my earliest memories is of blackcurrant picking on the farm of a family friend in Tiverton, Devon, aged about three. Swishing the leaves and releasing a cloud of the white, acid-drop fragrance, which is so different to the fruit. If you are lucky enough to grow blackcurrants, adding a few leaves to the custard base of this recipe elevates it to another level.
China This article is more than 11 years oldChinese fugitive Lai Changxing sentenced to life in prisonThis article is more than 11 years oldBillionaire who fought extradition from Canada for more than a decade has been jailed for life for smuggling and briberyA billionaire entrepreneur who symbolised the wild excesses of China's economic rise in the 1990s has been jailed for life on charges of smuggling and bribery.
Lai Changxing's conviction by a court in Xiamen - a port city once considered his personal fiefdom - came after a 12-year extradition battle that ended last year, when Canada handed over the man often described as China's most wanted fugitive on condition that he not be given the death penalty.
Led Zeppelin This article is more than 6 months oldDaughter of music manager Peter Grant puts Led Zeppelin stake up for saleThis article is more than 6 months oldHelen Grant hopes to use windfall to further legacy of her father, who she says was band’s ‘driving force’
When Helen Grant was a young girl in boarding school, she would hide the fact that her father was Peter Grant, the music manager who turned Led Zeppelin into the world’s first stadium rock phenomenon and helped to change the industry.