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The long-awaited reopening of the Citizens theatre in Glasgow will mark a turning point for Scottish drama in 2025, with new artistic leadership across venues, including the Hollywood star

Alan Cumming at Pitlochry Festival theatre

The Citizens will …

It’s not unusual for a trip through one of Ikea’s labyrinthine stores to end with a $2 hotdog, but more Australians are skipping the flat-pack furniture altogether and heading straight to the dining section.

Ikea is seeing more growth from its in-store restaurants and food offerings than its home furnishings, …

Guinness is raiding its reserves in Ireland to boost shipments to the UK, where a social media-fuelled

surge in demand

The reserves – known as security stocks – are usually earmarked for Irish customers but are now being used to ease …

People with disabilities are facing potential hardship because banks are scrapping trust accounts that allow money to be managed safely on their behalf.

Victims awarded personal injury settlements and those with learning difficulties are among those facing “severe consequences” as accounts are closed or frozen by high street banks and …

In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower in September, throngs of fashion elites were flocking to a makeshift catwalk along the French capital’s Avenue de Saxe.

Paris fashion week was in full swing. But as the likes of

Vogue

Rachel Reeves is seeking a “deeper, more mature relationship” between Britain and the EU: this was her central message to the bloc’s finance ministers in Brussels a fortnight ago.

In her

brief speech

Workers are considering legal action against a swathe of upmarket London restaurant owners including Harrods, the Savoy Grill, the Ivy and the Wolseley that add a cover charge to diners’ bills that does not go to workers.

Legislation that

came into force in October

Police in Germany have said a man suspected of killing at least five people and injuring hundreds more after he drove a car at speed

through a crowded Christmas market

In the central town of Magdeburg, where the attack happened …

Last Christmas, the Sinaloa cartel made a show of sending branded gifts to children’s hospitals. This year, a bloody war between rival factions of Mexico’s notorious drug mafia has cast a shadow over the holiday, leaving Culiacán’s Christmas fair nearly empty, and the city silent at night.

Sinaloa has always …

For many of the residents of Mar House, the past year has been spent in perpetual twilight.

The seven-­storey block in Colindale, north London, is cloaked in blue netting and scaffolding that shroud its rooms in shadow in the middle of the day. The netting is for work to replace …