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My friend and collaborator Richard Bleasdale, who has died unexpectedly aged 59, was a true innovator whose software design helped to revolutionise the live entertainment industry.

In the 1990s, Richard wrote the programme for the first

media server

, Catalyst, which came to market in 2001. A …

Comeback kids don’t come much more extraordinary – or well-loved – than Ke Huy Quan. After starring, aged 13, as Short Round in 1984’s

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

, and then the following year as Data in

The Goonies

, he struggled to forge a …

You just got back from Egypt. What was that like?

There are 6 million cats in Egypt that are kept as pets, and there are 100 million that live on the streets. And they’re all missing an eye, or a part of a paw, or they’re filthy. So …

WH Smith has reported falling sales in its UK high street stores, while revenues rose at its more successful travel arm, as the retail group attempts to

offload its ailing town centres division

.

The retailer’s up-for-sale high street division – where it sells newspapers, books, stationery, cards …

João Diamante was gripped by a sense of belonging as he stepped out of the airport terminal thousands of miles from his birthplace in Brazil.

“The first thing I felt was that I was at home,” recalled the 33-year-old celebrity chef from Rio. “Nobody looked at me like they were …

Plans to

boycott television interviews

by trainers at Sandown on Saturday have been abandoned “in the best interests of the sport”, the Professional Racing Association announced on Tuesday.

The PRA, which was founded in 2024 and headed by the former British Horseracing Board chair Peter Savill, claims …

It was 1982 and young film-maker Paul Oremland was in an east London leather and denim pub, about to meet a character who would change his life. “Andy was pretty unforgettable,” recalls Oremland. “Full of amazing tales, and with a wealth of knowledge about people, places and quirky London life.”

When talking erotic thrillers, Nicole Kidman’s name isn’t the first name that springs to mind. But more than any other, it is perhaps the genre that has borne Kidman aloft – and, I would argue, to which she’s given the most.

It was in Dead Calm, holding her own against …

Hyperfixed

The much-missed Reply All delved into internet culture with wit, smarts and a lightness of touch that has been sorely missed since its conclusion in 2022. Now, former host Alex Goldman is hoping to ape its success with

Hyperfixed

, a wholesome podcast about listeners’ varied life …

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