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My friend John Rumsby, a museum curator, who has died from cancer aged 75, brought an appreciation of social history to the community where he lived and worked. Collections manager at Kirklees Museums, West Yorkshire, before his retirement on health grounds in 2007, he continued to publish meticulously researched articles …
‘Our computer sampler cost more than a house!’: how the Korgis made Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime
James Warren
, vocalist/bassist/songwriter
We’d had a Top 20 single in the UK with If I Had You and were recording our second Korgis album, Dumb Waiters. I was living in Bath and had a piano in the flat that I couldn’t really play – I am a guitarist and bass …
The last Big Thing: why next men’s Ashes may be the longest form’s long goodbye
“Aw look, the Ashes is a long, long way away.” Is it, though? Is it, really? Ben Duckett hit all the right notes on Channel 7’s Big Bash coverage in the past week, speaking after his Green Team had beaten their Red Team local rivals at a beautifully sun-dappled Melbourne …
Stay on top of tech: five ways to take back control, from emails to AI
Monday briefing: What you need to know about Pierre Poilievre, the favourite to win Canada’s next election
Good morning. He is the abrasive leader who has taken his party from the conventional right to the populist flank. He paints a dark vision of a “broken” nation and promises to put his country first. He is fond of hurling insults at his political opponents, says he wants to …
‘I like to read’: AJ Brown tucks into book midgame during Eagles’ playoff win
AJ Brown has many strings to his bow: sure-handed wide receiver,
andwould be professional baseball player
. On Sunday, he added another facet: the NFL’s most committed reader.The Eagles wide receiver was caught by TV cameras casually flicking through a book on the …
Northern Irish nun killed in Ecuador earthquake takes step towards sainthood
A nun from Northern Ireland who was killed in an earthquake while she was teaching music in Ecuador has taken a step closer to sainthood.
A ceremony on Sunday afternoon started the process of beatification for Clare Crockett, who died in the Portoviejo, Ecuador during an earthquake in April 2016. …
Deep joy: Wales embraces ‘hwyl’ in tourism campaign to rival Danish ‘hygge’
The Danish word
hygge
, which summons a feeling of cosy, fire-crackling contentedness, has done its fair share for tourism in Scandinavia as well as sparking a string of self-help guides. is aiming to draw tourists to its hills, valleys, coastlines and cities by …‘It’s a continuation of hope’: Paris-based TV station provides a lifeline for women in Afghanistan
From a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hours a day into homes across Afghanistan, even as women are being steadily erased from public life in the country.
“For us, it’s a …
‘We are shattered’: Afro-Ecuadorians mourn four boys found dead after encounter with military
Ismael Arroyo, 15, dreamed of becoming a great footballer, like Brazil’s Neymar. His brother, Josué, 14, preferred the French star Kylian Mbappé. For Steven Medina, 11, playing like either Neymar or Mbappé would have been just fine. Nehemías Saúl Arboleda, 14, had a different dream: he aspired to become a …