Popular actor known for his many varied roles and appearing with his wife, Prunella Scales, in C4’s Great Canal Journeys Although Timothy West, who has died aged 90, never played the greatest stage roles at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, he took on many of them – Falstaff (twice), King Lear (four times), Uncle Vanya, Willy Loman, Ibsen’s Solness – in regional reps and on tour, in a career that spanned seven decades and established him as one of the most […]

Boiler bother | Immigration and wars | Bradford blow | Working people | ME/CFS | Erotic SaturdayA few years ago, I got fed up trying to reprogramme my confusing boiler controls twice a year when the clocks change (What is the most efficient way to use central heating? Your energy questions answered, 26 October). So I reset the time on it by just half an hour. Now it comes on a bit late at the start of autumn, when it’s not that cold anyway, and a bit early in the depths of winter, […]

MP for nearby Spen Valley’s bill to propose change in law is creating disquiet in a community already concerned about health provision after CovidOn the streets of Bradford, where customers are inspecting colourful stacks of fruit and vegetables piled high outside the shops that sit in the shadow of tall minarets, assisted dying is not the hot topic of conversation.Many here do not know that a debate on the issue is playing out in parliament, after Kim Leadbeater, the MP for nearby Spen […]

Hussain founded a chain of Indian restaurants in the UK and claimed to have invented the ‘hanging naan’Shabir Hussain, the celebrity chef known as the “king of curry” who claimed to have invented the “hanging naan”, has died age 56.Hussain founded a chain of Indian restaurants in the UK and owned dozens of food venues across the north of England, the Midlands and Scotland. Continue reading...

English Teacher won the Mercury prize, Amy Gledhill won the Edinburgh comedy award – and now even Beyoncé wants a piece of the action. Why has ‘God’s own county’ become such an artistic force?‘Some people think Yorkshire’s all cobbled streets and whippets,” says musician Corinne Bailey Rae, who was born, educated and lives in God’s own country. “It’s so condescending when people ask me, ‘Why do you still live in Leeds?’ It’s a really exciting city to be part […]