78 minutes ago Mum’s terror as baby trapped in sinking car before hero dad rescues child from Storm Bert floodwaters

Paige Newsome said her partner pulled their child to safety through the car window as water poured into the vehicle

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2 hours ago The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan review – vividly crafted Depression

The US author’s debut collection from 1934 focuses on impoverished individuals in precarious times using language that is punchy and full of compassionMany of the 26 stories in William Saroyan’s 1934 debut collection – reissued this month with an introduction by Stephen Fry – take place in Depression-era San Francisco and explore the experiences of ordinary people trying to get by. California-born, the son of Armenians who fled the genocidal Ottoman empire, Saroyan draws on his own heritage. His narrators are often struggling young writers, such as the protagonist of the title story, who lives on a diet of “bread and coffee and cigarettes” and laments the lack of “weeds in the park that could be cooked”.Despite the focus on poverty, there is an ebullience to Saroyan’s punchy prose. Take...

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3 hours ago ‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology

Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by the classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hitGreek myth is not a stable thing. There is no such thing as a canonical, “original” version of a Greek myth. The stories that remain to us – the material of classical plays and poetry, and of visual culture from pottery to pediments – are already elaborations and accretions. In the ancient Greek and Roman world, stories were adapted and remade to serve the needs of the moment. The Greek tragedians often took the germ of an idea from the Homeric epics, and built an entire plot from it. Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, for instance, is in dialogue with Homer’s Odyssey: b...

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3 hours ago Chris Sutton's goalkeeper son scores first ever goal as he joins in trolling of Celtic hero with Shearer celebration

The Wroxham keeper score dhis first ever goal aged 28 in their 5-2 win over Grays Athletic

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4 hours ago The 80s: Photographing Britain review – in your face and to the barricades

Tate Britain, LondonFrom Greenham and Orgreave to Belfast and City slickers, visceral images from a turbulent decade jostle for attention in a show that feels overwhelming in its scale and confusing narrativeThere are several photographs in this exhaustive and exhausting exhibition that could be considered iconic. John Harris’s black-and-white image of a mounted police officer swinging a truncheon at the head of a woman during the miners’ strike is certainly one of them. Another, perhaps not so obvious contender is Paul Graham’s colour photograph of a seemingly ordinary looking traffic roundabout in Belfast, in which you have to look closely to see a British soldier running across the road in the background.One visceral, the other understated, they both say something about a decade that...

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7 hours ago Stephen Flynn's two jobs bid was misguided, but SNP can't be surprised of calls for a reset

A fortnight is a long time in politics

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7 hours ago Grammy winner to headline charity Christmas concert with readings from Hollywood stars

A host of famous faces will perform at The Fayre of St James this week

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8 hours ago Hero cop almost died rescuing stranded motorists as storms battered Scotland

PC Sally Nicol also saved the life of her colleague – and narrowly escaped with her own – after being caught in a series of avalanche-like mudslides on a country road during Storm Babet.

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11 hours ago STEPHEN WRIGHT: The 'evil genius', bigamist, drug dealer and playboy peer who 'hid' Lord Lucan for years

His final resting place can be found under a tree in a cemetery 7,000 miles from his old stomping ground at the House of Lords, where he once pledged allegiance to the Crown.

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