17 h. ago Sweet thing: a personal look at a photographer’s Cuban slavery heritage – photo essay

From the remnants of my great-grandparents’ Cuban home near the sugar plantation that is part of Unesco’s Slave Route programme – where they were once enslaved - to personal artefacts, each piece reconstructs an uncertain pastGathering information on our origins that might help with constructing self-identities could be a beautiful endeavour.Unfortunately, for millions of people worldwide, retracing a past filled with unfinished stories is like trying to nurture a tree whose roots have been severed.I still remember that narrow ribbon of earth winding down from my grandfather’s house towards the old Triunvirato plantation – the same fields where an enslaved woman called Carlota, who led an uprising in 1843, raised her voice against chains. In the silence of that road, it feels like a place that has been frozen in time Continue reading...

Culture

19 h. ago ‘I can’t waste this’: Michael Sheen on his riskiest role yet – saving Wales’s national theatre

When funding cuts closed National Theatre Wales, the actor saw it as an emergency, and set about building a replacement. As its first show comes to the stage, he explains his plan to bring big productions back to his homelandSince Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town in 1938, it is said that not a day has passed when the Pulitzer prize-winning show hasn’t been performed. “Every time I read it, I come away with the feeling of having been woken up,” says Michael Sheen, star of the upcoming touring production of Wilder’s play about a close-knit community in small-town America. “With this urgent sense of ‘I have to not waste this.’”Transposing the heart of the American classic to Wales, this new production also marks the launch of Welsh National Theatre, a hugely ambitious company formed – and financed – by Sheen in response to the collapse of the former National Theatre Wales. “Opening night is going to be more than just the opening night of a play,” says Russell T Davies, the show’s creativ...

Events

22 h. ago The field between the hospital and the motorway that's in the balance

Residents living near Royal Bolton Hospital say plans for 250 new homes on green land risk worsening congestion, flooding and wildlife loss - and fear their voices are being side-lined as major development ambitions gather pace.

Politics

45 h. ago Neighbourhood expansion approved next to primary school after delay

Developers Jones Homes plan to erect 41 detached and semi-detached homes.

Culture

58 h. ago Welsh village erupts in fury over plans to house 70 asylum seekers in a former care home as 500 locals queue up to protest

Police officers kept watch and patrolled Rhosllanerchrugog, near Wrexham, today as around 500 locals queued for the packed public meeting.

Events

62 h. ago David and Victoria Beckham 'FINALLY win war against their neighbours' over plans for a new access road at their £12M Cotswolds home

David and Victoria Beckham have reportedly won their war against neighbours over plans to build a new access road to their £12million Cotswolds home.

Economics

67 h. ago Housebuilder MJ Gleeson blames council planning departments and Budget for lack of new homes

Housebuilders have suffered the biggest slump since the pandemic with much of the blame placed on the timing of the Budget.

Society

3 d. ago Businessman tried to kiss air steward on flight home with wife, court hears

Philip Gould, 64, tried to kiss a male flight attendant and said 'there are not enough people on the plane to restrain me' while flying home from the Bahamas on a British Airways flight with his wife, a court heard

Events

4 d. ago NASCAR driver Greg Biffle's North Carolina home burglarized weeks after plane crash, officials say

Sheriff's deputies are investigating an alleged break-in at the North Carolina home of retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, who died last month in a plane crash along with six others

Events

4 d. ago Democratic lawmakers to file articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem

Robin Kelly, Ilhan Omar and Maxine Dexter to move against homeland security secretary over ICE killing of Renee GoodDemocratic representative Robin Kelly on Wednesday plans to formally introduce articles of impeachment against Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, following the fatal shooting of a US citizen by an immigration agent in Minneapolis last week.The new push comes amid mounting national outrage over the death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, at the wheel of her car on a residential street, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago New images show £100m transformation of south London neighbourhood

The plans include new council homes, a library, GP surgery and youth club

Economics

4 d. ago James Corden 'sells £8.5m countryside mansion after abandoning plans to live there'

The Gavin & Stacey star bought the horseshoe-shaped Templecombe House near Henley-on-Thames back in 2020 with plans to make it his family home

Economics

5 d. ago TfL wants to change 5 London bus routes amid plans to build 10k new homes

TfL wants to change 5 London bus routes amid plans to build 10k new homes  My London

Politics

5 d. ago Fury at plans to build 150 homes next to village which inspired Charles Dickens' 'The Pickwick Papers'

Fury has erupted over plans to build 150 new homes next to a sleepy English village in Wiltshire which inspired Charles Dickens' first novel The Pickwick Papers.

Politics

5 d. ago Benedict Cumberbatch and Ed Miliband's wife face defeat in battle against plans for £5.6million five

The Sherlock star is among residents in Dartmouth Park, north London, who want Camden Council to reject plans to transform an existing two-floor home.

Economics

5 d. ago Moment Polish drug smuggler who flooded Home Counties with cocaine is arrested getting off plane in London

Blazej Holub, 43, was placed in handcuffs when he got off a flight from Warsaw at London Luton Airport after police worked out his identity from EncroChat messages about a drugs shipment.

Events

5 d. ago Holly Willoughby dealt fresh blow as £8m home planning row threatens comeback

Holly Willoughby's hopeful plans to return to our television screens in 2026 could be threatened after her dream £8million home became the focus of a bitter planing row

Economics

6 d. ago Joy and relief as homeless residents move into new Trafford housing development

'I have my home, I can plan for the future and look forward to it with real hope for better times ahead'

Politics

6 d. ago Residents ‘left out’ of debate over controversial plan to pump ‘gas blend’ into homes

One expert called it ‘an absurd project’ and a ‘boondoggle’

Society

7 d. ago Stella McCartney embroiled in otter row over plans for 'luxury' Scots home

A bitter row has erupted following plans by Stella McCartney to build a £5million "luxury second home" in Lochaber.

Politics