15 h. ago Wendy & Peter Pan at the Barbican review: 'heavy stuff but lightly done'

Ella Hickson’s adaptation sees the Royal Shakespeare Company explore sibling death and queer subtext alongside the pirates and crocodiles

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15 h. ago Holidaymakers in Jamaica describe scenes inside emergency shelter as Hurricane Melissa wreaked havoc

Holidaymakers Wendy and Steve Shirk said they were expecting "sunshine and roses" on a family trip in Jamaica, but found themselves spending the night in a shelter, as Hurricane Melissa made landfall on the island.

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37 h. ago Sweet dreams? Healthy ways to put pudding back on the menu | Kitchen aide

Our expert panel delivers the answers to levelling up your dessert without undoing your healthy eating effortsI eat healthily, but my meals are never really complete without pudding. Yoghurt and stewed fruit aside, do you have any suggestions for what will hit the spot without verging too far into the unhealthy? Wendy, by emailThe truth is, you can’t often have your cake and eat it – or not a big piece, anyway. “My main piece of advice, which maybe isn’t all that welcome, is to keep to small portions,” says Brian Levy, author of Good & Sweet, in which his recipes contain no added sugar. “My grandma would keep many chocolate bars and have just one, but that’s never really worked for me.”’Tis the season for stewed fruit, but have you tried Melissa Hemsley’s banana slices sandwiched together with peanut butter, half-dipped in melted chocolate and put in the freezer? (FYI the same tactic also works like a dream with dates.) “You can’t beat frozen grapes, either,” says baker Lily Jon...

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8 d. ago Ella Hickson’s Wendy & Peter Pan Begins in London October 21

Ella Hickson’s Wendy & Peter Pan Begins in London October 21  Playbill

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1 week ago Dan Brown's back; this month's popular fiction:  PAPER HEART by Cecelia Ahern, THE LONG SHOE by Bob Mortimer, THE SECRET OF SECRETS by Dan Brown

Wendy Holden reviews this month's best popular fiction

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1 week ago The police officer who tries to keep restless colleagues in the force

And PC Wendy Janas is having some success

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2 w. ago Mona’s Eyes by Thomas Schlesser review – painfully clunky lessons in art

This French bestseller, in which a girl and her grandfather visit Paris museums, aims to be a Sophie’s World for art history – but the conversations are sentimental and simplisticThe complaint that cynics often make about modern art is that most of it looks as though it were made by children. (If your 10-year-old is pulling out crumpled Kandinskys from their schoolbags on a regular basis then lucky you, I say.) But what about art criticism? Could a child’s understanding of art be as radical as John Berger’s or as wise as Sister Wendy’s, for instance? Art historian Thomas Schlesser thinks so. His debut novel, a bestseller in France, has been translated into 38 languages. Perhaps in one of them it lives up to the hype.In Mona’s Eyes, a 10-year-old girl embarks on an artistic adventure with her grandfather, visiting the most famous works in Paris museums over the course of a year. They pledge to gaze at these works intently and to discuss them deeply. The resulting conversations are in...

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2 w. ago ‘Real Housewives of Potomac’ star Wendy Osefo and her husband ‘ask for privacy’ after arrests on fraud charges

‘At this time, they respectfully ask for privacy as they focus on their family and the legal process ahead,’ a representative for the couple said

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3 w. ago 'He looked like a small child...I didn't have any sexual feelings whatsoever': She was stunned by his height, stole his bread and then ghosted him in our most tragic Blind Date yet

Every week, FEMAIL asks two singletons to report back from their blind date. This week, it was Wendy and Hank's turn to wine and dine.

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3 w. ago Wendy’s is giving away free fries to celebrate Taylor Swift’s new album

Swift’s 12th album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ was released Friday

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4 w. ago Transvision Vamp’s Wendy James on scandals, reunions and her beef with Elvis Costello

She became an 80s pop icon – and a media hate figure. Now, reforming her group after more than 30 years, James recalls her painful path through through the music business, surviving ‘Harvey Weinstein-type’ situations, and working with punk’s finestBy 1989, Wendy James and her pop-rock band Transvision Vamp had reached the UK No 1 spot with their second album, two of their singles had been in the top five, and James, with her peroxide blond hair and fondness for lingerie and leather, had crossed the pop-rock divide as a cover star for both Smash Hits and NME. “I thought I was going to be bigger than Madonna,” she says, “and I was pretty sure I was going to win an Oscar.”Instead, everything unravelled within two years: the band split up after their third album was poorly received, and James vanished from the public eye for a decade. She later built a solo career, and hasn’t wanted to revisit the past. “Everyone fucking reforms,” she says, sat in a cafe in Toulouse close to where she h...

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