The banker John Studzinski is helping to nurture young theatre directors. He's a living example of how commerce and culture can sit comfortably together

One of the showpiece productions of the forthcoming Royal Opera season is in turmoil after artistic differences saw the Royal Ballet pull out of Les Vêpres Siciliennes just months before opening night.

In 2008, Steve Wright, a forklift truck driver dubbed the “Suffolk strangler”, was jailed for life for murdering five women who worked as prostitutes in Ipswich.

British actress set to beat American rivals to role of former US Secretary of State and First Lady

Hilary Mantel has been denied a literary hat-trick, after American author AM Homes staged an upset to win the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Just over a century after the “world’s most important” hoard of Elizabethan jewellery was discovered by chance in a cellar in London, experts have uncovered important information that may lead to unravelling the mystery of who put it there and why.

'As a teenager I read all these books but never read one that featured a black child like me,' the bestselling author says

The winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction next year will be able to raise a glass of cream liqueur in celebration after Baileys stepped in to sponsor the award.

The 'Special One' has returned to Stamford Bridge

Stephen Mangan and Matthew Macfadyen step into well-polished Wodehousian shoes