The aria - "Ebben? Ne andrò lontano" - famously adorning the films Diva and A Single Man is almost as ubiquitous as the eponymous heroine's name - which features in the Guinness Book of Records as being mentioned more times in Catalani's rarely performed opera than in any other.

"Work is more fun than fun," Noel Coward once declared. As far as we know, though, Noel never had to drudge from nine to five in an office processing the timesheets of care-workers. That happens to be the fate of Marie, the twentysomething harried and likeable central character in Mongrel Island, Ed Harris's accomplished, if slightly trying play.

A hiker yesterday discovered the bodies of six mountain climbers in France's Hautes-Alpes region, the apparent victims of an avalanche.

The Cowles case

Trial has scarred us, says Dowler family / Surrey Police sorry for inquiry’s failings / Reporting blamed as second case is dropped

An "avalanche" of publicity about Levi Bellfield, which led to the collapse of an attempted kidnap allegation against him, will be referred to the Attorney General.

Even some of the trade union allies who ensured his narrow victory over his brother are becoming restless

Swiss police continued their search Sunday for a missing skier after an avalanche buried a party of French skiers in the country's south.

Battered Liberal Democrats were boosted by a shock council by-election triumph in Tunbridge Wells Borough, covering the genteel Kent spa town and home of the legendary "Disgusted".

Some of Antonia Fraser's memoir of her decades with Harold Pinter does consist of lustrous names dropping in an avalanche of well-connected badinage onto Notting Hill lawns and Caribbean terraces. But not much.

A British national is missing after he was caught in an avalanche in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountain range, the Foreign Office said.

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Ten years on from his father Robert's death, Simon Usborne reflects on what their brief time together taught him – and why his quest for adventure is as strong as his father's

Leslie Woit reveals that in Canada it's easy to get your off-piste adrenalin fix – If you know where to look