Her brutal performance set the tone for a quartet of dramas about life at its hardest

Comments sparked outrage on Twitter where one user branded BBC presenter 'sexist dinosaur'

Ah, the magic of the marginalia. Because regardless of what the history books tell us about The Clash and the Sex Pistols, for anyone growing up in the suburbs towards the end of the 1970s, the group most responsible for politically awakening the nation’s sixth-formers, one skinny tie at a time, was the Tom Robinson Band.

Scrum-half shows leadership and invention to outwit the Lions defence

It’s not just people labouring under the “God delusion” who provoke the ire of Professor Richard Dawkins. The outspoken atheist has launched a furious rant at Amazon over an instruction manual he described as an “illiterate disgrace”.

Terri Judd watches a group of men of who stormed the beaches at Normandy relive their memories as part of a project to make sure we never forget

Warner Bros has lined up almost 100 promotional partners for their new summer blockbuster ‘Man of Steel’. Keep reading to see some of the tie-ins that have been signed up.

John Lichfield hears some of thinning ranks of D-Day soldiers remember stories that could be lost forever

Some of thinning ranks of D-Day soldiers remember stories that could be lost forever

Selling used games will be decided by publishers and only allowed through 'participating retailers'

Nightmarish black comedy A Field in England was shot in just 12 days 

On the 69th anniversary of D-Day, a new battle is being fought: to preserve the memories of those who were there, before it is too late and you can help

The  pivotal battle is about to pass over the horizon of living memory

This summer (which happened last weekend, in case you missed it), I was mostly to be found spreading out a huge box of old photographs to dry in the sun in my dad's garden. Holiday snaps, I thought, as I salvaged pack after pack of rain-soaked Prontaprints featuring Seventies blue skies and Nineties nostalgia, have changed phenomenally. And so, it seems, have the holidays themselves.