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Success stories! HALLOWEEN COMPETITION: Winners revealed 

Byline: Duncan Gibbons

CONGRATULATIONS to Anita Williams, Astrid Roden-Schnell and Natalie Hewitt, the winners of our Halloween short...

Scot's elegy for a friend wins poetry prize 

Byline: Tim Cornwell

SCOTTISH poet Don Paterson has picked up one of Britain's top awards for a book of verse in which he mourns...

I'm a geographer 

Stephen Fry, 52, is an actor, writer and broadcaster. He recently completed filming a new BBC Two television series, Last Chance to See, in which...

Love opens a new chapter 

Byline: Richard Kay

HAVING emerged from two years of depression over the death of her father and the break-up of her last romance...

Kirsty's Short Story Enchants English Heritage Judges 

CREATIVE writers were rewarded last night as the winners of a competition held by English Heritage were announced at Belsay Hall, Castle and...

Students produce a bestseller 

A NEW Guisborough Prior Pursglove College anthology of poetry, prose and drama is selling like hot cakes! Produced by English students aged from...

Quiz Of The Day 

QUIZ OF THE DAY Natalie Pinkham - see Question 8 1. In Greek mythology what was the collective name of the goddesses who presided over the...

Sleep and Wakefulness Serve as Dueling Themes in a Present-Day Production of Bellini’s La Sonnambula, Airing on Great Performances at the Met on PBS July 11 

Mary Zimmerman’s Unique Adaptation Stages the Opera in a Rehearsal Room Set in the Swiss Alps NEW YORK --...

Happy birthday 

Tony Britton, actor, 85; Charles Saatchi, advertising executive, 66; David Troughton, actor, 59; Patricia Cornwell, writer, 53; Michael J Fox,...

Birthdays 

Actors Johnny Depp, 46; Michael J Fox, 48; Natalie Portman, 28; writers Patricia Cornwell, 53; Aaron Sorkin, 48; reader Peter Waddington, Old...