The raw intensity and personal honesty that Richard E Grant brought to Withnail and I was real and has never left him. Now the actor and diarist, still grieving the loss of his wife, talks openly about heartbreak, ambition and his traumatic upbringin ...

Charity Commission finds ‘range of shortfalls’ at Narconon facility after Observer investigation

 

The experiment with five flavours at this Brazilian-inspired place will leave diners feeling only bitter

 

Uproar at Treasury demands for departmental savings was overcome last week, but insiders fear benefit cuts will be the next bump in the road

Guy Chambers among industry figures calling for changes in wake of former One Direction star’s tragic death

At least 73 people died in the strike, doctors and officials say; Israeli army disputes casualty numbers and says attack was directed at a Hamas target

The billionaire’s Trump-supporting Pac will give the money to those who sign a petition that encourages Republicans in Pennsylvania to register to vote

Forecast indicates about 130,000 more people will need palliative care by 2048

At Oktoberfest in London, revellers welcomed last week’s news about their countryman

Viachaslau Hranouski, a former policeman responsible for protecting the Belarus leader, reveals why he fled to join Ukraine’s army

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Thousands of supporters, including Usher, rally in battleground Georgia, as campaign focuses on early votes

 

The actor, 78, talks about the thrill of performing, becoming a mother, and why hers is the luckiest generation of women

 

Vice-president is hosting a get-out-the-vote event in Detroit for the city’s first day of early voting, alongside Michigan-born rapper Lizzo

The novelist and short story writer on her new book about Azrael, the angel of death, her encounters with Raymond Carver and Richard Yates, and why fiction should be uncanny

John Taylor, 44, found with serious injuries outside Kilwinning home in what police believe was ‘targeted attack’