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What to say aboutTheatreReviewDoes this new play about A-level students chalk up top marks from the critics? Or is it double detention for the prolific playwright?A new play about young people? Marvellous! The internet generation! More relevant than ever! Just the sort of thing to slot into one's next conversation on contemporary theatre. Let's just hope it isn't awful. Fortunately for well-meaning theatre types everywhere, Punk Rock isn't. Indeed, the critics' favourable verdicts on Simon Stephens's new play are so closely aligned that they might as well have gone home with each other's notebooks.

The ObserverMoviesThe real Bettie Page was a far cry from the scandalous pin-up model of Fifties America'Adam and Eve were naked in the Garden of Eden,' said the notorious Fifties pin-up Bettie Page. 'When they sinned, they put clothes on.' Page, who had a religious conversion on New Year's Eve 1958, was subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency when the father of a Florida boy scout who had committed suicide found bondage photos in his son's room.

Crime This article is more than 13 years oldBody found near Windsor Great Park identified as missing millionaireThis article is more than 13 years oldHusband charged with murder of Joanna Brown, whose body was discovered in woods on FridayA body found by police near Windsor Great Park has been confirmed as that of missing millionaire Joanna Brown, officers said today . Brown, 46, from Ascot, Berkshire, was reported missing last Monday when a family member raised the alarm, after being unable to contact her.

Mexico This article is more than 10 years oldMexico clown convention condemns fancy-dress drug cartel killingThis article is more than 10 years oldLatin American clowns gathered in Mexico City say killer dressed in wig and rubber nose had nothing to do with themDelegates to a three-day Latin American clown convention in Mexico City have distanced themselves from the murder last week of a drug lord by a hitman in fancy dress, insisting no genuine member of their profession would have committed the crime.

The long readItalyOn 26 November 2010, Yara Gambirasio, 13, went missing. Three months later her body was discovered in scrubland nearby. So began one of the most complex murder investigations in Italian history, which will reach its climax later this year Yara Gambirasio should only have been gone a short while. On Friday 26 November 2010, at 5.15pm, she left home to go to the gym, just a few hundred metres from her home.

More than a decade on, fact and fiction remain entangled in the tale of former teammates turned enemies. The human core of the entire episode, though, is not a footballer Published: 3 May 2020 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaJ6fpMGjrculZrCZqaOybq7RopugnVuirq%2Bvx56qrZ2imLa1xQ%3D%3D

Texas This article is more than 7 months oldWinnie-the-Pooh book teaches Texas kids to ‘run, hide, fight’ in a shootingThis article is more than 7 months oldStay Safe book, produced by a law enforcement consulting firm in Houston, was sent home in backpacks of children Texas schoolchildren as young as four years old are being given Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon books, teaching them to “run, hide, fight” if a gunman enters their building.

ShortcutsTV crime dramaAs the 20th series starts, who can forget Henry Cavill being bitten by a fox or Orlando Bloom being jabbed with a pitchfork? You don’t know DCI John Barnaby? Younger cousin of Tom, in the same line of work, took over from him in England’s deadliest county about six seasons ago? As Midsomer Murders begins, somewhat inconceivably, its 20th season, it is easy to forget that the professional partnership of John Nettles’ Barnaby and fresh-faced naif Troy are no longer the beating heart of the show – not least because there are always reruns playing on the telly.

Elijah McClainEx-police officer sentenced to 14 months in jail for killing Elijah McClain in 2019Randy Roedema, found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, is the first official to be sentenced in the 23-year-old’s killing A former Colorado police officer convicted in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain was sentenced to 14 months in county jail on Friday. Randy Roedema, an ex-Aurora police department (APD) officer, was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault in October.