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“This is not just digits on a bank account screen, this is someone’s life savings"

The incurable lung disease, caused by the inhalation of silica particles, has received increasing attention amid calls for a ban on engineered stone bench tops, but silica's presence in ceramics is less commonly known.

The Glasgow born artist was one of the greatest designers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with a number of rare objects to be sold to the highest bidder.

Now in his 90s, the great German-British painter is finally putting his own face up for scrutiny – with wondrously strange results

"I’ve always loved Banksy, his work is iconic"

Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian unite, Mat Collishaw dives into the digital and a modern master considers himself in his 90s – all in your weekly dispatch

An elderly man who was intoxicated when he struck and killed a pedestrian along WA's coast avoids an immediate jail term.

We British “love our dogs”, said Rachel Campbell-Johnston in The Times. And since at least the 17th century, British artists have shown equal enthusiasm for depicting man’s best friend. Thomas Gainsborough painted his beloved mutts and put their portrait in “pride of place” above the mantelpiece in his London house…

TV icon Paul O'Grady died at the age of 67 at the end of March. A new mural of his alter ego Lily Savage was recently unveiled