The Latest Breaking News from Charles Dickens

The manager of Simpson’s Tavern, the much-loved City restaurant said to have served Charles Dickens, says he has been locked out of discussions to reopen his doors after an “insulting” bid by a rival hopeful owner.

As the city winds down towards Christmas the festive fun ramps up

“Cult” is often indiscriminately applied to film and television. In Cult Movies (1981), film critic Danny Peary argued that it should be reserved for “special films which for one reason or another have been taken to heart by segments of the movie audience, cherished, protected, and most of all, enthusiastically…

The climate crisis is already affecting our potato and Brussels sprout harvests, while animal feed for our turkeys has become incredibly expensive, writes Hannah Twiggs. We will have to change our Christmas dinners as a result. But would that be such a bad thing?

Charles Dickens takes to the stage and Ebenezer Scrooge is a woman with a moving backstory in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s adaptation

As The Muppet Christmas Carol returns to cinemas this month, Amanda Killelea explores the story behind how one of the best adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel overcame doubters to become a much-loved festive classic

The country superstar has written a clutch of new songs for this Appalachian take on the festive classic. But will she drop by to see it?

Documents believed to have been written by author withdrawn from auction after expert doubts veracity

The Muppet Christmas Carol is 30 years old on Saturday - it’s the best Christmas film ever and this is a hill I will die on