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Boom in cataract surgery in England as private clinics eye huge profits

With NHS England outsourcing nearly 60% of surgery, critics say it is sapping funding for more serious conditions

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‘He made every sentence electric’: Martin Amis remembered by Tina Brown, his old friend and devoted editor

He called her Tiny. She called him Bruno. In this speech from today’s memorial service to the novelist, the legendary magazine editor celebrates her cocky, beguiling and witheringly funny star writer

The Guardian - UK

Trevor Griffiths obituary

Politically committed dramatist and screenwriter admired for his radical stage and television work created over the last 50 years

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‘The timing was impeccable’: why it took a TV series to bring the Post Office scandal to light

Despite a two-year inquiry and years of campaigning, it was the four-hour drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office that enabled the British public to pay proper attention to the unbelievable horrors of this story

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Richard Rampton obituary

Leading defamation barrister who led the courtroom case against the Holocaust denier David Irving in 2000

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Digested week: even a dreary way to dump Trump is a dream

Plus, Dan Wootton and Lawrence Fox demand a dreadful choice, and why Dannii Minogue was always on Brand

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Patients paying £550 an hour to see private GPs amid NHS frustrations

Signs that NHS’s inability to offer prompt care is creating surge in people resorting to private care

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Row about musicals dominating West End ‘fuelled by snobbery’, says Berlusconi director

A row about the dominance of musicals over plays in the West End is fuelled by snobbery, according to the director of a new hit show.

Evening Standard

One in eight Britons pay for private health services, survey shows

Campaigners say underinvestment in NHS is forcing patients to seek private treatment if they can afford it

The Guardian - UK

Enter stage right: the new wave of musicals taking on the West End adaptations

With everything from Bake Off to Pretty Woman putting bums on seats in Theatreland, launching an original homegrown production is harder than ever. But might salvation be at hand in the unlikely shape of Silvio Berlusconi?

The Guardian - UK

The best musicals are the equal of great plays, so why the snobbery?

The song’n’dance genre is everywhere, David Hare has bemoaned. He needs to watch more of these joyous shows

The Guardian - UK

Musicals are having an exceptional moment – but classic plays are vanishing from UK stages

There are invigorating versions of Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma! and Cabaret in London – and some enticing new dramas coming up – yet theatre risks being cut off from its past

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Lloyd Webber hits out at David Hare over claim musicals are ‘strangling’ West End

Playwright Hare claimed that the musical production of ‘Oklahoma!’ is currently ‘squatting’ in the Wyndham’s Theatre

The Independent UK

Curse of abandoned Wild West town - from murder in 'Death Cave' to lion attacks

The abandoned Two Guns in Arizona was once a thriving town that housed a zoo as well as guides around a haunted cave were 42 Apache Indians were killed in an act of revenge

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David Warner was gentle, inquisitive – and stunning on stage

An actor of innate tenderness and grace, Warner had a theatre career of two halves, each with superb performances for the RSC

The Guardian - UK

David Warner obituary

Stage and screen actor hailed for his 1965 Hamlet at the RSC who went on to have a distinguished film and TV career

The Guardian - UK

Ron Pember obituary

Actor whose TV roles ranged from a resistance radio operator in Secret Army to a variety of spivs and seedy operators

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Straight Line Crazy; The Human Voice – review

Ralph Fiennes is firing on all cylinders in David Hare’s new play about a New York highway builder; and Ruth Wilson is beguiling in an unsubtle staging of Cocteau’s monologue

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Evening Standard

Straight Line Crazy review: Ralph Fiennes taps into his inner Pacino

David Hare’s play about New York city planner Robert Moses doesn’t represent the best work of anyone involved

The Guardian - UK

Straight Line Crazy review – Ralph Fiennes enthrals as the man who shaped New York

Fiennes heads an electrifying cast in David Hare’s dynamic portrait of Robert Moses, an aggressive yet visionary urban planner who refused to back down

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