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Sir Salman Rushdie ‘pleased’ by maximum sentence for attacker

The 77-year-old Booker Prize-winning author gave evidence during the trial around the 2022 attack in New York.

Evening Standard · May 26, 2025

‘He is the BBC!’ Alan Yentob, the eternally curious creative who made TV no one else could have dreamed up

From extraordinary interviews with Bowie to green-lighting Ab Fab and Have I Got News For You, Yentob changed the course of not just arts programming but television itself

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2025

Former BBC TV presenter and executive Alan Yentob dies aged 78

Former BBC executive and TV presenter Alan Yentob has died at the age of 78, his family has announced.

The National (Scotland) · May 25, 2025

Kids Company report has ‘chilling impact’ on charity sector, High Court told

A two-day hearing is taking place over the Charity Commission’s February 2022 report into the collapsed children’s charity.

Evening Standard · Mar 19, 2025

Coldplay join calls to overturn Kids Company report ahead of legal challenge

Supporters of late founder Camila Batmanghelidjh say Charity Commission’s findings were unfair

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2025

The Charity Commission must amend its report on Kids Company

Letter: This week’s judicial review should bring justice for the late charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh, write Chris Martin, Joanna Lumley, Joy Madeiros, Susie Orbach, Rowan Williams and Alan Yentob

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2025

Camila Batmanghelidjh remembered by Lemn Sissay

The poet tells of his relationship with the founder of Kids Company, who was the ‘embodiment of integrity’ in her work for children in need

The Guardian - UK · Dec 26, 2024

Parkinson’s community ‘felt left out in the cold’ – Rory Cellan-Jones

The former BBC News journalist announced in 2019 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2024

Therapy project yields ‘dramatic’ rise in Sats results at London school

Nurture programme devised by Camila Batmanghelidjh to be rolled out to more primary schools after pilot success

The Guardian - UK · Jan 22, 2024

Camila Batmanghelidjh’s mourners lay her to rest with a rite of colour and joy

Hundreds pay respects to Kids Company founder at defiant north London funeral and glowing wake in Waterloo church

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2024