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How melodrama became the theme running through the 2026 Perth Festival

Theatre academic Peter Brooks championed the rise of melodrama as a popular form replacing tragedy. Melodrama, he said, tends to be explicit and hyperbolic in its representation of emotional and moral values.

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Burns specialist who tried to set fire to colleague’s home is sentenced

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The Independent UK

Plastic surgeon jailed for trying to kill colleague during Covid lockdown

Burns specialist Peter Brooks cycled in camouflage through snow during Covid lockdown to stab Graeme Perks and douse his home in petrol, court told

The Independent UK

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Plastic surgeon who attempted to murder fellow doctor is jailed for life

Peter Brooks, 61, stabbed Graeme Perks and doused the ground floor of his home in petrol in the early hours of January 14 2021.

Evening Standard

Plastic surgeon jailed for life over attempted murder of fellow doctor

Peter Brooks, 61, doused petrol on floor of Graeme Perks’s Nottinghamshire home before stabbing him in abdomen

The Guardian - UK

The crucial CCTV that helped jail a plastic surgeon for trying to kill his colleague

This CCTV is the crucial footage that helped jail a plastic surgeon who attempted to murder a fellow doctor he wanted “out of the way” by stabbing him after a thwarted plan to set his house alight.

The Independent UK

Plastic surgeon found guilty of attempted murder of fellow doctor

Peter Brooks, 61, broke into Graeme Perks’ house, doused the floor in petrol and stabbed him in January 2021

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Judge criticises surgeon Peter Brooks’ ‘cynical’ trial-delaying tactics

A total of nine trial dates were set before Dr Peter Brooks was eventually convicted of attempting to murder Graeme Perks.

Evening Standard

Plastic surgeon guilty of attempting to murder fellow doctor he ‘hated’

Peter Brooks, 61, was convicted of attempting to kill a fellow plastic surgeon who gave evidence in his disciplinary proceedings.

The Independent UK

Plastic surgeon Peter Brooks found guilty of trying to kill colleague during Covid lockdown

Peter Brooks was ‘voluntarily absent’ from his month-long trial because he was on hunger strike

The Independent UK

Doctor ‘stabbed by fellow surgeon’ felt intestines bulging out, trial told

Graeme Perks told a court he has no recollection of seeing a crowbar before he was knifed in the abdomen by an intruder outside his home.

Evening Standard

Jim Becker, AP reporter who covered Jackie Robinson and an underdog Hawaii football team, dies at 98

Journalist Jim Becker has died at 98

The Independent UK

Millwall FC fans handed football ban after mocking deadly Leicester City helicopter crash

The father and son made gestures alluding to a 2018 helicopter crash that killed Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others

Evening Standard

Woolworths’ free naturopath consultations raise concerns among peak health bodies

Exclusive: experts fear the cost-of-living crisis is forcing people to forgo evidence-based healthcare

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The Paralympic classification system is unjust. It's time for an urgent overhaul

As the Paralympics has grown more popular, it has strayed from its fundamental purpose. Changes are needed to restore fairness for athletes with disability, dual Paralympic gold medal-winning cyclist Peter Brooks writes.

The Independent UK

Shot of Milky Way rising over Tudor ruins wins national park photography prize

The image, taken by Richard Murray from Waterlooville, Hampshire, captures the night-time scene at Cowdray ruins in Midhurst, West Sussex.

Evening Standard

Image of Milky Way rising over Tudor mansion scoops national park photography prize

The image captures a showstopping night-time scene at Cowdray ruins in Midhurst, West Sussex

Wales Online

Beautiful floral tributes laid after two people died in crash

A minute's silence was also held in neighbouring Murton, so that the local community could pay their respects

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