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From visiting places associated with favourite books to travelling with multiple generations- these are the top trends likely to shape travel in 2026.

A single act of kindness reminded me that, despite so much evidence to the contrary, the better angels of our nature are not necessarily doomed, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Anaconda actor Paul Rudd lied about starring in a Shakespeare production directed by Sir Ben Kingsley at the start of his career.

Shakespeare fans will have to pay to enter the courtyard for the first time

The actor has said she is increasingly facing problems with her memory as well as failing eyesight, struggling to remember appointments or see faces

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Oscar winner describes her degenerative eye condition as a ‘crusher’

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing…

Lately, life feels a bit too serious, doesn’t it?Bills, work, deadlines, errands, decisions - it all piles up faster than we’d like. So here’s a little break from all that: a quiz made entirely of strange, useless, and wonderfully pointless facts. From Shakespeare’s dad’s odd job to the speed of…