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FamilyShare your tips for dealing with children’s tantrums on car journeysWe’d like to hear how people successfully manage bored kids in the backseat on long trips in the car Long traffic jams, bickering siblings, extreme boredom – backseat temper tantrums have knocked the wheels off many a family holiday. Now a statistician, Dr James Hind, from Nottingham Trent University, has calculated the exact formula for predicting the chances, and timing, of children throwing a tantrum in the back of a car during a long journey. [Read More]

A$AP Rocky This article is more than 2 years old‘Great grandma went to the Met Gala’: woman identifies A$AP Rocky’s quiltThis article is more than 2 years oldQuilt-style cape worn by rapper and designed by Eli Russell Linnetz was based on great grandmother Mary’s design A quilt worn by the rapper A$AP Rocky to the Met Gala in New York this month turned out to have a heartwarming story. Attending the exclusive gala with the pop star Rihanna, A$AP Rocky wore a quilt-style cape designed by Eli Russell Linnetz. [Read More]

Royal Ascot 2019 This article is more than 4 years oldHayley Turner becomes first female jockey to win at Royal Ascot since 1987This article is more than 4 years old 33-1 shot Thanks Be takes Sandringham Stakes ‘In 10 years’ time the girls will be having winners more often’ “It was only a matter of time,” said Hayley Turner as she rode back in, triumphant at Royal Ascot for the first time in her long career and, astonishingly, the first female jockey to win here for 32 years. [Read More]

A life in ...Books'People of my generation liked Tarantino and Almodóvar – they weren't interested in the civil war'On my way to meet the writer Javier Cercas in Barcelona's bohemian Gràcia district, a cryptic poster in the Metro caught my eye: a silhouette of a moustached figure in a paramilitary cap, pointing a pistol. To any Spaniard the image is unmistakable, even without the legend "23-F". Drawn from TV footage inside the Spanish parliament – the Cortes – on 23 February 1981, it fixes the moment 30 years ago when Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero burst in with a band of civil guards, shooting plaster off the ceiling and taking some 350 MPs hostage in an abortive coup d'état. [Read More]

CultureKavanagh hangs up his wigLast night's TVWith the final demise of Kavanagh QC (ITV), can John Thaw expect to make many more reappearances as the gruff but sympathetic conscience of Middle England? The reinvention of Thaw via Inspector Morse has been one of the more memorable metamorphoses in TV history, erasing previous perceptions of him as the foul-mouthed, bare-knuckled star of Redcap or The Sweeney. With Kavanagh, a QC quaintly obsessed with using the incomplete and incomprehensible jigsaw of the law to obtain justice, it was as if Thaw was doing penance for 30 years of bent, brutal and bloody-minded TV coppers. [Read More]

US news This article is more than 14 years oldPolar cancer survivor dies 10 years onThis article is more than 14 years oldJerri Nielsen FitzGerald, whose self-treatment while stranded at south pole inspired book and TV movie, dies of cancer at 57An American doctor who treated herself for breast cancer while stranded at the south pole 10 years ago has died from the disease. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, whose one-woman battle against cancer was reported around the world, was the only doctor at the Amundsen-Scott south pole station in June 1999 when she found a lump on her breast. [Read More]

Readers recommendPop and rockNina Simone, Warren Zevon and Corb Lund are among the artists stuck in various states of mire for this week’s reader-curated playlist Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of suggestions on last week’s callout. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece. Sometimes, to extricate oneself from a sticky situation, it’s necessary to grasp the nettle and press boldly on without fear of let or hindrance. [Read More]

Put the gun down! Elmer Fudd in the Bugs Bunny Show, 1992. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock PhotoPut the gun down! Elmer Fudd in the Bugs Bunny Show, 1992. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock PhotoPass notesWarner BrosBugs Bunny’s enemies Fudd and Yosemite Sam have been stripped of their weapons in the relaunched Looney Tunes cartoon series. Good news for wabbits Name: Elmer Fudd. Age: 83. Appearance: Hunting gear, brown and red hat, double-barrelled shotgun. [Read More]

The ObserverUK news This article is more than 2 months oldNorfolk villagers and National Trust at loggerheads over ‘fairy bridge’ that appeared in the nightThis article is more than 2 months oldAn ad hoc crossing removed in a safety row has been mysteriously replaced Once upon a time, there was a bridge. Some say it was built by fairies. “It lasted about four or five weeks before the National Trust took it down in a dawn raid,” says Ian Curtis. [Read More]

TheatreObituaryRobin Phillips obituaryBritish actor and director acclaimed for revitalising the Stratford Festival theatre in OntarioRobin Phillips, who has died aged 75, was a golden boy of British theatre in the early part of his career but became, rather like John Neville, something of a king across the water as the most brilliant and successful artistic director of the Stratford Festival, Ontario, in the late 1970s. He revitalised the idyllic Festival theatre over six seasons with a company of young Canadian actors, led by estabished stars such as Maggie Smith, Brian Bedford, Richard Monette, William Hutt and Martha Henry; Smith appeared there, under his direction, as Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, Judith Bliss in Hay Fever and Rosalind in As You Like It. [Read More]