Culture desk Artists awarded grants to in last 2025 funding round ArtHouse Jersey says 2025 saw £55,000 being allocated to local artists. January 3, 2026
Books & Fiction Monster or victim?: The fascination of Hedda Gabler, the ‘female Hamlet’ who divides opinion An unhappy bride plotting others' downfalls, 19th-Century anti-heroine Hedda Gabler is one of the great roles for women – and as new film Hedda... January 3, 2026
Books & Fiction ‘I took up poetry to help deal with anxiety’ Steven Beattie, who works at the Royal Stoke Hospital, is to be Stoke-on-Trent's next poet laureate. January 3, 2026
Culture desk Actor Timothy West ‘died peacefully’ after hospital stay The Bradford-born actor had been receiving palliative care after suffering a head injury in a fall. January 2, 2026
Culture desk The Traitors returns with new ‘secret traitor’ in major shake-up Not even the viewers know who host Claudia Winkleman has assigned as the fourth "secret traitor". January 1, 2026
Books & Fiction George Orwell classics Animal Farm and 1984 translated into Welsh Animal Farm and 1984 will both be published in Welsh for the first time. January 1, 2026
Books & Fiction Cambridge library exhibition ‘lets children see themselves’ An exhibition shows how black people are represented in British children's literature. January 1, 2026