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The Vaults, London Slapdash daftness propels Sleeping Trees glam mashup of a Christmas show, though more risk-taking would summon the magic to really fly Sleeping Trees are known for their Christmas fairytale mashups, loose-fitting family shows that splice Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and the like. This year, theyre doing something similar for adult audiences. Peter

This museum in a bleak outpost has one of the worlds greatest collections of avant-garde art, rescued from Stalins clutches by an electrician. But now it needs a rescue of its own I am sitting at a huge table at the Ministry of Culture in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, as officials explain what sounds like a wonderful

Paul Tattam calls for a good-humoured national debate about the future of the union, and Iain Forbes says the problem is many English people dont seem to care about it. Plus letters from John Skrine and Michael Cunningham

Unverified footage from state media shows captured soldiers swearing allegiance to Russia as part of new battalion Russia is sending Ukrainian prisoners of war to the frontlines of their homeland to fight on Moscows side in the war, the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti has reported.

A semi-autobiographical novel of trauma and addiction offers hope for narrator, author and reader That the narrator and author of this Florida-set debut share a name is no coincidence. This is raw, semi-autobiographical fiction at its most painfully honest, which could only have been written from actual experience of a teenage descent into addiction, criminality