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The London soul singer and Stormzy collaborator took a degree in finance in case the music didnt work out. She neednt have worried If the economics course at her sixth-form college hadnt been full, south London soul singer Debbie Ehirim might never have decided to study music. It was then that she realised her interest

'Ennui', the newly discovered undergraduate sonnet by Sylvia Plath (read it in full here), is very much about craft, about delivering a tough resonant argument. It is concerned with the art of rhetoric, densely and self-consciously built, full of literary references and brandishing its knowingness.

The mother of a British teenager who was mauled to death by lions was due to arrive in Zimbabwe yesterday to identify her son's body as details emerged of the horrific killing. David Pleydell-Bouverie, 19, was killed in the early hours of Sunday morning in Zimbabwe's remote Matusadona National Park when a pride of up

In Unveiled, a new HBO Max docuseries, the devastating story of abuse within a Mexican church is pushed into the spotlight Mere weeks before financier Jeffrey Epsteins private plane touched down in the New York area and the notorious pedophile was arrested on sex trafficking charges, Naasn Joaqun Garca disembarked from his own private jet

A countdown conundrum Happy New Year guzzlers. For a few years now, my early January ritual has been to solve the following puzzle: fill in the equation that counts down to the year that has just begun.