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Torrential downpours and stormy gales forced bosses of the family festival at Lulworth Castle in Dorset to close the main arena on Sunday afternoon.

Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge is displaying the exhibition

The 83-year-old swapped the kitchen for the stage

We caught up with Steve Bugeja ahead of his Edinburgh Fringe show. What is your show about?  My show is about me being stuck on a 13 hour flight next to a drunk, loose lipped stranger. To make things worse at the start of the flight I receive a text from my girlfriend saying ... 'we need to talk'! This triggers 13 hours of me worrying myself senseless. The show is about overthinking. Can you overthink things? I don't think...

We caught up with Carl Donnelly ahead of his show at the Edinburgh Fringe festival What is your show about? It’s about my last ten years and how since starting comedy i’ve firmly joined the middle classes. It’s a very white middle class industry that in the last few years has finally started trying to progress and become more diverse. I find it funny that i’ve spent my life trying to escape the working classes just as it’s become something...

Commonly seen as a theatre of the absurd play, Exit the King (this is a new version by Patrick Marber) is one of four by Eugène Ionesco where the main protagonist Berenger is written as a kind of Every Person. Though Ionesco is a towering presence in the history of modern theatre, often grouped by critic and scholar Martin Esslin with writers like Sam Beckett and Jean Genet, this is the first time his work has ever been performed at...

Photographer Hugh Brown uncovered those exposed to the harshest and most dangerous ways of making a living

The photos taken over five days in June show Brits watching the World Cup and making most of the scorching weather in the capital.

It’s no secret that stand-up comedy is a tough gig. Knock backs, knock downs, it’s the epitome of the school of hard knocks. It takes years of working the competition circuit, honing your skills and developing your material, all the while hoping that one day you might get the break you deserve. And Billy Stephens has paid his dues. Having followed Stephens’ burgeoning comedy career for the past few years, TLE was delighted to hear that he has secured a...