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Mum complains to council about size of her tiny London flat - so is offered home 200 miles away in Manchester

Naima Bazizi pays £800 a month for her compact two-room flat

Manchester Evening News

In capturing the changing face of Britain, playwrights can explain us to ourselves

Beth Steel’s The House of Shades unites national politics and private lives through the fortunes of a working-class family from 1965 to 2019

The Guardian - UK

House of Shades at the Almeida review: A confused mix of family drama and political screed

A layered, expressive lead performance from Anne-Marie Duff can’t save this baggy production

Evening Standard

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Top 10 novels about neighbours

From commune-dwellers to lodgers in miniature, the people we live alongside make intriguing subjects for fiction

The Guardian - UK

"Grace & Frankie" reunites "9 to 5" cast

Grace and Frankie are reminded by an old friend that "the tide's gonna turn, and it's all gonna roll your way"

Salon

'Macron forced me to become more political': a tale of two Yellow Vests

Nathalie and Agnès joined France's anti-government Yellow Vest protests from the outset in November 2018. Sixty weeks of sometimes violent demonstrations failed to topple the President, but Emmanuel Macron inadvertently made them more politically aware, and they're now using that to vote him out of office.

Radio France Internationale

The crisis of unintended pregnancy

Mother and daughter, Liza and Agnes, living in a small seaside community of St Bernard in the Philippines, recalled the day Super Typhoon Rai made landfall. When I visited them, they told me that when the typhoon hit, the wind sounded like a thousand horses thundering through the community and…

Bangkok Post

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Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart review – another weepy from a writer on a roll

The Booker winner’s follow-up to Shuggie Bain – a similarly stirring tale of precarious lives on a Glasgow council estate – proves his debut was no fluke

The Guardian - UK

Lanarkshire care home's trishaw project is officially launched as locals go for a spin

They want to create an intergenerational community scheme

Daily Record

Lanarkshire great-grandmother celebrates 100th birthday with family

Sarah Hamilton hit the big milestone on February 12

Daily Record

Review: How HBO's dreary 'Gilded Age' fails the tumultuous era it depicts

In HBO's "The Gilded Age," Julian "Downton Abbey" Fellowes transfers his interest in rich people and the people who serve them from early 20th-century England to late 19th-century New York. Once again, it's an upstairs-downstairs, extravagantly dressed soap opera set against a background of social change, as a self-styled aristocracy…

Los Angeles Times

White on White by Ayşegül Savaş review – storytelling at a chilly remove

A nameless student listens to her landlady’s embittered life story in a spare, oddly enthralling novel indebted to Rachel Cusk’s Outline

The Guardian - UK

Pregnant teen wants to name twins she's giving up but adopting couple hate her choices

A 15-year-old girl who is giving up her newborn twins for adoption has insisted she be allowed to name them Walter and Agnes. But their soon-to-be legal mum thinks the names are "outdated" and wants to call them Ellie or Evan, she told Reddit

Daily Mirror

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