Minnie Stephenson , Culture Correspondent

The public flocked to the Irish town of Bray, where she lived for many years, to pay their own respects.

One of the joys of growing old is being able to unashamedly be yourself – but sadly that isn’t proving to be the case for many older LGBTQ+ people living in care. 

The Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey said he was “humbled” by the outcome of his trial, after he was cleared of sexually assaulting four men. 

Glamorous pink energy about a doll turned feminist icon… or a dark and disturbing drama about the man behind the atomic bomb.

The BBC presenter Huw Edwards is being treated in hospital, as his wife says he’s suffered another serious episode of depression after what she called “five extremely difficult days” for their family.

The BBC say a second person has made new claims of bullying about the high profile presenter at the centre of a row over alleged payments for sexually explicit images.

A letter from a lawyer representing a young person at the heart of allegations against an unnamed BBC presenter has described the claims, reported in the Sun newspaper as “rubbish”. The Sun, which based its report on claims by the young person’s parents – said they had seen evidence to support those concerns. The Metropolitan…

We spoke to musician Flohio ahead of her performance at this year’s Glastonbury.

Is it possible to live in the moment in the age of social media? As hundreds of thousands hit Glastonbury this weekend, can a 22-metre-high “rave tree”  break through to impress on the festival-goers the importance of climate change? Our culture correspondent Minnie Stephenson is among the revellers.

The sun has shone all day at Glastonbury. Two hundred thousand people have pitched their tents on – or near – the site for the four day event which is now in full swing.

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen tells of marriage, banquets and decadence of a wealthy British family.

As one third of band The xx, front woman Rommy achieved massive critical acclaim, with a Mercury Prize win and number 1 albums. 

French popstar Christine and the Queens is known for being a little Avant-garde and in his latest album the musician talks about angels, samples a seventeenth-century composer and collaborates with Madonna.

For some people, the eighties and nineties never really ended, and for those people – Shaun Ryder’s announcement of a new supergroup featuring him and Bez, plus Oasis bassist Andy Bell and The Who drummer Zak Starkey, will be a cause for nostalgia-tinged celebration.

India’s railway minister has said that the train crash in the state of Odisha was caused by an electronic signalling failure.