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As Mark Pearce’s death highlights issue of unwelcome noise, Guardian readers share stories and an expert offers advice

Sorry Larries.

This is a common parenting dilemma, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Find a way to hear your daughters without turning this into a proxy-fight

Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost feels quite ghostly itself, doomed to walk the earth through its many adaptations. There have been at least 14 television versions, the most recent in 2021, and it has not been long since cinemagoers encountered director Yann Samuell’s French-Belgian version, Le Fantôme de Canterville (2016).

Sally wanted to die on her own terms. But despite voluntary assisted dying being legal in Victoria, her advocates say a Catholic palliative care facility obstructed access

You’re not just being mean, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. You’ve just noticed the relationship isn’t strong enough to bear the weight that’s put on it

The starman weaves in and out of the narrative like a spectral presence

Many students gathered today to protest against the ongoing marking boycott and receiving 'empty degrees' at the University of Edinburgh

The Paralympian gold medallist and Strictly Come Dancing star has revealed for the first time that she was adopted after her birth mother couldn't cope with her disability

She has revealed the emotional reunion for a new documentary

Paralympic swimming star Ellie Simmonds has been reunited with her birth mother after revealing she was adopted at three months old