The Latest Breaking News from Jane Birkin

From smoking to stealing and Serge Gainsbourg, Martha Alexander reveals the icon’s greatest soundbites over the years

We look back at 27 times Jane Birkin inspired our wardrobes

GOING to university can be life-enhancing — but it depends on the institution. Now the Government is to limit numbers at universities and colleges where too few students complete their course or obtain skilled or well-paying jobs within 15 months of graduation. In a year when many university lecturers have…

She was the Londoner known for being more French than the French, and the woman who cemented our obsession with all things Paris, says Marie-Claire Chappet

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The singer and actress was found dead at her home in Paris, according to French media

The London-born star, whose British accent and natural style charmed her adopted country of France, died on Sunday. Her fame rivals the Hermès luxury handbags named after her.

Government funding since the landmark Gonski education review has gone to the schools ‘least in need’; Carlos Alcaraz wins the Wimbledon title

In her collaborations with Serge Gainsbourg, Birkin left a permanent mark on pop – and her underrated solo albums of dark, strange songs are ripe for rediscovery

Birkin made a sensational impact in Blow-Up, and went on to become a classy performer for a number of major French directors – notably Godard and Agnès Varda

Best known for the sexually explicit 1969 hit Je t’aime … moi non plus, her adopted France took her to its heart