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The UK’s hottest hip-hop star missed the launch of his debut album when he returned to jail for the 15th time. There’s more to him than his troubled past

Vegan Tendril has put down roots in meaty Mayfair and is doing smart things with great produce

Leak suggests the oil and gas tycoon and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova amassed one of the most significant collections of modern art in private hands

As I leave the post, I look back on how cinema has changed since 2013 and, below, pick a favourite movie from each year of my tenure – as well as a turkey

As Smithfield meat market gets ready to close, a superb new meat-led restaurant opens up its doors

“If the novelists P.G. Wodehouse, Jackie Collins and Naguib Mahfouz had been asked to pool their creative talents, they would have struggled to invent a character as bold and controversial as Mohamed Al Fayed,” said Andrew Anthony in The Observer.

The news is out, but how did the producers finally coax the one-time acting wannabe turned current affairs heavyweight onto Strictly Come Dancing? And will he embarrass his children?

The still-startling sonics of Jeff Tweedy and his Chicago survivors keeps them sharp-edged as they return to their Americana roots

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.

When Paula Rego was asked to paint a mural for the dining room of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing in 1990, it “seemed a thoughtless insult”, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. The artist, who died last year aged 87, was renowned for focusing on the kinds of people normally…