Wallace and Gromit in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email As Google marks the 20th anniversary of the first Wallace and Gromit appearance, we look back at the duo's adventures Tue 18 Nov 2008 14.39 GMT First published on Tue 18 Nov 2008 14.39 GMT Wallace and Gromit appear on the Google homepage to mark 20 years since the cartoon pair's first public appearance - at an animation festival in Bristol Photograph: Public Domain Read More...
BangladeshObituaryGeneral Hussain Muhammad Ershad obituaryArmy officer and politician who seized power in Bangladesh in a bloodless coup in 1982 and declared himself presidentAs dictators go, Hussain Muhammad Ershad was not an outright brute. Bangladesh, under his rule, was not a land of mass terror, imprisonment and execution. It was, rather, a country where cynicism and despair were almost palpable. Where corruption reached into every corner and a fragile body politic was shrivelled. Read More...
FilmReviewSecrets are revealed as Richardson’s matriarch turns out not to be just a simple farmer’s wife when protecting her family
This story is set in a farmhouse in present-day Britain, but its occupants – hypercompetent Mama (Joely Richardson), ailing Pa (Roger Ajogbe) and teenage daughter Maisy (Sadie Soverall) – live like they’re in the 1950s, with no mobile phones or landline, no TV and certainly no internet. Nevertheless, they seem content enough even if Mama is a bit overprotective of Maisy. Read More...