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‘I can’t waste this’: Michael Sheen on his riskiest role yet – saving Wales’s national theatre

When funding cuts closed National Theatre Wales, the actor saw it as an emergency, and set about building a replacement. As its first show comes to the stage, he explains his plan to bring big productions back to his homeland

The Guardian - UK

Britons Are Beginning To Admit It: Their Beloved National Health Service Is Broken

“Free” healthcare costs a lot in personal time and taxpayer money.

Reason

Nye at the National Theatre: 'Michael Sheen shines'

3/5 Michael Sheen plays the founder of the NHS in this fine, if patchy, crowd-pleaser

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Michael Sheen says NHS has been ‘integral’ to his life as he plays its founder

The actor also revealed he had to ‘put on a bit of weight’ to embody the role of Welsh Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying law would be implemented in ‘safe and practicable’ way, says PM

A committee of MPs has finished scrutinising the Bill, which will return to the Commons next month.

Evening Standard

Terminally ill criticise longer four-year timeframe for assisted dying service

The new implementation period is double what was originally proposed when the Bill was published last year.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying Bill safer, says MP but ‘chaotic’ scrutiny process criticised

Changes to the Bill include a provision for assisted dying to be provided on the NHS and expert panels replacing High Court judge approval.

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NHS will become national health and assisted suicide service, says MP

Danny Kruger said the NHS would, if the Bill being considered passes into law, become the ‘national health and assisted suicide service’.

Evening Standard

National Theatre invites NHS health workers to see Nye Bevan play for free

Hundreds of NHS workers can watch the play honouring the start of the health service

Evening Standard

London has been named Best City in Europe, and it's top for culture. There was never any question

The cultural offering in this city is second to none, it’s no surprise it keeps coming out on top

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend (March 15 – 17)

For anyone who isn’t celebrating the luck of the Irish this weekend, here’s everything else London has to offer

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Nye; The Lonely Londoners; Hadestown – review

Larkiness overtakes Tim Price’s hallucinatory new play about the founder of the NHS; Roy Williams’s adaptation of Sam Selvon’s great Windrush novel pulses with brio; and Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical squeezes into the West End

The Guardian - UK

Nye review – Michael Sheen looks back at the difficult birth of the NHS

Sheen stars as Aneurin Bevan in Tim Price’s drama, unfolding in flashbacks from a hospital bed

The Guardian - UK

National Margarita Day and more: Things to do in London this weekend (February 23 – 25)

From east London small plates to west end speakeasies, here is everything to eat, drink, see and do this weekend

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From Bong Joon-ho to Van Gogh: Observer critics’ culture highlights for 2024

From Withnail and I on stage to Olivia Rodrigo on tour, Sally Wainwright’s new drama to Blondie, Bruckner and Jez Butterworth, our experts guide you through the treats in store this year

The Independent UK

The best theatre to see in 2024: from Sarah Jessica Parker’s West End debut to Sarah Snook’s one-woman show

A-listers are treading the boards in force and your favourite films are being transformed for the stage. Jessie Thompson brings you our ultimate guide to what to see at the theatre in 2024

Daily Mirror

NHS' first hospital now - maternity cuts, A&E closure and people who fought to save it

Trafford General is known as the 'birthplace of the NHS' but 75 years on all hospitals are struggling amid the NHS crisis across the UK

Wales Online

A Great Western Railway train has been named in memory of Aneurin Bevan on the 75th anniversary of the NHS

The first baby to be born on the NHS, Aneira Thomas, unveiled the train in Newport on Tuesday amid celebrations of the NHS's 75th anniversary

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Manchester Evening News

The first NHS baby is 75 today

'It was there for me the day I was born and will be there for me when I leave this world'

Nottingham Post

'People take NHS for granted' says its first baby as health service turns 75

She said it was a 'national treasure'

Evening Standard

NHS turns 75: The history of the health service that changed the face of Britain

It has cared for thousands of us ‘from the cradle to the grave’ and pioneered world-changing medical advances. Daniel Keane looks at how the NHS began

Wales Online

First baby born on NHS says people take it for granted as it turns 75

She said it was a 'national treasure'

The Independent UK

People take the health service for granted – first NHS baby

Nye Thomas called for children to be taught about the NHS in schools.

Wales Online

What happened when you were sick before the NHS was created 75 years ago

The NHS was the first system of its kind in the world

The Independent UK

What happened before the health service? Your NHS questions answered

The new national service meant everybody could get treatment, whether they were a baker or a banker.

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