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Treasury urged to set out plan to ‘un-gum’ housing amid call to axe stamp duty

Sir Mel Stride likened Chancellor Rachel Reeves to Captain Mainwaring from Dad’s Army.

Evening Standard

Albert Herring review – ENO heralds new era with witty staging of Britten’s story of a mummy’s boy

English National Opera’s first shared production between London and Salford is a fluent and finely sung take on Britten’s 1947 comic opera. Antony McDonald’s lively staging gives the slender tale a sitcom feel

The Guardian - UK

Arthur Lowe on playing Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army

Arthur Lowe, who was known for forgetting his lines as Captain Mainwaring, on being the Dad's Army legend

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‘Don’t tell him, Pike!’ How Ian Lavender gave Dad’s Army its most adored moment

With his asthma troubles and his very warm scarf, the mummy’s boy soldier was Lavender’s greatest creation. But he also gave EastEnders one of its earliest gay characters, in a strong storyline about homophobia

The Guardian - UK

My, my! How Napoleon Bonaparte is still influencing pop culture more than 200 years after his death

In Ridley Scott’s 2023 epic, Joaquin Phoenix becomes the latest actor to portray Napoleon, joining an group that includes Marlon Brando, Danny DeVito and Rowan Atkinson. The tiny tyrant remains a subject of fascination (and mockery) on screen, writes Martin Chilton

The Independent UK

Toby Jones discovers his grandfather was shot in the face during Second World War

In tomorrow's Channel 4 documentary, My Grandparents’ War: Toby Jones, the Hollywood actor learns of the extraordinary things his late grandparents did during the Second World War

Daily Mirror

Frank Williams: Actor who played the dithering vicar in Dad’s Army

The character actor often found himself typecast in religious roles and was himself a lifelong Christian

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