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Vase bought at charity shop for $3.99 sells for $107,000 at auction

Virginia woman says she saved the rare artwork from ‘obscurity’

The Independent UK

Vase woman buys for $3.99 at Virginia thrift shop sells for more than $100,000

Jessica Vincent, who bought the rare item at a Goodwill, said: ‘I had a sense that it might be a $1,000 or $2,000 piece’

The Guardian - US

Highgate house where Pink Floyd was formed available to rent for £12,000pcm

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett all lived at the house on Stanhope Gardens in the sixties

Evening Standard

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Rare Carlo Scarpa Venini vase found in a thrift store fetches over $100K at auction

Inside the story of Carlo Scarpa’s ‘Pennellate’ vase for Venetian glass brand Venini, which recently emerged from the most unlikely of places

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“I’m not going to say it’s a masterpiece, but it is a beautiful and a totally worthwhile entry in the Pink Floyd canon”: The highs and lows of Richard Wright’s limited solo work

One of the quietest ‘quiet ones’ in music released just two solo albums and one collaboration, preferring to go sailing instead – and it’s unlikely there’s more to be found

Louder

Home is where the art is: John Pawson Fulham flat filled with pieces by Turner Prize winners listed at £3.5m

Swiss artist Urs Fischer knocked through walls to create a live-in art installation in this house featuring murals by multiple Turner Prize winners

Evening Standard

Recorded between the gruelling Animals tour and the psycho-drama that was The Wall, the sentiments Richard Wright expressed in Wet Dream could apply to Pink Floyd as much as to his disintegrating marriage...

Richard Wright's Wet Dream album: The Pink Floyd keyboardist’s underrated solo debut remixed

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"A lot of people were saying that they didn’t even know this record existed": Steven Wilson says Richard Wright's reissued 1978 solo album Wet Dream is like "a long-lost 1970s Pink Floyd album"

Having remixed Richard Wright's debut solo album Wet Dream for reissue, Steven Wilson compares it to “a long-lost 1970s Pink Floyd album that you’ve never heard”

Louder

Vast Swatch auction includes collaborations with Keith Haring, Philip Glass and Vivienne Westwood

LAMA’s Swatch auction of artist Esther Montagner’s collection sees over 600 pieces go under the hammer

Wallpaper

“There has always been friction between me and Roger… I think, ‘Why do you have to say these things?’” Richard Wright’s personality clash with Pink Floyd colleague Roger Waters

Keyboardist's feud went as far back as refusing to give band leader a cigarette in their early days

Louder

James Trafford is the rising star with designs on being England’s No 1

From saving a Pep Guardiola penalty to four clean sheets this summer, the goalkeeper is showing his confidence and class

The Guardian - UK

Home support can be Malta’s 12th man against England – ex-player David Carabott

The 122-cap veteran has a contentious claim to being Malta’s only ever goalscorer against England.

The Independent UK

‘Congrats! You didn’t marry the wrong guy!’ 25 years of Sex and the City nailing life as a single woman

As one of TV’s most iconic shows reaches two and a half decades in age, it’s still a masterclass in female-led TV – even if it could have been less focused on privileged white women

The Guardian - UK

David Boyd jailed for murdering Nikki Allan, 7, 31 years ago

Sex offender Boyd had a “sinister purpose” when he lured little Nikki to a derelict warehouse, court told

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Seven-year-old Nikki Allan’s killer jailed for life over 1992 murder

David Boyd, 55, was found guilty earlier this month of killing Nikki in Sunderland in 1992.

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‘Dear Nigel Martyn…’: Rediscovering the childhood letters I wrote to footballers in the '90s

Matthew Ketchell sent dozens of letters to Premier League footballers in the 1990s – almost 30 years later he has unearthed the replies

The Independent UK

Sex offender neighbour guilty of murdering little girl after stabbing her 37 times

David Boyd had denied killing Nikki Allan, who was battered and stabbed and then dumped in a derelict dockside building in 1992

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Jawbone found on Umina Beach in 2020 could be linked to father-son drowning more than 80 years ago

An anthropologist's search through newspaper records reveals a human bone found on a Central Coast beach could be linked to a tragic double drowning more than 80 years ago.

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Seven-year-old ‘skipped to her death when she was lured to derelict building’

Scientific breakthroughs allowed experts to detect David Boyd’s DNA on Nikki Allan’s clothes, his murder trial has heard.

Louder

The story of The Great Gig In The Sky and the best £30 Pink Floyd ever spent

One of the highlights of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, Clare Torry's vocal on The Great Gig In The Sky lifted the song to celestial heights

The Guardian - UK

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent; The Shadows of London by Andrew Taylor; A Flaw in the Design by Nathan Oates; Mother’s Day by Abigail Burdess; The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

Evening Standard

Who is Roger Waters? Pink Floyd co-founder tries to keep German shows after antisemitism accusations

Frankfurt City Council has called off the singer’s May concert amid antisemitism allegations.

Tribune News Service

10 great books to read during Black History Month

These titles are great to read this month — and any month. Every month.

WEKU

Literature ambassador Jason Reynolds knows young people have a story of their own

NPR's A Martínez talks to writer Jason Reynolds, who is ending his term as the national ambassador for young people's literature. The Library of Congress appointed him to the post three years ago.

Chicago Tribune

Books for fall 2022: Our 65 titles for the season, histories, thrillers and horror, fiction and non. Get reading.

CHICAGO — You know how we don’t notice the leaves on the trees until September arrives, nature flips its switch and emeralds become purples, reds and golds? That’s not the worst metaphor for the new fall book season — the big season for publishers (eyeing awards and holiday sales), and…

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