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Five-star sushi in a Bond villain’s lair

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Endo 101 Wood Lane, London Rating: You reach Endo by its private lift, whisked up in velvety silence like a minor Bond baddie on the way to his fate. Once inside the rotunda, ‘a stand-alone cylindrical space resting on the top of the BBC helios building’, you enter a world of exquisite hyperbole. Above, billowing … Read more

There’s the right red for every one of us, says YOU’s beauty director Edwina Ings-Chambers

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For me, and surely most women, there are no two words more possessed with the promise of glamour than ‘red lipstick’. Perhaps it’s all the Saturdays I spent watching old movies – that double matinee slot on BBC Two, several hours’ worth of classic Hollywood – that set me up big time. For no celluloid … Read more

Jonathan Agnew: How we stopped cancer killing our marriage

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Jonathan Agnew, pictured with his wife Emma, left, thought it was ‘curtains’ when she told him she had been diagnosed with cancer They are the words that everybody dreads. Yet when, in summer 2016, Emma Agnew was told she had an aggressive form of breast cancer, it was her husband Jonathan, the voice of BBC … Read more

Lesley Manville reveals how an Oscar nomination finally made her name in Hollywood at 63

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‘I can’t believe this late flourish that I’m having,’ says Lesley Manville, beaming with happiness. ‘It just keeps on giving!’ She’s about to star in the third and final series of the brilliant BBC comedy Mum, playing the kind and loving widow Cathy, surrounded by a family of not-always-lovable fools, and slowly falling for her … Read more