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Bernard Kops, who has died aged 97, was an East End-born playwright, poet and novelist whose first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green (1957), enjoyed worldwide success and saw him rated alongside Harold Pinter, Arnold Wesker, John Osborne and Shelagh Delaney as part of the late 1950s British new wave. Yet while he typically selected “realistic” domestic settings for his fiction, poetry, and plays, he rarely touched on political unrest or class prejudice; instead he often incorporated surrealistic ....
We have read and heard a lot about the sense of bewilderment, shock, profound sadness and - worst of all - fear felt by Britain s Jewish community in the last 50 days, Robert Hardman writes ....
Dame Vera Lynn, pictured, was an accomplished painter having completed more than 300 works of art that have been catalogued since her death at the age of 103. ....