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1. Avenue Q review: An illicit, profane, puppet joy

   This Tony-winning legendary production revives at the Shaftesbury Theatre with hilarious offensiveness still intact

2. Top civil servant ousted after Foreign Office overruled Mandelson vetting

   Security officials initially denied Lord Mandelson clearance, but Foreign Office officials took the rare step of overruling the recommendation.

3. Stormont urged to address ‘catastrophe’ in hospital emergency departments

   A Royal College of Emergency Medicine report found the estimated number of deaths due to long waits has doubled in five years.

4. Balamory’s Miss Hoolie to read CBeebies Bedtime Story

   She will read People Need People by Benjamin Zephaniah.

5. Murderer Iain Packer likely committed further sex crimes abroad, says survivor

   One of Packer’s victims and a former detective both believe the killer of Emma Caldwell is responsible for other crimes abroad.

6. Government urged to ban concert ticket resale above face value ‘without delay’

   The recommendation came in a report following a review commissioned by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

7. Top Foreign Office civil servant to leave post after Starmer loses confidence

   Security officials initially denied Lord Mandelson clearance, but Foreign Office officials took the rare step of overruling the recommendation.

8. Crystal Palace: Oliver Glasner issues Adam Wharton and Maxence Lacroix injury updates as stars forced off

   Eagles could be without some key players for semi-final after attritional Fiorentina clash

9. Conference League semi-final dates in full: Crystal Palace set up Shakhtar clash as Strasbourg eye final berth

   And then there were four...

10. Video Games: Lana Del Rey releases James Bond computer game theme

    It comes after Del Rey revealed she had a Bond film theme rejected.