The singer-songwriter’s atmospheric memoir reveals many musical adventures and doesn’t shy away from exploring her challenging times

When a heavily pregnant Neneh Cherry appeared on Top of the Pops in 1988 in a Lycra miniskirt, gold bra top and matching bomber jacket to perform Buffalo Stance, the nation’s jaws hit the floor. In her memoir, Cherry says she couldn’t see what the fuss was about at the time, though now “I can see that it was important to be able to appear on the show, pregnant and proud … Change comes about partly through our choices being seen.”

A Thousand Threads traces Cherry’s early life as the child of a Swedish mother, Moki, an artist and textile designer, who lived in a converted schoolhouse; a Sierra Leonian father, Ahmadu, from whom Moki split when their daughter was three months old; and stepfather Don Cherry, the African American jazz trumpeter and the man she called Dad. “I had three parents,” Cherry recalls. “I guess that’s what we call a gift.”

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Dame Sally Davies says action on deadly antibiotic-resistant infections must be prioritised

The rising death toll from drug-resistant bugs is “very scary” and people do not even realise it is happening, the UK’s special envoy for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has said.

Superbugs kill more than a million people each year but neither governments nor the public recognise the scale of the threat, doctors complain. The crisis is largely driven by the misuse of antibiotics – about 70% of which are given to livestock – which encourages the evolution of microbes too strong for modern medicine to handle.

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Yellow warnings issued from Sunday evening to Tuesday, with possibility of power cuts and transport delays

A yellow weather warning has been issued for snow and ice across parts of Scotland and the north of England.

Up to 20cm of snow is possible on higher ground on Monday and Tuesday, and there is a small chance of up to 10cm of snow settling at lower levels, which could prove disruptive, the Met Office said.

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As east London entrepreneurs Manny and Abdul try to get rich, Daniel Bailey’s energetic production bounces around but lacks any dramatic conflict

Can tales from the crypto make for effective theatre? Bitcoin Boi explored the subject through song last year, while A Very Crypto Christmas offered an absurdist take in 2022. But any suspense can feel abstract when the characters are engaged in that most un-theatrical of pursuits: squinting at screens.

In Wolves on Road, House of Ife writer Beru Tessema has the wisdom to make 21-year-old east London entrepreneurs Manny (Kieran Taylor-Ford) and Abdul (Hassan Najib) proper little Duracell bunnies. Manny lives with his mother, Fevan (Alma Eno), and is hyperactively hawking knock-off designer goods when Abdul, a “cryptovangelist”, offers him a way out. “My portfolio’s fuckin’ mooned,” he brags, and soon Manny is throwing everything at this moonshot, too. “I think your son just made £10,000,” marvels Fevan’s boyfriend Markos (Ery Nzaramba). But what goes up must come down …

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• Sheffield Eagles coach suspended until April 2026
• Punished for ‘flouting rules’ over player head injuries

The Rugby Football League is facing a potential revolt after a number of high-profile professional rugby league coaches signed a letter calling for the Sheffield coach Mark Aston to be allowed an independent appeal against his 18-month ban for a breach of head injury protocol.

Aston, who has been involved with the Eagles for almost 40 years as player and coach and was man of the match in their 1998 Challenge Cup final win against Wigan, has been told he will be suspended until April 2026 after a tribunal determined he “deliberately flouted the rules” on head injuries earlier this year.

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Vertical’s crash and cash crisis highlight challenge of making flying taxis a reality after nearly a century of efforts

On a dreary November day in the Cotswolds, England, the VX4 – a cross between a plane and a helicopter – rose from an airport runway, hovered a few feet off the ground and set back down.

It might not have reached a heady altitude, but for its British owner, Vertical Aerospace, it was a crucial moment. The company, which has received millions of pounds in UK taxpayer support , is running short of cash.

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TV presenter says colloid cyst was found during a check-up she was given as part of her menopause work

Davina McCall has said she is to undergo brain surgery after being diagnosed with a “very rare” tumour.

The TV presenter, 57, said the benign brain tumour, known as a colloid cyst, was found after she was offered a health check-up as part of her menopause advocacy work.

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Archaeologist Alan Endacott says area may have been site of henge monument similar to ‘earlier phase of Stonehenge’

Two neolithic stone circles have been discovered on Dartmoor, adding credibility to the theory that a “sacred arc” of monuments was built in the heart of the wild Devon uplands.

One of the circles appears to have similar features to Stonehenge while the second sits slightly outside the sweep of the arc and could have served as a gateway used by pilgrims to the area.

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• Player guilty of providing inside information on match
• Other charges relating to separate incident dismissed

Mark King has been banned from snooker for five years after being found guilty of match fixing.

An independent disciplinary committee found the 50-year-old Englishman guilty of one count of match fixing and one count of providing inside information on a match. The former Northern Ireland Open champion was suspended by the sport’s world governing body, the WPBSA, in March 2023 after suspicious betting was reported on his match with Joe Perry in the previous month’s Welsh Open.

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