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Real-life cold cases are pointlessly raked over by criminologists and for some reason the Silent Witness actor in a show that makes you feel like youre being spat on When the gulf between subject matter and approach is as wide as it is with In the Footsteps of Killers (Channel 4), it is

From his portraits of supermodels to suburban strangers, a democratic approach is key to the photographers work. He talks about capturing the ease and awkwardness of a situation and his new book on contemporary Britain

Almost everything is conspiring against Jean MacColl's campaign for justice, four years after her daughter, the singer-songwriter Kirsty, was mown down by a motorboat while diving in Mexico. The man who was convicted of wrongful killing, a young employee of a Mexican supermarket magnate, was probably not behind the wheel of the speedboat at the

The composer Peter Lieber- son, who has died aged 64 after treatment for leukaemia, cut one of the least likely but most artistically insistent figures among American modernists. Having studied under the masters of highly systemised atonality (Milton Babbitt and Charles Wuorinen), Lieberson made his reputation with his Piano Concerto No 1 in 1980, at

Forty people have drowned in the first three weeks of the summer holidays as residents seek respite from a cramped city In the middle of the afternoon almost every day of Senegals summer holidays, hundreds of young people descend on the beaches around the capital, Dakar, which sits on a peninsula jutting into the Atlantic.