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The Wire Re-up - the book is out now. Click here to buy it The Guardian's episode-by-episode blog on The Wire, plus many of the paper's interviews with the cast and features on the show, is going to be published in book form this autumn. Blogposts for all five seasons will feature as well

Rescuers had to abandon attempt at freeing man due to safety concerns over using torches to cut through steel plating A man was trapped inside a steel-reinforced concrete jewelry vault in New York City overnight after firefighters had to abandon an attempt to rescue him for safety reasons. Fortunately, the vault was on a timer

Retailer removes Robert Picktons book from sale after manuscript smuggled out of prison was released through a self-publishing service, to the distress of his victims families A memoir reportedly written by Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton and smuggled out of prison by another inmate has been withdrawn from sale on Amazon within hours of appearing

Comedian lays into victimhood, Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband during his new standup show, saying she hurt him way more than he hurt me Chris Rock has spoken at length for the first time about being slapped by Will Smith during the Oscars, almost a year since the scandal that shocked millions watching around

My mother Pam Baker, who has died of cancer aged 79, was a remarkable woman. Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in 1936 she travelled, as a nine-year-old, with her parents to Singapore, where her father was Britain's comptroller of patents and trademarks for the far east. In 1942 she and her mother escaped the Japanese invasion