Australia newsPolice scour coast for clues as cocaine bricks keep washing up on NSW beachesAbout 213kg of suspected cocaine has been recovered from beaches including Newcastle, Avoca and Central Coast Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The mystery source of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine is yet to be found as bricks of the drug continue to wash up on New South Wales beaches and police scour the coastline for clues.

UK news This article is more than 1 month oldSara Sharif: three family members plead not guilty to 10-year-old’s murderThis article is more than 1 month oldGirl’s father Urfan Sharif, stepmother Beinash Batool and uncle Faisal Malik to go on trial next September Three members of Sara Sharif’s family have pleaded not guilty to her murder. The 10-year-old’s father, Urfan Sharif, her stepmother, Beinash Batool, and uncle Faisal Malik are accused of killing her.

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TheatreObituaryAubrey Woods obituaryGraceful stage actor who stood out in Doctor Who on TV and the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate FactoryIn a long and distinguished career, the actor Aubrey Woods, who has died aged 85, covered the waterfront, from West End revues and musicals to TV series and films, most notably, perhaps, singing The Candy Man in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), starring Gene Wilder, and playing the Controller in the Day of the Daleks storyline in Doctor Who (1972).

TheatreReviewTheatre Royal, Windsor Ian McKellen and Roger Allam star in a rambling but unabashed depiction of desire after middle-age Walking their dogs on Hampstead Heath, the widowed Frank (Roger Allam) and the blithely single Percy (Ian McKellen) hit it off, their pattering small-talk about hip ops and hearing aids getting bigger as they share confidences as well as umbrellas. That’s essentially all there is to Ben Weatherill’s two-hander, Frank and Percy, an undemanding, over-extended meander through a friendship that blossoms into romance.