MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long

LYING sixth in League Two and just a point off automatic promotion, the atmosphere at Gloucestershire Forest Green Rovers (FGR) is one of exhilaration. And it’s just got even headier.
The club have had plans for their new 5,000-capacity stadium finally approved by Stroud District Council, which is run by a politically innovative co-operative alliance of Labour, Green and LibDem after overcoming local Tories’ procrastinating opposition. Ominously, perhaps, an appeal against this decision is due to be heard next month.

MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray

Despite an over-sentimental narrative, MICHAL BONCZA applauds an ambitious drama about the Chinese rescue of British POWs in WWII

Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet

New releases from Hannah Rose Platt, Kemp Harris, and Spear Of Destiny