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Don Everlys death at the age of 84 brings down the curtain on the Everly Brothers, the vocal duo that defined the rocknroll duet and the sound of adolescent angst. Their unmistakable harmonies drew on 700 years of Scottish Borders misery, taken via the Appalachians to express late 1950s teenage confusion. Revived on annual tours

Singer offers testimony in Penns defamation lawsuit against Empire co-creator Lee Daniels Madonna has denied she was struck by Sean Penn during the course of their marriage in the 1980s, as she offered evidence on Penns behalf for his defamation case against the co-creator of the TV show Empire.

In the ancient Scottish town of Stirling recriminations have begun over the collapse of Scotia Holdings, one of Britain's oldest biotechnology companies. Trading in Scotia's shares was suspended on Wednesday, after a three-year tailspin in the business's value from 550m to 16m. Within 24 hours, the firm's founder, David Horrobin, was pointing the finger of

Fellow students of Will Cornick, who was 15 when he murdered his Spanish teacher, did not believe he was serious about his plan to kill her A 15-year-old boy who stabbed his teacher to death asked a classmate to video the attack and told many other pupils what he planned beforehand, a court has heard.

Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin Doubleday 17.99, pp277 For a novelist, the love of your readers must be the hardest thing to live with. The sense of thousands or millions of fans tremulously waiting for your next adorable production has to act as a very strong disincentive to write it. Admiration or enthusiasm can