内容摘要："My partner and I have been up to the doctor's surgery a few times, to try to get it [talking therapy] quicker. The GP has put in a referral [to see a human counsellor] but I haven't even had a letter off the mental health service where I live."

"My partner and I have been up to the doctor's surgery a few times, to try to get it [talking therapy] quicker. The GP has put in a referral [to see a human counsellor] but I haven't even had a letter off the mental health service where I live."

Austen was a 19th-century novelist who continues to have huge appeal today. Her six novels have sold millions of copies and have been turned into TV shows, films and even musicals.Her portrait was chosen to appear on the £10 note in

, in a nod to her literary legacy.Stevenson played Augusta Elton in a 1996 film adaptation of Austen's Emma, which starred Gwyneth Paltrow in the title role, and she has also recorded unabridged audiobooks of all of Austen's novels.Phillips has played Shazza in the Bridget Jones films. The first Bridget Jones novel, by Helen Fielding, is loosely based on the plot of Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

"Jane Austen [was] intensely interested in people - what makes them tick, what causes them to do what they do, how they interact with each other," Maggie O'Farrell, the patron of the Stratford Literary Festival, said in a statement.She added that Austen's work was "subtle and complex", which meant it was "constantly open to new interpretations" that could interest new generations of readers.

A hotel where John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent a holiday as newly-weds when The Beatles were top of the charts with their final number one before splitting up is in danger of being demolished.

The Beatles star and his wife stayed at the Georgian Grade II listed Corbett Arms in the seaside town of Tywyn, Gwynedd, in the summer of 1969 during a turbulent time in the band's historyPeskov said on Monday that Russia was "truly grateful" to the Americans and "personally to President Trump" for their help in organising and launching this negotiation process.

Last week, Trump and Putin had a two-hour phone call to discuss a US-proposed ceasefire deal to halt the fighting.The US president said he believed the call had gone "very well", adding that Russia and Ukraine would "immediately start" negotiations toward a ceasefire and "an end to the war".

Ukraine has publicly agreed to a 30-day ceasefire but Putin has only said Russia will work with Ukraine to craft a "memorandum" on a "possible future peace" - a move described by Kyiv and its European allies as delaying tactics.The first direct Ukrainian-Russian talks since 2022 were held on 16 May in Istanbul, Turkey.