A Singapore animated film that took 10 years to make has achieved a historic milestone for local animation. The Violinist became the first Singapore-produced animated feature to win the Cristal Award for Best Feature Film at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, widely regarded as the world's biggest and most prestigious animation festival. The hand-drawn feature also won the SACEM Award for Best Original Soundtrack at the festival, held in Annecy, France, from Jun. 21 to 27. Co-dire

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New Ground housing development in High Barnet, north London, is not an old people’s home — it is Britain’s first all-female cohousing community for older people. Ten years ago, 26 women ranging in age from their early fifties to their mid-eighties moved into this three-storey brick block, which they had co-designed on the site of an old convent school tucked behind the local high street. They come from vastly different walks of life but are united by one radical idea: what if we didn’t have to g