Buy a set of earplugs, maritime charity advises those hoping to sleep near Cornwall’s Longships Lighthouse

The distant sound of a lighthouse can be a part of coastal life that really adds to the maritime ambience.

For those living near Land’s End, however, any sense of whimsy has worn off. A fog alarm at Longships Lighthouse, just off the Cornish headland, has been going off every 13 seconds for the past week.

After more than 150 days without food, Laila Soueif says she will continue until there is some positive news from Cairo

Laila Soueif, lying in a hospital bed after refusing all food for 152 days in a bid to free her jailed son, agreed on Wednesday night to be put on a glucose drip, although it is only likely to delay her full collapse by days.

She said she had taken the step as part of a deal she had reached with her children that they would be allowed one chance to intervene before she collapses.

London-based FTSE 100 firm reviewing its policies, saying it is obliged to comply because US is its No 1 market

The British pharma company GSK has paused diversity activities for UK workers, claiming that it is obliged to do so in response to executive orders by the US president, Donald Trump.

The FTSE 100 company has also scrubbed references to “diversity” from its website. GSK is led by Emma Walmsley, one of the few women to head a FTSE 100 company.

Readers respond to Guardian analysis on how the arts sector is still a barrier for working-class people

Your article (Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn, 21 February) suggests that the higher percentage of privately educated people in leadership roles in the arts is due to a “rigged system” that shuts out working-class people, yet, despite highlighting the fall in students taking arts and humanities subjects, it fails to draw the obvious conclusion.

When provision of arts tuition in the state sector has almost disappeared, young people who are unable to pay for private tuition and whose schools don’t have art or drama departments are hugely disadvantaged from the outset if they wish for a career in the arts. How can children explore and gain confidence in their creative potential if they can’t test it in an art department, music room or on an assembly hall stage?