Cable car, unicycle, a 53-mile coastal bike ride… Meet five commuters who are that rare breed – workers who relish their commute

I cycle 53 miles to work, usually once or twice a week, and then take the bus home. It takes me about three hours. I live in San Francisco and work for a tech company in South Bay. I cycle with a group; we live in the same area and have a few meeting spots along the way.

The neo-soul artist, who has died aged 63, had years of experience by the time she became a star – and brought it to bear on a carnal, careworn catalogue

• News: soul singer Angie Stone dies in a car crash at 63

Angie Stone was no overnight success. By the time 2001’s Mahogany Soul made her a star, she’d logged two decades in the game, starting out in pioneering all-girl rap trio the Sequence, before passing through went-nowhere R&B groups like Devox and Vertical Hold and writing and singing with other artists (including D’Angelo, her former lover and father of their son, Michael). Once Clive Davis’s Arista Records signed her in 1999, those years of experience set her apart from the neo-soul pack, having worn a powerful grain into her rich, agile voice, and steeping her music in soul’s deep history.

Her debut for Arista, Black Diamond, retooled lush 70s soul for the new century: Green Grass Vapors – a love song to the sweet leaf with Stone “higher than the Thunder Dome” – was from the same funky swamp as D’Angelo’s Chicken Grease, its smouldering guitar like a moaning panther. A remarkable reading of Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man, meanwhile, mastered the track’s breathless, staccato chorus without breaking a sweat, channelling Gaye’s existential agonies with every holler to an oblivious lord.

Cryptocurrency slips into technical bear market as optimism after Donald Trump’s election win fades

Bitcoin has recorded its largest monthly loss since June 2022, pushing it into a bear market as the euphoria over cryptocurrencies after Donald Trump’s election win faded.

The price of bitcoin fell by 17.5% in February, the biggest monthly drop since June 2022, and its 11th worst month in the last decade, as negative sentiment gripped financial markets.

Sherman theatre, Cardiff
The remarkable true story of how the resident of a Cardiff institution and a student revolutionised supported living is told with agit-prop energy and via superb performances

Housemates – people banding together to share a living space. What could be more normal? Back in the 1970s, it wasn’t; or not for the 100,000 people deemed “sub-normal” and, under the feeble-minded (control) bill of 1912, segregated and put into institutions – often for life.

Two groups of young people challenged this situation: residents of one of those institutions, Cardiff’s Ely hospital, and students from the city’s university. Together, they brought about a revolution that resulted in the closure of about 90-plus institutions and the creation of a model of supported living that today is copied around the world.

Housemates is at the Sherman theatre, Cardiff, until 8 March, then touring at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre and the Torch theatre, Milford Haven

With Trump’s true intentions clear, new thinking is needed to fund UK defence, be it fully seizing Russian assets or reversing Hunt’s NI cuts

Principled political resignations are rare at Westminster, so Annaliese Dodds’s departure on Friday, over Labour’s cuts in aid to fund defence spending, was a significant moment.

In her powerful resignation letter, Dodds rightly highlighted the heavy costs of the cuts for some of the world’s poorest people, compounding the damage caused by the Trump administration shutting US aid projects.