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Back painBack pain has become rife in lockdown. But that’s not the only reason chiropractors are being hailed as YouTube influencers – there’s a horror movie thrill, too The man in a waistcoat and jeans stands over a woman who lies face-down on a vinyl bed. He is all hairy arms, and she a mop of dip-dyed hair. He presses one palm on her back; with the other he cups the side of her head and sharply thrusts.

Paul McCartney This article is more than 4 months oldSearch launched for Paul McCartney’s first Höfner bass guitarThis article is more than 4 months oldGerman manufacturer’s The Lost Bass Project hunts for Beatle star’s ‘favourite’ instrument In the years leading up to Beatlemania, Paul McCartney bought his “favourite” Höfner electric bass guitar for a mere £30 in Hamburg’s Steinway Musikhaus. Now, the German instrument manufacturer has launched a search – named The Lost Bass Project – inviting anyone to share information about the guitar’s whereabouts, last seen before the band broke up more than 50 years ago.

MissouriSix people missing in Missouri in clutches of online cult, police sayFamily members believed loved ones are followers of group founded by Rashad Jamal, a convicted child molester Six people – including two children – who disappeared from their homes in eastern Missouri last summer are believed to be in the clutches of an eccentric online cult run by a convicted child molester, police say. Family members of those missing are also convinced their loved ones are followers of a group founded by Rashad Jamal, a rapper and self-styled new age prophet serving an 18-year sentence in Georgia after his conviction in August.

From strange deaths to blood transfusions and dubious fish-related practices, it's time to debunk the tallest tales 1: 'Mama' Cass choking on a sandwich When 'Mama' Cass Elliot died in her London flat in 1974 at the age of 32, a hasty postmortem suggested she had choked on her own vomit while chomping a sandwich in bed. At 5' 5" and 240 pounds, it was easy to believe that - like a female version of Monty Python's Mr Creosote - Elliot had simply gambled on one mouthful too many.

An island guide to TobagoBeach holidaysTop 10 beaches in TobagoTobago has more than its fair share of idyllic Caribbean beaches and clear blue waters. We seek out the very bestPigeon PointStretching for miles, this narrow, white-sand beach, fringed by small trees, hugs clear, blue waters. Pigeon Point Road is lined with fishing huts – some converted into restaurants – and stalls selling trinkets (calabashes and the like). Further along the peninsula there is a beach facility with cabanas, bars and a restaurant.

Theatre This article is more than 10 months oldAn anonymous, pro-Brexit play about Dominic Cummings? Classic Dom!This article is more than 10 months oldMark LawsonPartially based on verbatim texts from Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, a new play which lists no dramatist veers from Ted talk to pantomime At this play about Dominic Cummings, the notoriously shortsighted north-east explorer, the audience played a Westminster equivalent of Where’s Wally? as a rumour circulated that the subject’s vision had sufficed for him to reach the venue.

FilmReview(Cert 12A)· Check out a clip from Be Kind Rewind If you can imagine a movie-maker who sustained a career while never leaving his teenage bedroom - putting each completed film outside the door on a breakfast tray for his mum to collect on her way down to the kitchen - then you can imagine the work of Michael Gondry. His films have a wacky homemade aesthetic, a cheerful make-do-and-mend look, often introverted, bordering occasionally on something which is, to quote one character's harshly non-PC remark in an earlier film, "

The ObserverMarks & Spencer This article is more than 2 years oldThis article is more than 2 years oldM&S and Aldi are at loggerheads over a cake. What’s at stake and what’s behind Britain’s love affair with the confection? Colin the Caterpillar first darkened M&S’s shelves in the autumn of 1990, mere weeks before Margaret Thatcher stood down as prime minister. It’s too simple to put the timing down to coincidence.

1000 films to see before you dieFilmFilms beginning with OOcean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001) Monumentally enjoyable Vegas caper, based on the Rat Pack movie of the same name. Director Soderbergh basks in kitsch inconsequentiality, flipping out high-stakes action sequences, urbane camaraderie and spring-loaded romantic exchanges like poker chips. Brad Pitt's sunkissed Rusty Ryan seems particularly at home. Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, 1947) Reed's imaginary Belfast in Odd Man Out is as phantasmagoric and filled with menace and edgy comedy as John Ford's Dublin in The Informer.