Toby Jones, Zoe Wanamaker and Stephen Mangan will star in a new production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party to be staged next year to mark 60 years since its debut.

The famous Pinter play, which premiered to London audiences first in 1958, will be staged by Sonia Friedman Productions.

Hackney-born Pinter won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and died in Acton in 2008.

The Birthday Party is among his most critically-acclaimed plays, along with screenplays including The Go-Between and The French Lieutenant's Woman.

The production will be directed by Ian Rickson, who directed the late playwright in his last acting performance in Krapp's Last Tape.

Rickson said: "I knew Harold from when I ran the Royal Court and he was a great mentor to me.

"Doing The Birthday Party is particularly thrilling because as with the best first plays - like first albums and first novels - it has the intense DNA of the writer's inner life; their yearnings, their obsessions, their longings."

The play will celebrate its opening night on 18 January 2018 and will run at the Harold Pinter Theatre from earlier preview dates of 9 January to 14 April 2018.

Tickets are on sale from midday today.

No play is possible on day one of the Division One match between Middlesex and Hampshire because of wet conditions at Uxbridge.

Police are investigating after a "sum of money" was stolen from an abandoned flat in Grenfell Tower.

Trains are being delayed because of a fault with the signalling system near London Paddington.

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Islington in north London is the worst place to live in the UK if you are a woman, according to research for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

East Dunbartonshire is the best came out top when a number of factors, include some gender-specific measures, were analysed.

The National Centre for Social Research analysis factored in issues such as the gender pay gap and education.

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Two arrests have been made after a man was violently assaulted in Lewisham.

Eddy Mpundu, 39, has been in a critical condition since he was found with severe head injuries in Lewisham, south-east London, on 8 August.

The suspects, aged 19 and 20 were arrested on suspicion of GBH after separately handing themselves in to a south London police station on Monda.

Both men remain in custody.

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A 'monster' fatberg weighing 130 tonnes has been discovered in a sewer in Whitechapel.

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For most of us, it will be dry and bright today with less breeze than yesterday.

Maximum temperature: 18C (65F).

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