In an interview for Desert Island Discs, the veteran actress said actors are not taught to project any more and revealed that all but one of her leading men have had 'glorious senses of humour'.

Meet young Jane Tennison - gauche, 22, and fighting crime and prejudice on the mean streets of the Seventies. the writer reveals why she's resurrected her most famous female copper.

The Bank of England has warned that British people are hording up to £3billion in cash, with much of that currency hidden down the back of sofas or squirreled away under a mattress with an average of £345 per household.

Alisha Poyser, 16, helped treat an 11-year-old fellow pupil after he suffered a serious head injury at school. The Emergency First Aid Bill will make lessons mandatory in state secondary schools.

A week on from Jeremy Corbyn's coronation, one thing is brutally clear. His choice as Labour leader was a disaster for Labour and for the country. Labour is now unelectable.

New Labour Party leaders Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell were last night sensationally accused of risking inciting terrorist and anti-Semitic attacks by Sadiq Khan, Labour's candidate for Mayor.

Jeremy Corbyn has recently refused to sing the National Anthem and had to be dragged kicking and screaming to commit to wearing a red poppy on Remembrance Day, writes Simon Danczuk.

Jeremy Corbyn once laid a wreath dedicated to alleged victims of police violence at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day. The MP was branded a 'disgrace to Parliament' over the tribute.

The Duchess of York, 55, seemed perfectly happy to flaunt her romance with dashing entrepreneur Manuel Fernandez, 47, on Saturday afternoon at Sir Bob Geldof's wedding.

The Prince of Wales is increasingly taking centre stage alongside his mother. But Prince William, who works full-time as an air ambulance pilot, wants to carry on with a 'normal' life for as long as possible.

Princess Anne is due to tour HMP Stafford in Staffordshire next month in her capacity as the patron of prisoner rehabilitation charity The Butler Trust, Buckingham Palace confirmed last night.

It's finally back - the world-famous period drams that is due to come to a dramatic conclusion this year. And now is your chance to find out exactly how much you know about Downton.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Kimber had to fly back to Britain from Majorca alone, because his elderly mother Shirley was too ill to take a commercial flight even though she had a seat booked.

The incident happened on Bacup Road in Rossendale, Lancashire. The girl was hit by a white Audi A5. She was airlifted to Royal Blackburn Hospital, where she later died from her injuries.

Mr Wonnacott, 62, has been suspended from the BBC1 show for more than a week after a confrontation. It has now been claimed the punishment was sparked by bullying claims.

The decision means the farm worker - who wants to remain anonymous - will lose £5,000 in earnings. Critics say it is the latest stand-down by the authorities over the cull.

Just over a week ago, I gave a talk at the annual fundraising lunch held in Leeds by the United Jewish Israel Appeal. I told the (supremely well-groomed) room of 100 women that I am a failure.

The 56-year-old was on his way home to Crewe, Cheshire, after watching the 35-11 victory over Fiji when he fell in front of a slow-moving train pulling in to Platform 3 of Twickenham Station.

There's a new generation of healthy sounding snack bars on the shelves. But are they really as good for you as they claim to be? Nutritionist ZOE HARCOMBE gives her verdict...

I cook the way I have always cooked - with greedy impatience and without heed to dietary pieties. I still vigorously resist the sanctifying of some foodstuffs and the demonising of others.

In a disturbing act described as 'pure evil' by Karen's father, Alexander Pacteau, pictured, lured Karen to his car on a night out in April and then bludgeoned her to death in Glasgow.

Jan Tshabalala and his wife Julia had a festive Christmas dinner with their two disabled children a day early at their home in Billingshurst, West Sussex, last year. Hours later, they were both dead.

Imran Khan, from Blackburn, has been given a parking fine for blocking his own driveway by two centimetres. He left his car parked outside his house when he went to meet his brother.

Worried parents are spending hundreds of pounds getting their toddlers vaccinated against a devastating type of meningitis, because they cannot get the jab on the NHS.

Much-loved Irish comedian of the 70s Jimmy Cricket has been awarded a papal knighthood. The 69-year-old entertainer was bestowed the honour for services to charity.

Police were called to assist the situation as the plane was parked up at Gatwick Airport on Thursday night, and the women were led off the aircraft.

The U-boat 110 was engaging a convoy of merchant vessels off the north east coast of England on July 19, 1918 when she was spotted and forced to the surface by Allied depth charges.

Robbie Clark, one of the few UK soldiers to have survived Hitler's 1,000-mile death march, is surviving on charity handouts at his home in Burnt Oak, London, where he has lived for 50 years.

Mr Umunna - who was seen as a Labour leader frontrunner until he quit the race days after throwing his hat into the ring - said he 'wouldn't dismiss' the idea that Britain could be faced with social unrest.

Jeremy Corbyn performed a humiliating U-turn over Europe last night, pledging to campaign to stay in the EU - as a means to impose punitive taxes on the City of London.

Convicted arsonist Mike Watson, pictured, and MP Ian Lavery, who was convicted of football hooliganism in the 1980s, have been handed key positions by Jeremy Corbyn.

Strolling near his London home holding a copy of the Daily Mail, the 64-year-old reclusive bass player looked a far cry from the flamboyantly-dressed figure who rose to fame with a band in the 1970s.

Daniel Medforth, pictured, from Withernsea in East Yorkshire, took the pills 'for a laugh' but fell ill because of the overdose and confessed to his 'shocked' wife and called an ambulance.

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Church minister, Howard Curtis, 72, used the Bible to justify spanking vulnerable women on their 'bare bottoms' for his own sexual desires, Croydon Crown Court heard today.

The number of joint replacement operations carried out annually on obese patients has increased fourfold since 2009. Hip replacements now cost the NHS about £1 billion a year.

The fourth lunar eclipse in just two years - each creating a red-colored 'blood moon' - will take place on September 28, and each one has taken place on a Jewish holy day.

You might expect most of us to be fairly taciturn about what goes on inside our bedrooms. But it seems we're even less forthcoming about what goes on inside our bank accounts.

Number 15A Kensington Palace Gardens, on the road dubbed Billionaires Row, was made available by the Crown Estate after a luxury makeover. The property is said to have been discreetly marketed.

Civil engineering graduate Husham Alzubair, 22, dreamed of meeting up with his brother, Husam, in Birmingham to start a new life away from the political turmoil in his homeland.

Aldi's Specially Selected Ethiopian Coffee, pictured, priced at £1.79 for a 200g pack, was both the cheapest and tastiest of 16 ground beans sampled by experts on behalf of consumer group Which?

Cameron Brown was sentenced to life without parole today for murdering Lauren Key. He threw her off a 120ft cliff because he didn't want to pay her mother $1,000 a month in child support.

A court heard retired farmer Frederick Robinson, 92, mowed down a woman and her rescue dog as they walked across a pedestrian crossing on the A52 in Brailsford, Derbyshire.

From the birthplace of rugby to the Cotswolds Olympicks, VisitEngland is on a quest to find the country's ultimate home of sport.

The destination for Benedict Cumberbatch's recent wedding, Freshwater Bay is an artistic hotspot still as picturesque as it was in the days of Lord Tennyson.

When John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth wrote Fawlty Towers - first shown 40 years ago today - they had no idea they were creating a hotel that would become national institutions.

Kate Winslet, like me, seems to have three different dress sizes: a size 12 from the front, a size 10 from the side and a size 14 from behind, writes JULIA LAWRENCE

A cleaning team was called to Gateshead Metro Station after a train was invaded by crabs. According to reports, a passenger was carrying the crustaceans in a plastic bag, which split.

He's able to survive in the most treacherous conditions, but Bear Grylls' latest property acquisition in Battersea Power Station proves he more than happy to enjoy some luxury living too.

Nicci Taylor (left) sold her home in the Wirral to buy a campervan and set off on a to find love. She met James Pollard (right), a Lord of the Manor in Scotland, and love blossomed.

This week BEL MOONEY advises a man whose wife sent naked photos to another man and a woman who is worried her daughter, who has Asperger's syndrome, will be hurt if they move home.

Oscar Pistorius is 'frail, gaunt and broken' his friend has revealed as the athlete waits to find out whether he will be granted parole ten months into his jail sentence.

The 88-year-old Italian, once described as 'the most beautiful woman in the world' claims 54-year-old Javier Rigau Rafols conned her into marriage in an attempt to inherit her £35million estate.