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Christopher MacLehose: A life in publishing
'The success of Stieg Larsson gives every brave little publisher the tiny hope that Britain could wake up just this once more and take a writer to its heart' One of the most striking publishing...
View ArticlePolice issue a drug drive warning after inquest
Plymouth -- POLICE have issued a drug-drive warning after an inquest into the death of a teenager. Acting Superintendent Brendan Brookshaw of Plymouth police was speaking after a Truro coroner heard...
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Drug drive warning after inquest into death of teenager
Plymouth -- POLICE have issued a drug-drive warning after an inquest into the death of a teenager. Acting Superintendent Brendan Brookshaw of Plymouth police was speaking after a Truro coroner heard...
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Paedophile snared by police after he takes picture of a girl at his home with...
David Mellor, 62, didn't spot the store sign when he photographed the girl in his kitchen and posted it on the internet. Reported by MailOnline 3 days ago.
View ArticleRestless, BBC1, Thursday and Friday / The Girl, BBC2, Boxing Day / Downton...
Had you awoken, slumped before the box, from a post-prandial carb coma on Thursday night, you'd have been forgiven for thinking that the makers of Downton Abbey had really lost it this time. Reported...
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Why don't more girls study physics?
Despite efforts to get more women into science labs almost half of Britain's co-ed schools have no female students taking A-level physics. Are sexist attitudes still to blame – or is it a fear of being...
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Helicopter parents? Stalker children – they are the truly scary ones |...
Aubrey Ireland's case highlights overbearing parents, but there are plenty of grown-up children who just don't know when to leave Pity 21-year-old Aubrey Ireland, a music student at the University of...
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Nonfiction for spring – preview
Victorian cross-dressers, therapeutic hiking, a smart pop memoir and a graphic view of jealousy – Rachel Cooke's pick of nonfiction this spring If, like me, you are a fan of the idiosyncratic,...
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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Berberian Sound Studio; Grabbers; Code Name Geronimo – the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden; A Few Best Men While the press has been full of doom-and-gloom stories about the "British film industry" (whatever...
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Rewind TV: Downton Abbey; Restless; Loving Miss Hatto; The Girl; David...
The Granthams lost the plot in a glutinous Downton Christmas special and a disappointing William Boyd thriller somehow transformed Rufus Sewell into Michael Gambon *Downton Abbey* (ITV1) | *ITVPlayer*...
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Trailer trash
A disappointingly CGI TV Christmas… and the Trailer Trash awards 2012 **Telly troubles** * * Christmas movies on TV were all so... how shall I put it? Computer-generated. It seems now that when the...
View ArticleTeen driver dies in A20 car crash
Kent -- A 17-YEAR-OLD girl was one of two victims in a fatal car crash on the A20 between Maidstone and Ashford last night. The girl, from the Ashford area, was driving her Ford Fiesta on the...
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Indian gang-rape victim's family calls for attackers to be hanged
Brother says fight for justice for medical student has just begun, as father describes how family is still in shock after brutal attack The family of the Indian gang-rape victim has spoken for the...
View ArticleEpworth actress Sheridan Smith will hope to top her award-winning 2012 this year
This is Scunthorpe -- Following a hugely successful 2012 for Sheridan Smith, the Epworth born actress' star shone brightly in the public eye at Christmas and is poised to do so again throughout 2013....
View ArticlePlymouth man spat at mother-in-law while she held his baby
This is Plymouth -- A FATHER repeatedly spat at his mother-in-law while she was holding his four-week-old baby, a court heard. Karl Dennis, aged 32, then picked up the girl himself and kicked the woman...
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Friends turn in Ilkeston net pervert Ian May who preyed on girl, 15
This is Derbyshire -- A PAEDOPHILE who preyed on a 15-year-old girl was turned in by his friends when they discovered his obscene messages to the teenager. Ian May, 39, who bombarded the youngster...
View ArticleDrunken man groped 12-year-old in street
This is Grimsby -- A MAN sought refuge in Grimsby Top Town shops after groping a 12-year-old girl in the street. The girl's friends followed Benjamin Forster, 33, of Harrison House, Grimsby, and called...
View ArticleDrunken man groped 12-year-old in Grimsby town centre street
This is Grimsby -- A MAN sought refuge in Grimsby Top Town shops after groping a 12-year-old girl in the street. The girl's friends followed Benjamin Forster, 33, of Harrison House, Grimsby, and called...
View ArticleGirl touched indecently on train in Leicestershire - police appeal for...
This is Leicestershire -- Police are searching for a man who indecently assaulted a teenage girl on a train. The 16-year-old passenger was "inappropriately touched" as she travelled on the 9.28pm...
View ArticleSchoolgirls as young as 11 approached by strange man
This is Gloucestershire -- Schoolgirls as young as 11 are being approached by a strange man. Police are appealing for information on two suspicious incidents in Stroud. The first incident happened...
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