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Lord Grade faces £2.5million court battle with a former business ‘partner’ he has since reported to the fraud squad over a fundraising campaign in the Far East Lord Grade is locked in a High Court battle with his Chinese business partner Zheng Yongxiong allegedly boasted of being jailed for a Ponzi-style scheme Lord Grade travelled … Read more
Let’s have a debate about the BBC. We’re always up for it. We are probably the most hotly debated organisation in the country. That’s good. It means we matter. The former culture secretary Nicky Morgan wrote recently that the BBC needs to accept that no change isn’t an option. I couldn’t agree more. A BBC … Read more
BBC director-general Tony Hall has promised not to abandon older audiences amid fears the corporation’s attempts to appeal to youngsters will leave them feeling ignored. Writing on this page today, Lord Hall said older Britons are ‘super-users’ of the broadcaster’s services and vowed they will always be ‘super-served’ by it. He said the BBC, which … Read more
British public IS racist towards Meghan Markle says Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall author Dame Hilary Mantel Hilary Mantel said racism has played a part in criticism aimed at Meghan Markle The author said there is an ‘intense concentration on bodies of royal women’ She compared scrutiny of the Meghan to that faced by royal women … Read more
Fiona Bruce reveals she has NEVER had Botox… but admits that in the era of high-definition TV, presenters who have not gone under the knife can look ‘pretty rough’ on screen Fiona Bruce wants people to see what a 55-year-old looks like without Botox Presenters Andrea McClean, 50, and Anthea Turner, 59, admit to using … Read more
Former aide to Priti Patel ‘took an overdose after claiming she was being bullied by the minister’ In 2015, then employment minister was said to have sacked the female staffer The aide received a £25,000 payout from Department for Work and Pensions Comes amid row engulfing Home Secretary after permanent secretary resigned By Jack Elsom … Read more
‘Unscrupulous’ Virgin Media signed up 85-year-old dementia sufferer for £680-a-year fibre-optic TV and broadband package even though he only watches BBC and ITV Sydney Gill, 85, was sold a £681-a-year fibre optic package by Virgin Media Retired police officer has dementia and only watches two channels on Freeview MP Suella Braverman said Virgin Media has been … Read more
Daisy May Cooper revealed that she was making £100 a month as a cleaner and couldn’t afford to buy a McDonald’s before her breakthrough role in This Country. The actress, 34, from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, won the 2018 Bafta TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for playing Kerry Mucklowe in the BBC Three series, which she … Read more
Six Nations set to move off free-to-air TV as ‘Sky line up £300m bid’ to snatch live rights from 2021 after BBC and ITV were prevented from teaming up again to keep the tournament on network TV Six Nations ‘may not by on free-to-air channels’ from 2021 as Sky line up bid BBC and ITV … Read more
Guitar once owned by John Lennon and George Harrison is valued at £400,000 by Antiques Roadshow expert blown away by ‘the most expensive thing I’ve seen in 25 years’ Owner said he was given guitar because he could play it better than Harrison He used to do recording sessions for Handmade Films, co-founded by Harrison … Read more