When Coleridge found Wordsworth in bed with the love of his life the poets fell out bitterly

BOOK OF THE WEEK RADICAL WORDSWORTH     by Jonathan Bate (William Collins, £25, 608 pp) The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth, together with Wordsworth’s wife Mary, her sister Sara Hutchinson and Wordsworth’s own sister, Dorothy. Two days later, Coleridge bolted from the house. Taking refuge in the … Read more

When Coleridge found Wordsworth in bed with the love of his life the poets fell out bitterly

BOOK OF THE WEEK RADICAL WORDSWORTH     by Jonathan Bate (William Collins, £25, 608 pp) The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge spent Christmas Day 1806 with his close friend William Wordsworth, together with Wordsworth’s wife Mary, her sister Sara Hutchinson and Wordsworth’s own sister, Dorothy. Two days later, Coleridge bolted from the house. Taking refuge in the … Read more

Top Gun: Maverick to be reshuffled due to coronavirus with its release pushed back to December

Top Gun: Maverick gets release date moved from June to December as Tom Cruise tweets ‘I know many of you have waited 34 years, unfortunately, it will be a little longer’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 20:30 BST, 2 April 2020 | Updated: 20:32 BST, 2 April 2020 Instead of a summer movie, it … Read more

Dolly Parton announces she is donating $1M toward researching COVID-19

Dolly Parton is opening up her checkbook during the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish flu. The 74-year-old country singer announced on Wednesday she is donating $1M toward researching COVID-19 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. And the Hardcandy Christmas crooner also encouraged people with means to also donate what they can.   A giver: Dolly … Read more

It should be teeming – but like all of Britain’s locked down garden centres, it is a ghost town

The wallflowers are looking magnificent. The tulips and primulas are in full bloom. All around me are beds and tables full of magnificent plants in the best of health – thousands of them – and all waiting for a good home. Except there is no one here today, apart from Colin Campbell-Preston, a man who … Read more

It should be teeming – but like all of Britain’s locked down garden centres, it is a ghost town

The wallflowers are looking magnificent. The tulips and primulas are in full bloom. All around me are beds and tables full of magnificent plants in the best of health – thousands of them – and all waiting for a good home. Except there is no one here today, apart from Colin Campbell-Preston, a man who … Read more

BBC Children In Need boss Rosie Millard, 54, leaves her husband and four children for a 66-year-old

BBC Children In Need boss Rosie Millard has left her husband and four children for a multi-millionaire television producer. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the former BBC Arts Correspondent walked out on her family as they were preparing for Christmas in 2018. She has moved in with award-winning TV producer Alexander Graham, 66, … Read more

BBC Children In Need boss Rosie Millard, 54, leaves her husband and four children for a 66-year-old

BBC Children In Need boss Rosie Millard, 54, leaves her husband and four children for multi-millionaire chairman of the Guardian’s Scott Trust – who also ditched his family Former BBC Arts Correspondent walked out on her family before Christmas She has moved in with award-winning TV producer Alexander Graham, 66 Partner is chairman of the … Read more

Pope Francis delivers first Urbi et Orbi global blessing outside of Christmas or Easter

The Pope has delivered a blessing which is normally reserved for Christmas and Easter in an extremely rare move in response to the coronavirus pandemic.  Francis delivered the ‘Urbi et Orbi’ blessing – Latin for ‘to the city and the world’ – in an empty St Peter’s Square this evening.  The blessing is usually given … Read more