So far, many clues to the origins of the deadly Eaton fire, which started in the area just after 6 p.m. that evening and went on to kill 17 people, have pointed to the brushy hillside where a tangle ...

Opera singer and radio presenter Wynne Evans dragged his reputation through the mud and left it six feet under, on the eve of his Welsh travels with Joanna Page on primetime BBC1, Wynne And Joanna ...

Perhaps that’s why comedian Russell Howard, once a panel game regular and host of shows such as Good News, has announced he’s quitting the small screen. Fellow stand-up Dara O’Briain, a ...

Poor Leonard. He'd so love to be a detective in Grantchester, but he lacks those leading man looks. Sleuths need jutting jaws — our Lennie has jutting ears. And poor Geordie. He's a police ...

Mental arithmetic is a lost skill. Chances are, if pocket calculators were around by the time you went to school, you’ve always relied on machines for adding up. And if you’re from the ...

Some people are afraid of string. Seeing a ball of twine brings them out in a cold sweat. Don't believe me? Get knotted - it's a recognised medical condition, called linonophobia. The clinical ...

What do vegetarian polar bears eat? Iceberg lettuce, of course. Except, as presenter Victoria Gill discovered, that's nearly true, but not quite. Where The Polar Bears Wait, a half-hour passion ...

Old detectives never retire. They either die, or keep on solving cases . . . and sometimes, as in the case of Sherlock Holmes, do both. Before his inexplicable return to Baker Street, Holmes ...

An ex-soldier who calls herself 'Assassin Barbie'. An Anglican priest in disguise, her dog collar craftily hidden. A woman feigning a Welsh accent who says she is, 'being a totally fake version ...

Sometimes it’s better not to know. DNA tests can uncover all sorts of unpleasant secrets that once might have stayed hidden for ever. About three per cent of men, according to a 2018 university ...

The name’s Schama, Simon Schama . . . Schaken, not Schtirred. Telly’s foremost cultural historian is nursing a soft spot for literature’s most politically incorrect spy. Drooling over a ...

Picture a drugs dealer and you might imagine a Mexican tattoo artist with a machete in his closet and a rucksack full of crystal meth. That’s not a cheap racist stereotype: during a real-life ...