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“I’m a mess, cocker. You don’t want to see this.” Hacker T Dog is having a bad hair day when Big Issue arrives on a video call with Blue Peter presenter and his soon-to-be co-host, Abby Cook. So it’s

The daughter of actress Dinah Sheridan and actor Jimmy Hanley, Jenny Hanley came to Magpie as an established actress, already having been in Hammer films, the Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

The commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission ...

Back when ITV was a network of separate regional broadcasters, the TV listings in newspapers would include a list of local variations. “As for London except” would be followed by a selection of weird

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It was at 7.15pm on Thursday 22 September 1955 that the greatest commercial television event appeared on screens in the London area. As screens flickered the first images, most of the 200,000 viewers