Emmerdale’ s Mary Goskirk

Mary Pargeter was starting to feel her age. When did she first attend the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Greenwood House? A quarter of a century, and she was retired even then. Had she loc

Oh, the joy of curling up on a winter’s afternoon to immerse oneself in a compelling crime novel or TV drama featuring victims and sleuths. The story will be set in a picturesque, seemingly safe place

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SHE’S the heart and soul of every traditional pantomime and one of the best-loved characters of all. Often, she’s the mother of the village idiot, the ship’s chief cook and bottle-washer or the propri

As Dame Judi Dench explores a connection to her hero William Shakespeare, she talks love, death, forgiveness and controlling her temper