Humour me, for a moment, and imagine these highly improbable courtroom proceedings: — ‘Detective Constable Green, explain to the court, if you will, how you came to the somewhat bold conclusion that M

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Glynis Barber, 70, on why arguing is healthy and her love of Agatha Christie

BRUSHING wind-whipped hair from her eyes, Catriona crouched, scanning the colourful smorgasbord of stones, seaweed and shells on the shoreline. There! Half-hidden under an empty limpet. A cowrie. Gent

I HOPE this is the last time I’ll sit at home watching the Winter Olympics on telly,” I said. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean were kneeling on the ice. “In four years’ time, I want to be there, cov

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