Everybody’s favourite Yorkshire lass tells Shereen Low why life in her sixties is better than ever

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

Janet Street-Porter is so unashamedly honest, witty and entertaining that you wish you could spend days, not hours in her company. Described on her own website as “the nation’s favourite pissed-off pe

As she prepares to return to the stage and screen, Jane McDonald, 62, tells us how she’ll spend her Christmas

Mica Paris has no plans to fade into the background — even if her last role in EastEnders technically left her behind bars. “EastEnders was a while ago now,” she laughs. “Would I ever go back? Well, I

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