The day before we catch up with Joanna Page, she was discussing funeral plans with her husband, former Emmerdale actor James Thornton. She tells us, “I said to James yesterday, ‘I’ve already decided t

Sally Ann Matthews will always be cemented in the minds of Coronation Street lovers as Jenny Bradley, the young rebel who arrived in Weatherfield in 1986 and left in 1993, only to come back over two d

Following her cancer recovery, actor Alex Kingston found poise and purpose on Strictly Come Dancing . Now, with a new ITV political thriller on the way, she tells Alicia Lansom why she’s joyfully embracing everything that life has to offer

→ After her sixth flood in three decades, Heather Shepherd has stopped trying to keep the River Severn out of her Shropshire home. “I just say, come on in,” she tells Big Issue. “Sit down, and let me

11 MARCH

Emma Atkins on playing Emmerdale ’s madcap Charity Dingle, and how she loves living in Yorkshire with her son