Sarah Oliver

Dame Vivienne Westwood contacted ‘close friend’ Julian Assange in prison just weeks before her death on Thursday to tell him she was seriously unwell, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Once, however, Sheila Buckley was the glamorous young brunette whose love affair with rogue MP and Communist traitor John Stonehouse scandalised British politics.

But if Ebenezer Scrooge is a supreme feat of literary imagination, what’s less well-known is that the character had an inspiration in real life. John Elwes was a man so truly miserly.

The actors in the latest season of The Crown have opened up about the controversial new series, which is set for release on Netflix at the start of November.

A quarter of the wedding party will be maximum-security prison guards and one of the cameras recording the occasion will be part of the CCTV inside HMP Belmarsh in South London.

When UK TV star Julia Bradbury walked the red carpet at the National Television Awards earlier this month, she chose a silver off-the-shoulder jumpsuit cut dramatically across her chest.

Alta Fixsler was born severely brain-damaged and has never spent a night out of hospital. Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has won the right to withdraw life-sustaining treatment.

Here at the Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Suffolk, we’re partying together like it’s, well, like it’s 2021 and we’ve all been locked up for 16 months.

Bullied because of her autism, she dropped out of school and completed her studies on a computer in an extension off the family garage. Yet she is so clever with money.

Holly Smith reckons it would just take her just a few seconds to save the average family £20 to £30 on their weekly shop. Here she tells readers how to do it:

Gwen Dickey, better known as the soulful voice of Rose Royce, will be carried on stage aboard a lavish red velvet chaise longue for her upcoming live show.

Kerry Radley, 45, had been warring with Martin Nudd and his wife Judith over teashop turf in Salhouse in the Norfolk Broads. Both claim they have suffered intimidating and abusive behaviour.

Meghan Markle married film producer Trevor Engelson in September 2011. But the marriage became a casualty of their respective career ambitions and the couple divorced in 2013.

In a Norfolk field a troupe of 130 singers, dancers and musicians present a three-hour festive spectacular which runs for six weeks and sells more tickets annually than the Glastonbury festival.

It is a picture of power at play providing a rare glimpse into the fiercely guarded private life of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at their London home, Apartment 1A in Kensington Palace.