Judy Parfitt, 85, said Bafta bosses prefer 'dramas with lots of breasts'. Meanwhile Dr Turner actor Stephen McGann, 58, also said the show deserves more recognition.

Revellers were seen getting rowdy on Monday night in cities such as London, Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle after bars were reopened for the first time since January.

Many much-loved restaurant features won't be back until 21st June, with many eateries ditching their popular buffets, while some are waving goodbye to table service and going cash free.

Senior royals are coming together to ensure the monarch is accompanied by a member of the family on future public engagements.

The Duke of Sussex is staying at Frogmore Cottage, the couple's former home in the grounds of Windsor Castle, to quarantine for five days before attending the royal service.

Multiple people have been shot, among them a police officer, following a shooting at Austin East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. A suspect was said to have been detained.

The Typhoons will be supported by troops from the RAF's No 1 Expeditionary Logistics Squadron and No 2 Mechanical Transport Squadron.

Restaurant owners chanting 'we are all workers' gathered in Rome before police blocked them off from an area outside the Prime Minister's office Chigi Palace and confined them to a central plaza.

Footage filmed by an eyewitness shows three men jump out of a grey van and drag a male victim towards the vehicle in east London on Sunday at around 3pm before driving off.

PC Charlie Harrison was sentenced after a five-day trial at Southwark Crown Court. The officer used his foot to strike a man's legs, making him fall to the ground and causing a fracture to his knee.

Most UK adults wish they been taught practical life skills such as how to change a tyre, write a CV or plaster over holes and cracks.

The former First Minister's Alba Party broadcast a strange 100-second clip in which an actor playing Robert the Bruce vows the rival to Nicola Sturgeon's SNP will break 'the spine of English superiority'.

An article published on 26 February 2021 briefly carried the headline "Gotcha! Police speed camera van driver is caught 'scrolling through Facebook' on her PHONE at 60mph". We are...

The stipends of all Church of England clergy - from the Archbishop of Canterbury down to junior curates - increased by zero per cent in their annual pay round.

The broadcaster axed its programming across multiple channels on Friday to air specials celebrating the life of the Duke of Edinburgh, who died at Windsor Castle shy of his 100th birthday.

The Alba Party leader claimed the First Minister's suggestion that a referendum will happen in 2023 or later has caused 'consternation' in the pro-independence movement.

City executive Tom Skinner made a drunken pass at junior colleague Jessica Lennox at a work function, telling her she was in his 'top three', an employment tribunal in central London heard.

For every woman working 30 hours a week in her sixties, it costs state £5,600 to make up for care she would have provided for elderly relatives, researchers at King's College London found.

UN high commissioner Michelle Bachelet warned legislation which intends to curb prosecutions involving soldiers alleged to have tortured detainees will make the UK less accountable.

Ellie Goldsmith, of Bourne, Lincolnshire, was eligible for the AstraZeneca vaccine because of her care job.

Leona Brown, 39, was cradling her baby bump on a chair in her front room when she heard explosive banging at the front door in Walthamstow, north-east London.

Officers investigating a fatal shooting in Sheffield over the weekend have released a picture of victim Khurm Javed, 30, as two people arrested earlier today remain in police custody.

Zoe Stacey, 36, was told giving birth to baby William just two months ago is not an excuse not to sit on a jury at Winchester Crown Court next month.

Vince McMahan had a fire-poker forced down his throat and was beaten to the floor in a brutal attack at his home in Canterbury, Kent. Attackers Stuart Holland, 45, and Joanna Bath, 46, were jailed today.

Traffic levels rocketed today as lockdown restrictions were finally released to allow non-essential shops, pubs, restaurants and barbers to open.

Giles Coren, 52, tweeted that he 'got his electric kitty cat back' after the Jaguar I-Pace was stolen on Friday night and abandoned on a street in Highgate, north London, for two days.

Boris Johnson took advantage of lockdown easing to smarten up after complaints about his increasingly shaggy look.

Downing Street has slapped down Nicola Sturgeon after she said she does not believe Boris Johnson would block a second Scottish independence referendum.

The former Countryfiles host, 50, took to Twitter to share the shocking news on Sunday, as she asked people to contact Nottinghamshire Police with information.

A researcher from Sweden monitored more than 200 adult habitual runners over the course of a year - with a sports physician diagnosing an injuries that developed.

Many eagle-eyed viewers are already trying to join up the dots - but for those less familiar with seasons gone by, here's a refresher on Operation Trapdoor and its significance to series six.

Family members dashed round to Daisy Clear's home in Stockport, Greater Manchester after her seven-year-old daughter said she 'couldn't wake her up' but found that she had already died.

Kit Harington and Rose Leslie have won a battle to save the moat at their £1.75million country home after applying for permission to carry out urgent repairs including building a new wall.

SAGE models had predicted Covid deaths and hospitalisations could resurge during August. But senior advisers are now seeking to distance themselves from the models.

Elliot Colburn, the 28-year-old MP for Carshalton and Wallington who dates a councillor on Sutton Council, shared an image of the letter on Twitter and said he had informed the police.

The miniscule studio apartment in Bristol city centre, on the market for £140,000, which features a bed directly above a sofa, is described as a 'unique opportunity'.

Some 62 per cent of those polled believe that Brexit had helped the jab programme which has seen more than 30 million people in Britain inoculated.

Brendan Rodgers found out that James Maddison, Harvey Barnes and Hamza Choudhury were flouting Covid-19 lockdown rules by attending a house party at their teammate Ayoze Perez's home.

To mark their 50th birthday and the easing of lockdown, the high street coffee chain's handcrafted drinks will be reduced for any customers that user the app in all UK stores.

Police are investigating as a man in his 70s named locally as Jonathan Metcalf choked wife Jenny Metcalf, 60s, to death before hanging himself at a £500,000 Grade II-listed house in Suffolk.

Butcher Gary Sell received fines for parking on double yellow lines outside his Tadworth shop. But he has overturned £20,000 by proving the road was private.

The most expensive companies on the official list of Government-approved firms sell Covid-19 tests for four times the price of the cheapest firms and five times if you want 24-hour turnaround.

Dale McLaughlan, 28, won the heart of Jessica Radcliffe, 30, after making the 25-mile journey from Scotland to the Isle of Man to visit his new love in December last year - but friends say it wasn't to last.

ANDREW PIERCE: The political stench surrounding David Cameron's lobbying efforts on behalf of Greensill Capital grows stronger by the day.

With gyms set to reopen across the UK on April 12, Sarah Lindsay says the key to losing weight and shaping up in time for summer is to 'swerve the treadmill' and do weight training instead.

The Islamic holy month of Ramadan was declared on Tuesday by Saudi Arabia. Today worshippers prayed socially distanced outside the Kaaba in contrast to last year which saw the courtyard deserted.

The violent melee involving three men unfolded on Old Windsor Road at Bella Vista in Sydney's north-west during the morning peak hour on Tuesday.

Two people are dead after a horrific light plane crash on the New South Wales and ACT border.

Kimberly Potter, a 48-year-old veteran of the Brooklyn Center police and a married mother of two adult sons, has been named as the officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright on Sunday.

Eriks Valants and Jed Martin lashed 72-year-old Susan Hunt, from Hampshire, to the bannister, bound her hands with black tape and put a pillowcase over her head during their raid.

Vegan Fiji Willetts, 18, did not expect an animal management course at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College to include a module on farming that could have seen her visit an abattoir.

Noel Phillips was reporting from Minneapolis, where violent protests have broken out over the fatal shooting of a black man by police, when he was forced to run for cover as gunshots were heard.

State health authorities issued an urgent warning for residents in the Ringwood area, east of Melbourne, on Tuesday evening.

Former parliamentary staffer Brittany Higgins has signed a $250,000 deal with publishers Penguin Random House Australia after a three-way bidding war involving Allen & Unwin and Hachette.

Dee Dee Mueller from Pasadena, California noticed the bear on her CCTV cameras after reviewing the footage when her dogs started to bark, waking her up from a nap.

Millions of Britons were waking up to their first pub hangover of the year this morning after packing bars and restaurants for scenes of carnage as lockdown restrictions were eased.

Two men have been arrested for allegedly training monkeys to intimidate people into giving them their valuable possessions in New Dehli, India.

America's top coronavirus expert has previously been critical of AstraZeneca's vaccine trial and earlier in the year slammed the British medical regulator for 'rushing' jabs through approval.

The incident took place in Syracuse, New York at 6.51pm on Sunday evening.

Two-year-old sausage dog Minnie was thrown into a black Ford Mondeo after being stolen by two men when she was out on a walk with her owner in Woodville, Derbyshire, on Sunday.

Tallis Boerne Marcus and his girlfriend Natalie Ojeda were hiking through Macquarie Pass National Park on the afternoon of April 5, hunting for hidden waterfalls.

Mr Scobie insisted that Meghan 'wanted' to attend the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral at Windsor on Saturday amid claims in the US she skipped it to avoid being 'centre of attention'.

Lachie Jones. 19, a rookie AFL player from South Australia has revealed why he is suddenly one of the code's most popular figures - after just one senior game with Port Adelaide.

The official figures marked a recovery from the grim 2.2 per cent drop the previous month, with the construction sector driving the improvement.

New Zealand born Jason Taumalolo had hoped he'd be able to put on the Maroons jersey for this year's Origin with the prospect of the eligibility rules changing.

The female police officer who shot dead Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man, during a traffic stop in Minneapolis accidentally fired her gun instead of her taser, the police chief said.

Sam David McLennan, 25, and Miguel David, 24, will remain behind bars after they were arrested in front of stunned onlookers in Neutral Bay, on the Lower North Shore, about 4.20pm on Monday.

President Joe Biden was given three Pinocchios by The Washington Post's fact-checker on Monday after saying Friday that 'the average rapist rapes about six times.'

A police officer was seen on video slashing a suspected human smuggler's raft last Thursday on the Rio Grande's shore in the Texas border city of Roma.

Danielle Tara Hogan, 25, from North Bondi in Sydney, cut ties with the syndicate in late 2019 after her boyfriend was aware of her line of work, but it was too late as police were already on to her.

A self-confessed paedophile who took a five-year-old girl from a campground in Tasmania allegedly told prison staff his intention was to 'eat' the child.

Donald Trump accused CNN of making up a story that embattled Florida congressman Matt Gaetz wished to have a meeting with him. Trump said the story was 'dishonest' and 'completely false'.

The retail giant re-issued a previous recall of its Metal Chair on Tuesday, which was first released in 2016, amid ongoing concerns for customers' safety.

Ms Holgate resigned in November after Scott Morrison roasted her for giving four executives luxury Cartier watches worth $20,000 in October 2018 as a reward for securing a $66 million deal

The Fox News host on Monday night doubled down on his claim that Democrats were welcoming migrants into the U.S. with a view of making the electorate more favorable.

German ministers are set to agree new laws that would hand Angela Merkel more control over the country's Covid response and allow her to impose measures on areas with high infection rates.

Offensive terms including the 'n-word' were removed from Scrabble's official online words list following worldwide anti-racism protests in the wake of the death of American George Floyd.

Julia Salazar, 30, left, said the incidents happened while in the legislative chamber and then at a fundraiser outside the Capitol in 2019. Cuomo, right, has denied allegations against him.

The jury in NRL star Jack de Belin's sexual assault trial in Sydney has been dismissed within an hour of proceedings starting after a juror complained about the day rate they receive.

Emergency services are attending to a multiple car crash in Adelaide, caused by a huge dust storm causing zero visibility affecting the city.

An estranged father and daughter reconnected via Facebook and later shared explicit messages in March and April 2019 before engaging in sexual intercourse in a Gold Coast hotel.

Stargazers in Melbourne were stunned overnight after seeing a trail of dozens of bright lights they assumed were meteorites flying across the sky. 

Sydney tradesman Sam Sabsabi broke through the front door of a burning home on the way to work and dragged a resident out of the searing heat. Tragically a second resident later died.

Sales have plunged for the the Audi A3 and Mercedes-Benz A-Class hatches as popularity soared for prestige sedans like the Lexus IS and the BMW 3-Series

Brooklyn Center City Manager, Curt Boganey, has been fired after he publicly disagreed with Mayor Mike Elliott's assertion the police officer who fatally shot a black man be fired.

Smoking marijuana only impairs drivers for up to 10 hours, so fining people and suspending their licences for THC in blood and saliva is 'manifestly unjust', University of Sydney researchers say.

Hospitality employers are now really struggling to find chefs and cooks. The food and accommodation sector has been the worst-affected by Covid but the number of jobs is bouncing back.

Kimberley Ametoglou, née Duthie has claimed to be the owner of the notorious Sin City Gentlemen's Club in Dandenong, Melbourne.

Hailey Voke was exploring Moreton Island, off the coast of Brisbane, when she discovered a bizarre eight-legged sea creature. 

A County Court proposal put forward by Victorian judges asks for more leniency in listing convicted sex offenders on the register and will offer offenders an exemption application.

A Southern California high school teacher Alissa Piro has been suspended after she was filmed 'going off' at students in a Zoom call that was later posted online. One such student was Jace Jonas.

Domino's Pizza are looking to fill 2,500 job vacancies across Australia as the fast food giant is expected to open hundreds of new stores this year.

Staff Sergeant Randall S. Hughes pleaded guilty on March 30. He attacked two women while stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas (top right) and his daughter while at Fort Dix, New Jersey (bottom right).

'You'll grow into it'

At 5.42pm on Monday, June 1, 1953, the Queen, cheered by a crowd 150,000 strong, stepped out on to the balcony at Buckingham Palace after her Coronation - her husband right behind her.

Emma Ferris, from New Zealand, launched the podcast 'Conning the Con' with her sister Sarah Ferris in an effort to warn other women using Tinder.

The Pentagon has confirmed that a set of images and videos showing unidentified flying objects buzzing over Navy warships off the coast of California 'were taken' by branch personnel.

The 90-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were crossing the Ballina bar around 8.45am on Tuesday when their boat suddenly flipped over.

Piers Morgan has taken to Twitter calling Sheryl Underwood 'a shameless fraud'. It came after Underwood  claimed she has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The Oceanview Walking Track - which cuts across Burleigh Head National Park in Queensland's south-east - has been closed by authorities after two landslips during heavy rainfall in late March.

Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenager missing from Sydney's west.

Jason Whitlock has had his Twitter account, with 433,000 follower, blocked after he commented on a real estate blog, discussing BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors' new $1.4m home.

Stevie Wonder has compared the shooting death of Australian woman Justine Damond by a Minneapolis police officer to that of Duane Wright, who was gunned down by a cop in the same US city.

Jason Langhans, 17, was viciously attacked in the early hours of March 21 at the home in Tooradin in Melbourne 's south-east, and died in hospital this week when his family turned off life support.

Evi Rowe was in Year 8 in 2018 when she was allegedly molested by a male pupil at St Edmund's College in Wahroonga, on Sydney's upper north shore.

Ex-deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce did not waste an opportunity to shoot down the man he served under, Malcolm Turnbull, over bullying claims made about a media 'vendetta'.

Professor John Skerritt, head of the Therapeutic Goods Administration, said only two people in Australia have suffered the rare clotting event after about 700,000 received the AstraZeneca vaccine.

A convicted rapist found guilty of killing teenager Hayley Dodd two decades ago has been told he will spend 18 years in jail for her manslaughter - one of the longest sentences ever for the offence in Australia.

The first naked man, who has long hair, was reportedly screaming and cursing as he walked around Nightcliff, Darwin, with bloodied hands at about 1.30pm on Monday.

Josh Hawley raised more than $3 million since the Capitol riot, a change in fortunes for the Missouri Republican who initially lost some donors for his role in challenging the 2020 election results.

White House officials, as they push President Joe Biden's agenda, are giving new meaning to the phrase 'bipartisan support,' arguing it doesn't mean winning Republican votes on Capitol Hill.

A new survey shows a whopping 98% of American CEOs say Joe Biden's proposed corporate tax rate hike could severely stunt employees' wage growth and companies' profits.

A New Zealand family's pregnant cavoodle named Pippa was stolen, only for her to be later dumped at home without her four puppies. 

Allan Craig Cunnington, from the Sunshine Coast, had followed the 15-year-old and her friend into a room and lay down on a bed in between them while at a house on January 15.

Australia's greatest UFC fighter says a bout with former NRL star Paul Gallen is in his sights after training with Tim Tszyu for his upcoming match.

A fourth member of swimming great Scott Miller's alleged drug syndicate has been hit with fresh charges which carry the maximum penalty available under New South Wales law.

Three women from Western Australia were shocked to discover their personal photos had been stolen to promote fake OnlyFans accounts that promised explicit content.

Adam Coble, 40, was fatally knifed in the chest by his mother-in-law Kay Leonard after he subjected her to a stabbing spree in his North Richmond home in north-west Sydney in January 2019.

President Joe Biden on Monday tweeted out an image of VP Kamala Harris counseling him, calling her the 'last voice in the room' after a top Republican questioned whether he was in charge.

President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting the area near Mariupol. Zelensky said that a Russian invasion is a real possibility that Ukraine is bracing for.

Amber-Lee Cruickshank was just two-years-old when she vanished from a house in Kingston, near Lake Wakatipu in New Zealand on October 17, 1992.

President Joe Biden said Monday there was no justification for violence in Minneapolis after black man Daunte Wright was shot and killed by a police officer who mistook her gun for a taser.

Seven million customers filled town centres in England and Wales yesterday, with the number of shoppers up by 146% on last Monday and by 481% on the same day last year by 5pm.

Mirka Tothova was celebrating her 30th birthday with ten others on board a boat on Easter Sunday when the vessel exploded on the Hawkesbury River Marina, north of Sydney.

Oracle founder and billionaire Larry Ellison bought a sprawling Florida mansion for $80 million set in a gated community located in North Palm Beach but he now plans to knock the place down.

Raymond Ngan, 49, was implicated in the brazen heist in court documents filed by Las Vegas entrepreneur Jay Bloom, who is seeking to recover a $2.2 billion civil judgement from Ngan.

Cianna Brenia was riding with a friend on a rural property in Takura, Queensland's Fraser Coast, when the dune buggy ran over a large stick and pierced her thigh and abdomen.

Younger Australians are no longer prepared to move a long way from the city centre to live in a house with a big backyard. Metropole Property Strategists has revealed what buyers really want.

Emergency services were called to River Avenue at Carramar about 7.15am on Tuesday morning. Crews arrived to find a person outside suffering from smoke inhalation and a man inside the house.

GYLES BRANDRETH: On the whole, Prince Philip was reasonably circumspect when talking about his children and their relationships - except for Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.

GYLES BRANDRETH: My introduction to the Queen was disconcerting, to say the least. 'This is Gyles Brandreth,' said Prince Philip cheerily. 'Apparently, he's writing about you.'

RICHARD KAY: At its heart, Saturday's funeral for Prince Philip at Windsor Castle is no more, and certainly no less, than what was always intended - the family farewell to an extraordinary man.

A woman in her 40s has been hospitalised with blood clots reportedly after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.

New Zealanders with a sense of humour are being buried in giant cream-filled doughnuts, a pirate ship and even life-sized blocks of Lego, with the bizarre designs reflecting their personalities.

Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell said the Queen has 'lost the captain of her ship' after the death of Prince Philip, her husband of more than 70 years.

An elderly man has died in a Queensland hospital of coronavirus.

Australia has ruled out buying Johnson & Johnson's highly-regarded one shot Covid vaccine because of similarities to the AstraZeneca vaccine - but there's another reason it's not in our rollout plans.

The highly anticipated return of Victoria's ANZAC Day march has copped backlash from veterans with only a small number confirmed to attend due to safety fears.

The 73-year-old man fell overboard while fishing on the Calliope River in Gladstone, central Queensland, on Sunday morning after his boat was rocked by the wake of another vessel.

The cat's owner Jessica Stevens shared confronting video on Monday of a man wearing a backpack taking the mixed breed cat from the home in Sydney's inner-west on April 6.

Baroness Shirley Williams has died aged 90. The peer served in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan before leaving the party to form the SDP in 1981.

The embattled Queensland MP, 54, has been disendorsed by the state's Liberal National Party after being accused of - and admitting to - harassing two of his female constituents.

Gangs of youths have wreaked havoc on Sydney's Royal Easter Show after clashing with police, kicking security guards and brawling in front of small children.

The president on Monday named Tucson, Arizona Police Chief Chris Magnus to be commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. Magnus, 60, is a staunch Trump critic.

Police believed they were dealing with a real-life Harry Potter when they rescued a woman who claimed to be held captive as a slave for eight years, a court has heard. 

The incident unfolded as police conducted a drug operation in Neutral Bay, on the Lower North Shore, at about 4.20pm on Monday.

Christopher Fowler, 54, was last seen around a communal fire at a camping ground on Playground Road in Bendoc - a small Victorian town near the NSW border - about 11am on Saturday.

An alleged brutal attack by inmates which sent Brisbane correctional officers to hospital 'could have been avoided' a Queensland prison officers union has said.

A Gold Coast dad was fined $1,000 after sending pornographic images to his 14-year-old son in an attempt to bond with the teenager following his divorce.

The MP for Hughes in south Sydney, who resigned from the Liberal Party in February wants to stop pubs, restaurants and footy stadiums from requiring proof of vaccination.