Celebrity how we metLife and styleCrime writer McDermid, 67, kept seeing geography professor Sharp, 53, at literary events. They eventually had a drink at the bar in 2013 and now live together in Edinburgh
In February 2013, crime writer Val McDermid was invited to speak at the University of Oxford. “It was at my old college of St Hilda’s,” she says. When she spotted she had been tagged on Twitter by an attendee, she felt nervous. Read More...
TV reviewUS televisionReviewJames Marsden plays himself in an unusual mockumentary series that places a real person in the middle of a made-up trial with middling results
With the head of a hidden-camera prank show, the heart of a workplace sitcom, and the body of a true crime documentary, the boundary-blurring new comedy Jury Duty makes for an odd chimera of genres.
‘I love playing the ass’ – James Marsden on Cyclops, Sonic and his new ultimate prank showRead moreThe original series released by Freevee (the Amazon-owned streaming platform formerly known as IMDb TV) follows a court case from start to finish, its proceedings turned into farce by a boneheaded defendant, a bumbling lawyer, a bailiff at the end of her rope, and a boxful of kooky jurors. Read More...
Violence against women and girls This article is more than 6 months oldMan who murdered his wife and two young children in Kettering jailed for lifeThis article is more than 6 months oldSaju Chelavalel strangled Anju Asok, 35, their son, six, and daughter, four, while ‘fuelled by alcohol’ last year
A man who strangled his wife and their two young children while drunk, and was then shot by police with a stun gun after holding a knife to his own throat, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 40 years. Read More...