A student who ‘predicted’ the exams crisis in an award-winning piece of writing she penned last year says she now feels like she has ‘fallen into her own story’. Jessica Johnson, 18, from Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, won an Orwell Youth Prize Senior award for her dystopian story A Band Apart in 2019. It was inspired … Read more
Where the beach has no gates! Bono and his wife Ali Hewson complain that a fence erected near a Victorian tearoom redevelopment is blocking access to the strand in front of their luxury seafront home Ali Hewson, 59, and her husband Bono, 60, live near Killiney beach in Ireland The mother-of-four is at the centre of … Read more
James Bond bosses are reportedly planning a spin-off based on the spy’s recently-discovered daughter, penned by Killing Eve’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Sources claimed bosses have approached Phoebe to pen a franchise documenting how the offspring of 007 becomes an agent herself. It comes following reports that Bond is set to to have daughter in the long-awaited … Read more
The beautiful mansion where author Victor Hugo wrote Les Misérables has re-opened after a stunning £3.8million revamp. Hauteville House in Guernsey had been closed for 18 months while being extensively restored to its former glory. And yesterday, the home, which is now a museum, finally opened to the public once again. Inside the restored Hauteville … Read more