Hundreds packed into Scunthorpe's Woodland's Crematorium this afternoon to remember a teenager who died after taking the controversial legal high mephedrone.Nick Smith died earlier this month after taking the drug ...

A folk guitarist in Coventry died at the weekend just minutes after leaving the stage at a reunion show.Dave Bennett, a stalwart of the local folk scene, had just finished ...

An experienced mountain rescuer died after a fall in Snowdonia last April because of a underlying heart condition.An inquest heard that John Evans, 54, would have survived his 200ft fall ...

Readers of a certain age will be sad to hear that actor Robin Davies, one of the stars of Catweazle, has died.Davies, who played teenager ‘Carrot’ in the hit children’s ...

Poet and gardener Alice Oswald has received the inaugural Ted Hughes Award for new poetry.She won the £5,000 prize for the nature collection Weeds and Wild Flowers.Founder of the award ...

Who would believe that on the last day of March I'd be waking up to a couple of inches of snow! The poor rabbits! They've been losing their thick Winter ...

What's that old French phrase, plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose - basically shorthand for things just stay the same. A bit like the last 65 years in ...

The portrayal of June Havoc on-stage in the musical Gypsy – about the life of her sister Louise, aka burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee – paints her as a sad ...

Jazz guitar virtuoso Herb Ellis has died at his home in LA.He played with many of the greats, including Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, but was best known ...

An exciting new production of the classic George Orwell novel 1984 comes to Derby next month.Paper Zoo theatre company is bringing a modern re-working of the unsettling story created 60 ...

As you know, I was a bit impressed with our boy last night. But don't take my word for the fact that he was good. He didn't have quite so ...

I am confined to the Blackberry so won't be writing any long analysis of the Chancellors' debate on Channel 4 right now. I admit to real nerves before it started. ...

Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Dr Daina Taimina (A K Peters) won the Bookseller's 2009 Diagram Prize. The mathematic crocheting book received 42% of the votes cast. Here is ...

Roger Daltrey believes he is the right man to co-write a long-awaited biopic of Keith Moon.The Who singer is currently searching for a writer to collaborate with him on a ...

The case of a policeman killed in a hit-and-run incident in Stockport will feature on the BBC’s Crimewatch.PC Mike Silcock was hit by a BMW after leaving the Frog and ...

Natasha Richardson’s final acting role will reach cinemas this August.The actress, who died a year ago aged 45, recorded parts for the documentary film The Wildest Dream.It recounts the story ...

We launched a new homepage on our flagship site OmniFootball at the weekend which will make it easier for fans of the Premiership, Championship and SPL to find blog posts ...

I’m giving up smoking. It shouldn’t be hard as, truth be told, I’ve only smoked about two dozen cigarettes* in my life. But the two I had on Saturday night ...

A popular gardening writer in the Sunday Telegraph and Guardian newspapers has died.Elspeth Thompson passed away last Thursday (25 March) her husband Frank says. She was just 48 years old.She ...

A ban on cars is being considered at the Florida beach where a four-year-old British girl was run over and killed.Ellie Bland, from Nottingham, was struck by a car as ...