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Leave It To Beaver actor Ken Osmond who played troublemaker Eddie Haskell for six seasons before becoming a police officer in LA is dead at age 76 He was best known for starring on Leave It To Beaver from 1957 until 1962 Osmond played troublemaker Eddie Haskell who had a sly side to him The … Read more
Ex-ITN reporter Ken Rees dies of cancer aged 76 as colleagues pay tribute to 6ft 5in television news ‘legend’ who made his name covering the Falklands campaign and Gulf War Ken Rees was a familiar face on television throughout the 1980s and 1990s He reported from across the world covering stories including civil war in Beirut … Read more
Ken McCallum has been appointed as the new director general of MI5, succeeding Sir Andrew Parker, who retires in April. McCallum, whose appointment was announced by interior minister Priti Patel, has worked for MI5 for almost 25 years. McCallum, a career spy led the response to the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei … Read more
Coronation Street legend Ken Morley has claimed that he narrowly escaped death after contracting coronavirus a year ago. The veteran actor, 77, is convinced he caught an early strain of the killer bug over a year ago, with his illness leaving him hospitalised for three days. Ken, who played Reg Holdsworth in the ITV soap until … Read more
Born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, where Bill Roache’s father was the village GP, his early schooling was near his home, at the Rudolph Steiner School run on the principles of the Austrian philosopher, sparking his lifelong interest in astrology and the paranormal. He next went to Rydal School, a boarding school in North Wales, well away … Read more
An icy morning and an early summons to Downing Street. The Prime Minister wished to lay out his plans to take on the coronavirus outbreak. There had been suggestions lately that Boris Johnson was not giving the escalating crisis due attention. Worse, that he was lying ‘doggo’, hoping it would all blow over. Time, then, … Read more