Hugh Bonneville and Sir Keir Starmer are among those to have paid tribute to Dame Maggie Smith after it was announced she had died aged 89.

Dame Maggie Smith won a best actress Oscar in 1970 but found an even wider profile in the last years of her career.

Dame Maggie won over a whole new generation of fans when she played Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter films. In 2010 she was central to the success of ITV series Downton Abbey, in her ...

CUMBRIA Police are appealing for the public’s help in locating 16-year-old Coral Wallace from Kendal. She was last seen in the early hours of this morning (September 27) on Sedbergh Drive, Kendal.

New York City’s embattled and indicted mayor Eric Adams has arrived at a federal courthouse to be arraigned on charges that he accepted illegal campaign contributions and free overseas trips from ...

A jury has begin deliberating on verdicts in the trial of a youth accused of killing a 16-year-old boy in London’s Primrose Hill last New Year’s Eve. The 17-year-old fatally stabbed Harry Pitman in ...

The British star, known for prominent roles in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, as well as her Academy Award-winning performance in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, died in hospital on Friday morning, ...

A new era has begun for French women’s rugby with a player-led call to expand the national team’s leadership group ...

Lucy Dinnen’s path to an Australia cap has been slowed by army commitments, malaria, Covid postponements and even a pregnancy but after 10 ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his nation’s response to the October 7 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel.

Newcastle chief executive Darren Eales will step down from his position after being diagnosed with a chronic form of blood cancer, the Premier League club have announced. The 52-year-old Eales, who ...

Smith was appointed a CBE in the 1970 New Year Honours and was made a Dame (DBE) in the 1990 New Year Honours for services to the performing arts. Her death was announced by her sons Chris Larkin and ...