The trouble with Maggie Smith is that she’s watchable in everything and worked like a trouper from the age of 17. open image in gallery ‘I’ve always wanted to use that spell!’ Maggie Smith in ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ By the late Seventies and early Eighties, Smith was a national treasure, juggling blissfully camp mainstream movies …
A greedy conwoman who drove to court in a Mercedes bought off the back of her elderly victims' life of hard work has swapped it for a seat in a prison van to jail. Hayley Philpot, 29, blew Berwyn and Keith Bennett's life savings on the flash car, and the kind of posh dinners and fancy clothes which the hard-working …
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A new island of hope rising from the Indian Ocean Hassan Mohamed The new, artificial island of Hulhumalé was built using millions of cubic metres of sand pumped from the seabed The modern island of Hulhumale is taking shape 8km off the north-east coast of Malé island in the Maldives in direct response to the threat posed by inexorably rising …
