She became known in the Nineties as the pouting 'Posh' popstar.

Some areas have over half of those aged 10 to 12 fully immunised

She said the arts must make the case for themselves as a "commodity". How her audience prevented themselves from pelting her with coffee cups, I just don't know.

An online discussion about the creepiest things children say to their parents has become an unlikely internet hit with more than 10,000 comments being posted

Fight game's supreme craftsman is back after a prison term to open his account in $200m deal

Soldier detained 'at gunpoint' over claims he had leaked information

An heir-raising account of Tudor England

One of the residents of Chelsea's illustrious Cheyne Walk, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, George Eliot and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Anglo-French poet, essayist and historian Hilaire Belloc was born in 1870, and famously said: "When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."

Children at private schools face the greatest risk from the measles outbreak and could pose a health threat to the rest of the population, a leading doctor has warned.

Badger cull protest enlists squatter help

'I am the finest swordsman in England'

The first paperback of Charles M Schultz's 'Peanuts' appeared in 1952, though the comic strip had been nationally syndicated a couple of years before that. I started reading 'Peanuts' at six or seven, a contemporary of its characters, and followed it for the next 50 years.

The controversial rape investigation team at Scotland Yard is facing a major reorganisation and may change its name after a string of controversies.

At one point she lived on the £20 a week she could make translating bodice-rippers from the French