Former Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames who is back on television helping host a spin-off of the long-running show.

Former Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames is back on television helping host a spin-off of the long-running show.

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Peter Kay fraudster is sought by police

Police have again appealed for help in finding a fraudster who pretended to be the brother of comedian Peter Kay.

Wainwright says: 'My greatest regret is not being nicer to my mother. I could have been a better daughter.'

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BBC's freelance stars' estimated earnings

The Deloitte review found the BBC pays £150,000 or more a year to 124 stars using public service companies.

BBC forces stars to give up freelance deals due to tax-dodge perception

Corporation to register 131 on-air presenters as staff in change to pay policy after review

Fiona Bruce had to deal with several technical glitches

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Always keen to find something wrong with both the Olympics and the BBC, the media have their first victim: the corporations' Stratford news studio.

Simon Kelner: I'm not ready for my life to get a digital de-cluttering

We can be forgiven for feeling confused. One minute we're being encouraged by various television programmes that, among the old rubbish we keep in the attic, we may have items we can turn into cash. And the next minute, we are being advised to de-clutter our lives, or more specifically our houses.

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Jacqui Hames broke down in tears as she explained the 'fallout' from the surveillance

NOTW 'spied on detectives for suspect in murder case'

The News of the World tried to intimidate police detectives by placing them under surveillance in order to "subvert" a murder investigation whose key suspect had financial links to the Sunday tabloid, the Leveson Inquiry into the press and the police heard yesterday.

Fiona Reynolds: 'It's thanks to the National Trust that Britain doesn't look like New Jersey'

The overhaul of UK planning laws has one big opponent – and her four million members, writes Michael McCarthy

i Editor's Letter: Hiding the tears

Silly string sprayed at Fiona Bruce

Two men were arrested and fined after spraying the newsreader and television presenter Fiona Bruce with aerosol string during filming of an episode of the Antiques Roadshow.

Two fined for Bruce aerosol attack

Two men were arrested and fined after spraying newsreader and television presenter Fiona Bruce with aerosol string during filming of an episode of the Antiques Roadshow, it emerged today.

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