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  Rebus creator Ian Rankin one of star names at Manchester Literature Festival

  THE first major names who will be part of the Manchester Literature Festival have been revealed.

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  Londoner’s Diary: ‘Actors Centre must still be place to take risks’

  In today’s Diary: Sheila Hancock says that the soul of the Actors Centre must be preserved / Luke Pollard won’t miss MPs in Lycra / Milton Jones is no James Bond

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  Give rebranded Actors Centre back to actors, say Mark Rylance and others

  London venue with long history of offering training and networking has become Seven Dials Playhouse

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  Books: Dame Sheila Hancock on feeling angry as she approaches 90

  The acclaimed actress talks about her book, Old Rage, why she won't dwell on ill health and how she climbed a mountain in her eighties.

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  Could Alan Ayckbourn’s most notorious play have been written today?

  On stage, a depressive married woman is wandering her kitchen looking for ways in which to kill herself. She variously tries to jump from the window ledge, charge into a bread knife, overdose on sleeping pills, gas herself in the oven and hang herself from a light socket. At each point, she’s thwarted by people bustling in and carrying her away from her single-minded task with heedless good cheer and accidental concern. “That oven can wait. You clean it later,” she’s told, chivvied out of her pr

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  Dame Sheila Hancock on not learning from your mistakes

  The 89-year-old actress also spoke about missing her late husband, the actor John Thaw.

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  Sheila Hancock still 'feels the presence' of late husband John Thaw

  Sheila Hancock still "feels the presence" of her late husband John Thaw two decades after he died from cancer at the age of 60.

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  Timothy Spall, Anne Reid and Sheila Hancock to star in BBC true-crime drama 'The Sixth Commandment'

  The series will explore the real-life crimes of Benjamin Field.

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  Sheila Hancock is 'glad' she doesn’t have to 'bother' trying to 'please men' anymore

  Dame Sheila Hancock has told comedian Jo Brand she is “glad” that she doesn’t have to “bother” having sex anymore.

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  Gogglebox adds another big star to lineup – amid Baggs family exit

  Gogglebox has been making some big changes to its roster of cast members in recent times – but now, the Celebrity version of the show, which lands on screens next week, has added a very famous face! MORE: Gogglebox viewers devastated as fan favourite family quit show - and share surprising reason why Appearing alongside Giles Brandreth for the upcoming episodes will be Absolutely Fabulous legend Joanna Lumley. The actress, who is known and adored for her part as Patsy Stone in the iconic comedy,

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