Ronnie Le Drew became besotted with Valerie Heberdent - who handled George - over the course of the show's staggering 1,071 episodes, he told an East London audience.

Next week, the Treasury will unveil the biggest public sector pay rise for six years, at an estimated cost of £2 billion, with pay rises for teachers, police officers and the armed services.

Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt has unveiled a space programme and announced 'the sky is no longer the limit' for the RAF.

Winemaker Kieron Atkinson (pictured), who runs the vineyard at Renishaw Hall near Sheffield, said milder temperatures had led to the rapid expansion of the English wine industry.

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Harrowing footage showed screaming spectators, many of them teenagers, trying to help badly wounded victims after they were 'sent flying' in the crash in Stevenage.

Knife crime offences recorded by police in England and Wales hit a record high in 2018/19, up 8% on the previous year, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics.

Hashem Abedi is the brother of Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people and wounded hundreds more when he detonated a nail bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017.

James Huang Zheng, 41, flew into a drunken rage in the waiting area of Xian airport where he scolded a 13-year-old boy for taking one of the seats the musician had supposedly been saving for his family.

Zara is one of the few high street labels to not use plastic bags. The Spanish company has also committed to eliminating single-use plastic from its outlets by 2023.

Of UK universities who provided figures, Cambridge, Birmingham and the University of East Anglia had the highest number over the last five years, new figures have revealed.

Mick Virgo, 81, was arrested after staff found the body of Doreen, 89. A post-mortem examination showed she died from compression of the neck.

Bernadette Wren, head of clinical psychology at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust which runs the service in London, warned of a major increase in the trend.

Chloe Haines, 25, has been hit with a bill for £85,000 by Jet2 over her 'extremely disruptive behaviour' on a flight from Stansted to Turkey when she allegedly tried to 'storm the cockpit'.

Those who know the pupil - named as Sam Connor - claim he was being bullied at his Roman Catholic comprehensive in Chertsey, Surrey.

Fred, was a World War II veteran who later served in the police force. He was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2016.

Strikes at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted threaten to wreak havoc over the summer holidays, while pilots with British Airways, who operate at 14 UK airports, are also threatening strikes.

One Facebook executive admitted on Inside The Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year, which aired in the UK tonight, that she had not realised how hard it would be to tackle online abuse.

The three-time Formula One world champion said his wife hardly had any memories left and would not remember that they went to the British Grand Prix at Silverstone last weekend.

Police said they have opened a murder investigation after Mark Batchelor was gunned down as he was driving into his home in Olivedale, Johannesburg at around 6pm.

The report was conducted by Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston, the incoming Chief of the Air Staff. It was commissioned in April after accusations of sexual harassment were put against the Army.

Dan Abbott was filming marine life around the coast with biologist Lizzie Daly, host of BBC Earth. The duo went for a dip off the coast of Falmouth, Cornwall, and spotted the massive jellyfish.

Stephanie Nelson, 30, was found with £1.5m of high purity cocaine in her car. Her Instagram shows the beauty therapist from Cheshire lived a life of luxury. She was jailed for 10 years.

Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson have both attacked Donald Trump after tweets he sent sparked a racism row. Mr Hunt described the 'go back home' remarks as 'utterly appalling'.

Cyber attacks launched by criminals pretending to be taxmen have declined by 58 per cent in a year. Experts say fraudsters are giving up because the security services are effective at blocking them.

Fans believe cricket slumped in popularity after test matches were taken off the list of so-called 'crown jewel' sports events.

Around one in ten is in a role with a 'high potential' for automation such as social care, retail and hospitality. Pictured: A handout image from the British think tank Institute for Public Policy Research.

Georgette Mulheir has now left her role as Lumos's £160k-a-year CEO. Rowling set up the charity after she read a newspaper article about children in orphanages in caged beds.

Sgt Ali Livingstone was forced to quit after suffering from PTSD. The 36-year-old was nicknamed Robocop by colleagues for his prolific arrest record.

In another indictment of 'soft justice' Britain, analysis of Ministry of Justice data shows the average sentence last year for causing death by dangerous driving was five years and three months.

The unravelling of a multi-million dollar drug ring run by Codie Peter Cowan (pictured) has revealed the thirst for drugs over public holiday weekends in some of Sydney's most affluent suburbs.

Manfred Rudhart, chief executive of British Northern Rail's owner Arriva, saw his pay boosted from £1.08million to £1.34million last year.

At present so-called 'lifers' are supervised and forced to attend regular meetings with probation officers when freed on licence after completing their minimum jail sentence in the UK.

Gender-neutral uniform will be taking off at British Airways to mark the firm's centenary celebrations. Designer Ozwald Boateng has revealed the plan to make uniform unisex to appeal to women.

Manchester City star Riyad Mahrez curled in an injury-time free-kick to send Algeria into the final, prompting wild celebrations as fans set off fireworks on Blackstock Road, in Highbury.

Day 12 of the Wimbledon 2019 Championships in London's leafyest suburb - and three celebrity guests in particular turned heads as they made their way into the grounds Saturday lunchtime.