From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout: This week’s top podcasts

From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout, Castaway and The Coronavirus Podcast, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 Table Manners  Every week on this big-hearted podcast, singer Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie invite a celebrity guest … Read more

From Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian to Big Little Lies: The best on demand TV to watch this week

DISNEY + The Mandalorian ‘Is it true that you guys never take off your helmets?’ a prisoner asks his captor, the eponymous Mandalorian in the first episode of this eight-episode Star Wars spin-off. ‘Is it true that you guys never take off your helmets?’ a prisoner asks his captor, the eponymous Mandalorian in the first episode … Read more

Angela Rippon discusses equal pay, staying fit at 75 and how she stays unflappable

Angela Rippon was responsible for one of the most memorable moments in British television history. It came in the Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special in 1976, when 20 million gawped as she emerged from behind her Nine O’Clock News desk to high-kick round the studio like an autocue Ginger Rogers. Four decades on, give or … Read more

‘Every pub is closed. As an Irishman, I can safely say this denotes the Apocalypse is truly upon us’

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 Normally, the news that I’ve just been voted 13th on the annual London Power List would bring me irrational pleasure, particularly as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle came joint 20th, which I know will really irk them both. Yet how utterly pointless and irrelevant such an ‘accolade’ seems today, as coronavirus sweeps … Read more

Summer Monteys-Fullam showcases her incredible figure in a black bikini as she self-isolates

Summer Monteys-Fullam showcases her incredible figure in a black bikini before enjoying a spot of horse-riding as she self-isolates amid coronavirus crisis By Niomi Harris For Mailonline Published: 21:51 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 21 March 2020 Summer Monteys-Fullam showcased her incredible figure in a tiny black bikini as she self-isolated amid … Read more

Transformer actress Sophia Myles’ dad dies of coronavirus as she shares heartbreaking last snap 

Transformers actress Sophia Myles’ dad dies of coronavirus as she shares heartbreaking last snap By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 21:36 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 21:36 GMT, 21 March 2020 Transformers actress Sophia Myles’ dad dies of coronavirus as she shares heartbreaking last snap.     Share or comment on this article:

Now doctors say people should be stopped from moving around within Britain ‘without delay’

Now doctors say people should be stopped from moving around within Britain ‘without delay’ and London MUST be locked down completely Six health experts warned Britain is losing a ‘very small window of opportunity’ The group of academics urged ministers to stop people moving within Britain It comes as UK coronavirus death toll surges by … Read more

Drinkers facing pub lockdown turn to digital drinking by catching up with mates on apps for a pint

Drinkers facing pub lockdown turn to digital drinking by catching up with mates on WhatsApp, Zoom and Instagram Live for a jar and a chat Brits are mourning the closure of pubs on the first weekend of lockdown Instead, many are turning to apps to enjoy a virtual drink with their friends Apps such as … Read more

Lockdowns begin across Africa as coronavirus cases rise above 1,000

Lockdowns have begun across Africa as coronavirus cases rose above 1,000. Nigeria announced it is closing airports to all incoming international flights for one month in the continent’s most populous country. Rwanda said all unnecessary movements outside the home are banned for two weeks as of midnight except for essential services such as healthcare and … Read more

Police arrest two girls, 14 and 15, for ‘assaulting a group of Chinese people’

Police arrest two girls, 14 and 15, for ‘assaulting a group of Chinese people’ wearing face masks in Southampton Two arrested over racially motivated ‘coronavirus rage’ attack at four people The incident occured on the 17th March in Vincent’s Walk, Southampton Anyone with information about this incident should call 101 or Crimestoppers and quote the following … Read more

Donald Trump won’t rule out seeking government assistance for his company

President Donald Trump won’t rule out accepting government assistance for his Trump Organization after the company closed Mar-a-Lago, fired staff, and even shut down the bars at its Washington D.C. luxury hotel in the wake of the coronavirus.  ‘I don’t know. I mean, I just don’t know what the government assistance would be for what I … Read more