Movie characters have raised a glass ever since the opening reel. That’s because liquor is a great facilitator. Playwrights ...

Few names are more notorious in the annals of railway history than that of Lord Beeching (1913-85). As the author of the legendary Beeching Report of 1963, he was responsible for the dramatic and wide ...

Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) lives alone in a rickety Victorian house near London’s King’s Cross railway station. She rents a room to Professor Marcus (Alec Guinness), who claims to be a musician, ...

The journalist Richard Gwyn observed in the 1980s that Canadians had failed in their obvious destiny to become the prime ...

Comedian Matt Lucas has said he had to read a letter informing him he had been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “a couple of times” as he thought it may be a prank.

Author and TV host Richard Osman has said he is “absolutely thrilled” to have been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). The game show host, who writes The Thursday Murder Club ...

Our audit of Food Standards Agency (FSA) food hygiene ratings - part of a wider series unmasking the nation's dirtiest shops ...

Sir Alec Guinness’ commanding performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars secured his fame for future generations. Yet after a distinguished career as one of Britain’s greatest actors, the double-Oscar ...

Here’s The Independent ’s list of 23 secretly brilliant performances in bad films ...

The recent passing of actor Richard Roundtree may also be driving interest in two Blaxploitation Film Posters including ...

Our audit of Food Standards Agency (FSA) food hygiene ratings - part of a wider series unmasking the nation's dirtiest shops ...

TIM DUNN takes us on a journey through cinematic history - with the railway as the ultimate muse.