During her career, actor Dame Maggie Smith shone in roles as varied as a maverick schoolteacher, a witch in the Harry Potter film series, and Downton Abbey’s Dowager Countess of Grantham, a part which ...

A murder-accused father deliberately drove into a motorcyclist who was in a high-speed chase with his son, causing brain damage and a severed spinal cord, a court has heard.

See the movies and TV shows Dame Maggie Smith has appeared in from Harry Potter and Downton Abbey to Nanny McPhee and Sister Act.

World Rugby and Gilbert have unveiled the official ball for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, exactly one year before the tournament’s ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told world leaders at the UN that his nation will “continue degrading Hezbollah ...

Marten van Riel says he feels refreshed by the prospect of T100 glory and a longer race distance which he believes plays to his strengths ...

Joseph Eubank has been cleared of raping a teenage girl on Brighton beach. Mr Eubank, 27, of Hove, East Sussex, was acquitted of two counts of rape of a 16-year-old girl by a jury after several hours ...

Hugh Bonneville and Sir Keir Starmer are among those to have paid tribute to Dame Maggie Smith after it was announced she had died aged 89.

THE international duo of Cathryn Craig and Brian Willoughby will be in concert at Otley Folk Club, The Black Horse, 2 Westgate, LS21 3AS ...

Dame Maggie Smith won a best actress Oscar in 1970 but found an even wider profile in the last years of her career.

Manchester City midfielder Rodri has been ruled out for the rest of the season, manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed. The club have now learned the influential Spain international suffered anterior ...

A jury has begin deliberating on verdicts in the trial of a youth accused of killing a 16-year-old boy in London’s Primrose Hill last New Year’s Eve. The 17-year-old fatally stabbed Harry Pitman in ...