Sir Stephen Fry has hailed his former co-star Tony Slattery as the “gentlest, sweetest soul” with a “deeply talented wit” following his death aged 65.

David Newton, now aged 70, of Magazine Close, Wisbech, denies murdering Una Crown at her home in Magazine Lane in the Cambridgeshire town on January 12 2013.

She had referred herself to the Prime Minister’s ethics tsar over her connections to the former prime minister of Bangladesh, her aunt.

NEW Lanark World Heritage Site is seeking "independently made films celebrating Scotland" to show at its first ever film festival.