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Robert Baudin printed around $2 million in fake US notes. When he (eventually) faced court, he took to the air and threatened to crash into Sydney Harbour.

There's a host of programmes from the ATV and ITC vaults as well as other ITV classics... Some programmes haven't seen the light of day since their original transmission in the sixties, while many others haven't been seen rerun for many years. The channel also mixes archive classics that always prove a hit when given

BBC Director-General Tim Davie leads the tributes... The BBC has announced the death of Sir Paul Fox who has died at the age of 98. Paul Leonard Fox was born on 27 October 1925. He was educated in Bournemouth and served in the Parachute Regiment in the 1940s. He moved into television with the Beeb

London is a city with a long, dynamic history. In the modern day, it stands as a vibrant hub for many people and walks of life.

It has been at least two minutes since a couple of celebrities went on a licence fee-funded jolly, so welcome back Anton and Giovanni’s Adventures…

<strong>Other lives:</strong> Producer and director of TV shows such as Whicker’s World, who became a campaigner for those living with dementia

Michael Blakstad will perhaps be best remembered for the popular science programme Tomorrow’s World, which he edited for a number of years.

The story reads a little like a Graham Greene novel reimagined for the Narcos audience. The protagonist looks like John Waters playing Leslie Phillips playing Alan Whicker. The setting’s exotic, the supporting cast extraordinary, the details bizarre. But for Colin Armstrong, the ordeal of the past four days must have felt all too real, and all too scary.

The details of Colin Armstrong’s four-day ordeal could have been lifted from the pages of a bestselling thriller, but it was all too real

"Elizabeth Taylor enjoyed a late flowering of activity and relevance... an encouraging signpost for Britney Spears, perhaps, showing the possibility of remaking oneself after the first flush of career success"