In the past few minutes, Thames Valley police have confirmed the death of the singer George Michael. His publicist said he passed away peacefully at home. The singer, who was 53, launched his career with wham in the 1980s and continued his success as a solo performer. South Central Ambulance service attended his home in goring in south oxfordshire. Police say there were no suspicious circumstances. He was 53 and as many people will know he had launched his career with wham along with Andrew Ridgeley in the 19805 along with Andrew Ridgeley in the 1980s and went on to even greater success as a solo 1980s and went on to even greater success as a solo performer. Hes often spoken quite widely of his relationship, rather difficult relationship, rather difficult relationship, with his father, saying he had to fight his demons. Well we can speak now on the phone to the music critic for the daily telegraph, neil mccormick. Hello, neil. Hello. Goodness, what news for Christmas Day it is very sho
In the past few minutes, Thames Valley police have confirmed the death of the singer George Michael. His publicist said he passed away peacefully at home. The singer, who was 53, launched his career with wham in the 1980s and continued his success as a solo performer. South Central Ambulance service attended his home in goring in south oxfordshire. Police say there were no suspicious circumstances. He was 53 and as many people will know he had launched his career with wham along with Andrew Ridgeley in the 19805 along with Andrew Ridgeley in the 1980s and went on to even greater success as a solo 1980s and went on to even greater success as a solo performer. Hes often spoken quite widely of his relationship, rather difficult relationship, rather difficult relationship, with his father, saying he had to fight his demons. Well we can speak now on the phone to the music critic for the daily telegraph, neil mccormick. Hello, neil. Hello. Goodness, what news for Christmas Day it is very sho
In the past few minutes, Thames Valley police have confirmed the death of the singer George Michael. His publicist said he passed away peacefully at home. The singer, who was 53, launched his career with wham in the 1980s and continued his success as a solo performer. South Central Ambulance service attended his home in goring in south oxfordshire. Police say there were no suspicious circumstances. He was 53 and as many people will know he had launched his career with wham along with Andrew Ridgeley in the 19805 along with Andrew Ridgeley in the 1980s and went on to even greater success as a solo 1980s and went on to even greater success as a solo performer. Hes often spoken quite widely of his relationship, rather difficult relationship, rather difficult relationship, with his father, saying he had to fight his demons. Well we can speak now on the phone to the music critic for the daily telegraph, neil mccormick. Hello, neil. Hello. Goodness, what news for Christmas Day it is very sho
Carrie fisher, the actress, debbie reynolds, has written on social media that her daughters in a stable condition in an la hospital, on friday the actress suffered Heart Problems on a flight from london the united states. Now on bbc news, mark kermode takes a look back at the big releases of the year, sorting out the crackers from the turkeys in this review 2016 the in film. Hello and welcome to this review of the year in film. Im mark kermode, and were here at the Cinema Museum in south london where for the next half now we will be looking back at some of the best Movies Released In Uk Cinemas in 2016. 2016 was a pretty tumultuous year, what with the brexit vote injune, and the results of the American Election in november proving that the unexpected really can happen. In the world of politics, uncertainty can be alarming. When it comes to movies, it is the expected which really makes it all worthwhile. While the naysayers can blame that movies today are just an endless slew of sequels
Peace between the israelis and the palestinians. Pope francis. Wholl be weve will be looking back at royal year later. The queen has missed her annual Christmas Day visit to church because of a heavy cold. Other members of the royal family including the Duke Of Edinburgh attended the service at sandringham without her. In her traditional christmas broadcast, the queen focussed on the theme of inspiration. Our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, reports. She recalled that this had been the year of her 90th birthday and paid tribute to the inspiring work of charities with which she has been associated. And she said much more could be achieved globally by acting with others. It is understandable that we sometimes think the worlds problems are so big that we can do little to help. On our own, we cannot end wars will wipe out injustice. But the humility and impact of thousands of small act of goodness can be bigger than we imagined. Her own life, she said, had been guided by the inspiri