Jill Morrell News Today

FRIENDS of British journalist John McCarthy yesterday launched a new

The Royal Box is usually occupied by members of the royal family, celebrities and public figures

The stage is set, the lights are dimmed, and the air is buzzing with anticipation as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe returns with a spectacular lineup of musicals at theSpaceUK.

After This Plane Has Landed at Moseley's Dark Horse centres on the story of hostage John McCarthy and his relationship with Judy Morrell

Report on hostage diplomacy attacks handling of Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori cases and criticises Johnson and Truss

Happily ever after is much harder to achieve in real life than it is in the storybooks: it will take patience and love

On March 16, 1986 a young television journalist named John McCarthy set off for a month’s assignment for Worldwide Television News (WTN) in the divided city of Beirut.  At Heathrow he reassured his tearful girlfriend Jill Morrell: ‘It’s only a month, Jilly.’ They were planning to buy a house and get married. Soon after John arrived in Beirut, two British teachers — Leigh Douglas and Philip Padfield — and an Irish teacher named Brian Keenan were kidnapped.  The British ambassador u...