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Updated: 29 Jan 2021, 16:48 KATIE Price's massive lifestyle transformation over the last year was kickstarted by her time on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins, according to show star Ollie Ollerton. The 42-year-old only lasted two days filming in brutal conditions on the remote Scottish island of Raasay at the tail end of 2019, but Ollie believes it was enough to give her the "kick up the a**e" she needed. 6 Ollie Ollerton believes SAS: Who Dares Wins helped transform Katie Price's lifeCredit: Channel 4 Speaking exclusively to The Sun, the former Special Forces soldier says: "I’d have loved it...

Updated: January 30, 2021, 9:55 am © Supplied Val McDermid, who is appearing at Granite Noir, has started a new quintet of novels. Legendary Scots crime writer Val McDermid has declared herself “very happy” at the casting of the lead role in a new ITV cold-case drama series set in St Andrews. But Val is keeping tight-lipped about the identity of the actress who has won the role of her young detective Karen Pirie. Adapted from Val’s acclaimed novels by Emer Kenny, the story sees a group of suspects from an old closed murder case begin dying in suspicious circumstances. She has few qualm...

IN THE midst of one of the most miserable Januarys in living memory, there has never been more of a need for a night of laughter, and the Róisín Dubh Comedy is here to deliver.

WE do like a good thriller or murder mystery in Worcestershire. It appears that local book readers like nothing more than to settle down with a novel with a twisty plot if the list of most popular library books in 2020 is anything to go by. Worcestershire County Council has issued its annual top library book list, and, as usual, it makes fascinating reading. The number one choice across the county was Lee Child’s Past Tense, one in the famous Jack Reacher series. That was borrowed a total of 443 times, closely followed by by Mark Billingham’s Their Little Secret (thriller) wit...

And old favourites kept youngsters entertained through the long weeks of lockdown. Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming was the most issued non-fiction title and while crime books and thrillers by the likes of Michael Connelly and Lee Child were the most popular adult hardbacks, Sophie Hannah – who has a base in the Cotswolds – was third with Haven’t They Grown. Hilary Mantel’s magisterial closure of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, also made the top 10. In adult paperback issues, women made up nine of the top 10, with only Mark Billingham breaking in. Bernar...