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Elaine Hugh-Jones: started writing each song by experimenting at the piano with random notes and musical fragments Elaine Hugh-Jones,  who has died aged 93, was a pianist and composer known for her powerful yet sensitive and tuneful songs; she was also a stalwart of BBC radio and television, working as official accompanist on countless programmes from the postwar years until 1983. Of her several song cycles the best known are the seven Walter de la Mare Songs, written between 1966 and 1988, which blend the French influence of Gabriel Fauré with the English romanticism she inherited from he...

1 The death of my father MY father was originally a Cistercian monk. He decided to leave the monastery though, and worked in a jeweller’s shop in Nottingham. This was where he met my mother, through the Catholic church in the city. She was working in Nottingham as a teacher, having moved from her home town of Montrose. My childhood was actually pretty idyllic. I have a brother, Christopher, and a sister, Mary Jane, and the five of us had a good life together. We moved to Chepstow in South Wales. That had been a huge change because we moved from a house with a garden to a shop that my ...

A new vaccine centre in Basingstoke is the cream of the crop after giving Alan Titchmarsh his Covid vaccine. The TV gardener and broadcaster was one of the first to be vaccinated at Basingstoke Fire Station, which opened today. His vaccine was given by firefighter Ross Turner, who is one of the many volunteering to give the jab. Basingstoke Fire Station was announced as a vaccine hub in January, with the station adapted to provide vaccinations to the public while also continuing to operate as an emergency services’ facility. It opened today, February 1, and will be operating seven d...

Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 13.19 EST Philip Martin, who has died aged 82, was a writer whose work for television synthesised gritty, often bleak and sometimes violent subjects with sly, offbeat humour and an innovative approach to the medium. His groundbreaking series Gangsters (1976-78) began as a one-off Play for Today on BBC1, shot on location in Birmingham, where Martin had embedded himself for weeks in order to authentically capture the city’s underbelly. A revenge story, it had a backdrop of seedy strip clubs and dodgy business deals as Maurice Colbourne, playing the anti-hero Jo...

Alan revealed Love Your Weekend was able to continue filming throughout lockdown (Image: ITV) READ MORE And while he liked the original All Creatures Great and Small show, he admitted the 2020 reboot was just as good. "I was dubious when this series came along, but they have absolutely nailed it," he said before adding what has been keeping him entertained over lockdown as the winter months bring with them the bitterly cold weather. "I tend to watch TV that’s relatively undemanding, but I enjoyed BBC1’s thriller Roadkill – I’d watch Hugh Laurie read the telephone directory. Rewind to ...