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Advertisement Helen McCrory swore friends to secrecy as she dealt 'heroically' with her gruelling cancer treatment while continuing to carry out charity work just weeks before her death aged 52, a colleague revealed today.  Carrie Cracknell, who directed Helen McCrory in a stage production of Medea, said the actress wanted to keep her illness secret to avoid it becoming a focus over her professional life and philanthropy.   The Peaky Blinders and Harry Potter star appeared on TV to promote the Prince's Trust only six weeks before her death, and shared her secret struggle with 'very, very f...

She also portrayed Cherie Blair in both 2006’s The Queen and 2010’s The Special Relationship, royal and political dramas written by The Crown’s Peter Morgan. Elsewhere, she appeared as Narcissa Malfoy, mother of Draco, in the final three Harry Potter films. McCrory was born in Paddington, London, in August 1968 to a Welsh mother and Scottish-born father, the eldest of three children. Helen McCrory at the BFI London Film Festival (Matt Crossick/PA) She attended school in Hertfordshire, then spent a year living in Italy, before returning to London to study acting at the Drama Centre. In 1...

Rating: Rating: Life wasn’t so different a couple of hundred years ago. Sunseekers rushed to the beach on the first warm day in spring — and because bathing costumes hadn’t been invented, they all went skinny-dipping. There were riots on the streets of Bristol, then as now, with mounted charges to control a mob intent on burning carriages and kicking in windows. And the older generation complained it was becoming impossible to hold a conversation with a young person, because they all had their noses buried in some new-fangled device, reading instead of talking. The smartphone of the d...

by Juno Daily on 22.01.2021 at 16:15pm The top layer of this week’s album cake sliced off with pristine accuracy by Juno Daily’s reviews team ALBUM OF THE WEEK In 1995, with all that jungle being banded about, the world needed a break. Slap-bang in the middle of the most drooled-over decade in dance music history, it was a milestone year for smooth, emotive electronic music. In 1995 new jack swing – which sounded like the erotic, precursory love-child of UK garage and R’n’B – culminated with Montell Jordan’s ‘This Is How We Do It’ topping the US Billboard. The ne...

Has any story of grief in this terrible Covid year been quite so harrowing as that of La'Troya Hall? Has any tale brought home so heart-stoppingly the human cost of our failure to treat cancer patients as we should have during the pandemic? Yesterday in the Mail, La'Troya told of her husband Sherwin's death from cancer. 'He would almost certainly still be here today . . . if the NHS had not prioritised Covid above all else,' she said. It was February, and they were 'so, so happy', before he felt an excruciating pain in his groin. He visited A&E 13 times, begging for a scan.