With growing concern over the plight of Britain’s public lavatories, new show could create a ’cause celebre’. Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Winterwatch have all been popular hits for the BBC – imparting fascinating and little-known facts about the weather, wildlife, flowers and trees. The shows’ proven format (of going on for day-after-day-after-day – for what seems like forever), is now being applied to a new variation: Toiletwatch. Several hidden cameras will be installed in a busy public lavatory at an undisclosed location.  According to the BBC’s press...

Gardeners are incredulous at news that the presenter faces multiple charges brought by French Riot Police. The darling of middle England, 67 year old Titchmarsh first came to fame through Gardeners’ World and Ground Force, before ploughing another successful furrow as a novelist. ‘We just can’t take it in’ said Edna Hilton, President of the Harrogate Gardeners’ Guild. ‘He was the Guest of Honour at our Summer Fete in 2012 – and was the perfect gentleman’. Details are still sketchy, but it appears that Titchmarsh was one of a crowd of drunken England...

Britain’s only remaining airworthy Vulcan – XH558 – has won a last-minute reprieve from permanent grounding. Top executives at Warner Brothers have committed $50 million to keep the aircraft flying until Autumn 2019, when filming is due to wrap on ‘Harry Potter and the Vulcan Bomber’. Author J.K. Rowling said: ‘It will be wonderful to see ‘The Tin Triangle’ flying again, and we hope that her pilots Martin and Kev will enter into the spirit by wearing costumes from the other films during the action sequences’. The plot of this ninth outing for the...

Newly-released court papers reveal the band’s determination that people listen to Floyd albums in full. Long before the days of the internet and rows over whether individual tracks could be downloaded, Pink Floyd were already hot on the heels of their less committed fans. In April 1973, the band attempted to sue a student at NYU who had confided to a friend that he had only listened to the first half of ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ before going to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. Word of the incident soon reached executives at Capitol Records, and they agreed with the band to ‘sue...

The legendary Scottish actor scores ‘nul points’ in James Bond impression contest. Sean Connery suffered a crushing defeat yesterday – in a competition to find Britain’s best Sean Connery impersonator. Using a false name, he entered the charity radio phone-in, in which real James Bond actors competed anonymously against members of the public. Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig and George Lazenby all comfortably won their respective rounds, and went through to the sudden death final. But Connery came last in his heat, in which Derek Mulgyre (a welder from...