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Chatting with Tamsin Greig over an oat milk latte in a smart hotel feels incongruous hours after watching her maim another woman in a spittle-flecked, profanity-spewing rage. The actress, 57, is known for her versatility: a beadily ironic presence in sitcoms such as Episodes, Black Books and Friday Night Dinner; a much-garlanded classical stage actress for the RSC and the first female Malvolio in Twelfth Night at the National; and the woman who's played Debbie Aldridge in The Archers, on and off, since 1991. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Guy Ritchie's eyes narrow in laughter as he admits to his obsession with barbecues - owning more than 30. Always one in his car, five in his London house, plus two clay ovens. 'I adore them. There's just something about them,' he says, and his face creases in mildly embarrassed hilarity, mostly at himself. 'I'm a caveman in many ways - going under the heading, "likes to cook raw steak on a barbecue".' But a feminine side also pops out. 'I'm very into my interiors and my textiles,' he confesses. Hang on, though, isn't 'gangster cool' almost his trademark in all those movies - Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Rocknrolla and even Sherlock Holmes? 'It is, but I'm also a bit of a pussycat,' he adds with a grin. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WITH a portrait of Churchill staring down at her from the wall of her Commons office, Theresa May does not have to look far for inspiration as she faces her own day of destiny. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bryan Ferry is talking about the moment his voice disappeared. Minutes before he was due in front of 5,000 people at the Royal Albert Hall, all waiting to hear him sing. 'I went to sound-check, and was barely croaking. The doctor was called and said I couldn't do the show. It was a terrible stress because you want to do it, but can't...' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Guy Ritchie's eyes narrow in laughter as he admits to his obsession with barbecues - owning more than 30. Always one in his car, five in his London house, plus two clay ovens. 'I adore them. There's just something about them,' he says, and his face creases in mildly embarrassed hilarity, mostly at himself. 'I'm a caveman in many ways - going under the heading, "likes to cook raw steak on a barbecue."' But a feminine side also pops out. 'I'm very into my interiors and my textiles,' he confesses. Hang on, though, isn't 'gangster cool' almost his trademark in all those movies - Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Rocknrolla and even Sherlock Holmes? 'It is, but I'm also a bit of a pussycat,' he adds with a grin. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WITH a portrait of Churchill staring down at her from the wall of her Commons office, Theresa May does not have to look far for inspiration as she faces her own day of destiny. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's not exactly rock 'n' roll, but the woman who really changed Sting's life - sorry, Trudie - was the Queen Mother. Young Gordon Sumner, dressed in his Sunday best almost 50 years ago, was mesmerised as her Rolls-Royce swished past the front door of his street in Wallsend, North Tyneside. The Sumners were poor, working-class Geordies; his parents Audrey, a hairdresser, and Ernie, a milkman. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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AFTER 11 years, the fairytale marriage is over in all but name: Charles and Diana are to separate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE GREAT American writer Scott Fitzgerald encapsulated it all when he said 'The rich are different'. The very, very rich are even more different. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE GREAT American writer Scott Fitzgerald encapsulated it all when he said 'The rich are different'. The very, very rich are even more different. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PRINCE PHILIP entered the nuclear debate yesterday by backing the bomb. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PRINCE PHILIP entered the nuclear debate yesterday by backing the bomb. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HE WAS one of the greatest British artists of the past century — but as a brilliant new biography reveals, Lucian Freud had a personal life as colourful as it was turbulent. On Saturday, our first extract told how his sexual magnetism helped him seduce as many as 500 lovers. Today, we reveal how those affairs gave rise to up to 30 children — some damaged for life by the father whose love they hungered for ... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HE WAS one of the greatest British artists of the past century — but as a brilliant new biography reveals, Lucian Freud had a personal life as colourful as it was turbulent. On Saturday, our first extract told how his sexual magnetism helped him seduce as many as 500 lovers. Today, we reveal how those affairs gave rise to up to 30 children — some damaged for life by the father whose love they hungered for ... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THROUGHOUT the last decade of his life, Lucian Freud and I met regularly for breakfast. And it was during our many conversations over the table at Clarke's restaurant just a few doors down from the painter's West London home in Kensington Church Street that this obsessively private man gradually opened up. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ANDREW Lloyd Webber knows a thing or two about theatrical surprises but when Frankie Howerd gave him a lovebite he was caught completely unawares. 'It did rather take my breath away,' he says, sitting quietly in the foyer cafe of one of his London theatres. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ANDREW Lloyd Webber knows a thing or two about theatrical surprises but when Frankie Howerd gave him a lovebite he was caught completely unawares. 'It did rather take my breath away,' he says, sitting quietly in the foyer cafe of one of his London theatres. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PHILIP HAMMOND is sitting in No11 Downing Street beneath a Cubist painting by CRW Nevinson, best known for bleak portrayals of the First World War inspired by his traumatic experience of treating wounded soldiers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PHILIP HAMMOND is sitting in No11 Downing Street beneath a Cubist painting by CRW Nevinson, best known for bleak portrayals of the First World War inspired by his traumatic experience of treating wounded soldiers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Awn rs ayo n ce ral est SINGLE brown cow wanders around the decaying mansion which was once an architectural jewel of the West Indies. The tiles are falling off and dazlect the white coral facade, once so dazzling, is rotting - victims of neglect and the salt-wind blowing from the Caribbean sea stretched out below. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A SINGLE brown cow wanders around the decaying mansion which was once an architectural jewel of the West Indies. The tiles are falling off and the white coral facade, once so dazzling, dazlect is rotting - victims of neglect and the salt-wind blowing from the Caribbean sea stretched out below. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ASINGLE brown cow wanders around the decaying mansion which was once an architectural jewel of the West Indies. The tiles are falling off and the white coral facade, once so dazzling, is rotting - victims of neglect and the salt-wind blowing from the Caribbean sea stretched out below. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TWENTY years ago when I first met Vidia he was considered the most intimidating figure in the literary world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOS EDITOR AND CLOSE FRIEND OF V S NAIPAUL TWENTY years ago when I first met Vidia he was considered the most intimidating figure in the literary world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IEXPECT you want to fire me,' were the first words that Brian Sewell ever said to me, the day I became Editor of the London Evening Standard. 'I'm prepared to go, just tell me when. I'll do whatever is needed to save the paper.' The words were uttered in his imperial cut-glass accent, a voice crystallised from the 1940s, drawnout vowels like a Duchess from another era. The paper was having financial difficulties but the last thing I wanted was to lose its most famous writer. He was, even then in 2009, an art critic who was a national institution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IEXPECT you want to fire me,' were the first words that Brian Sewell ever said to me, the day I became Editor of the London Evening Standard. 'I'm prepared to go, just tell me when. I'll do whatever is needed to save the paper.' The words were uttered in his imperial cut-glass accent, a voice crystallised from the 1940s, drawnout vowels like a Duchess from another era. The paper was having financial difficulties but the last thing I wanted was to lose its most famous writer. He was, even then in 2009, an art critic who was a national institution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AN EXTRAORDINARY cache of intimate letters by Lucian Freud, kept secret for more than 70 years, reveals for the first time details of his close relationship with the 1930s poet Stephen Spender. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SLEEVES rolled up, fist thumping the table at the back of his battle bus, David Cameron is fired up. With just days until the General Election, never has he been so pumped up. Be it panic or passion, a David Cameron Mark II has emerged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SLEEVES rolled up, fist thumping the table at the back of his battle bus, David Cameron is fired up. With just days until the General Election, never has he been so pumped up. Be it panic or passion, a David Cameron Mark II has emerged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AT 30,000ft above Cornwall, flying towards a crucial Election battleground, immaculate in suit and blue tie, it is strange to hear the Prime Minister talk about cleaning out stinking drains over Christmas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Redfern Gallery, London Until March 2 **** [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WE are miles ahead of where we were when Vern Cotter first came in back in 2014. We are playing with a lot more confidence and each and every player understands what their job is within the team. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SITTING on a mustard-coloured sofa in his No 11 study, with portraits of Gladstone and Disraeli glowering down, it seems odd to hear the Chancellor, any chancellor, utter the words 'Beer-butt chicken.' Let alone describe with glee how he stuffed a beer can up the bird's 'backside' in the Downing Street kitchen four floors above. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SCOTLAND'S bowlers won their second and third gold medals of the Games yesterday after Darren Burnett's success in the singles followed on from victory in the men's fours against England. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

COMETH the hour, cometh the Dan — Keatings of that ilk struck gold for the host nation yesterday to become Scotland's most successful Commonwealth Games gymnast of all time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SCOTLAND'S Dan Keatings won his second medal of the Games yesterday with a silver in the men's individual all-around final. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AN Auld Enemy battle. A Strictly winner and a Royal drop-in. The Hydro played host to the start of the artistic gymnastics yesterday and there was enough excitement to keep a full house rocking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BOWLS 8.45am, Kelvingrove Lawn Bowls Centre. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ON THE windswept landscape of Ayrshire, one of the bleakest unemployment blackspots in Britain, Prince Charles made the biggest and, some would say, most reckless gamble of his life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ON THE windswept landscape of Ayrshire, one of the bleakest unemployment blackspots in Britain, Prince Charles made the biggest and, some would say, most reckless gamble of his life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's not exactly rock 'n' roll, but the femme fatale who really changed Sting's life - sorry, Trudie - was the Queen Mother. Young Gordon Sumner, dressed in his Sunday best almost 50 years ago, was mesmerised as her Rolls-Royce swished past the front door of his street in Wallsend on Tyneside. The Sumners were working-class Geordies; his parents Audrey, a hairdresser, and Ernie, a milkman. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TODAY is a big day for my Edinburgh team-mate Dougie Fife, who will be making his Scotland debut, and I could not be more delighted for him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE stakes were always high: a £35 million inheritance including two grand English country estates and a 17th Century Tuscan villa of almost unmatched beauty. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS A brilliant new biography reveals, the artist Lucian Freud lived a life as colourful as it was uncompromising. Here, in our final extract we reveal how his all-consuming approach to his talent — and his love life — lasted to his dying days [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HE WAS one of the greatest British artists of the past century — but as a brilliant new biography reveals, Lucian Freud had a personal life as colourful as it was outrageous. Yesterday's extract told how he fathered up to 30 children — some damaged for life by the man whose love they hungered for. Today, we reveal how his love of gambling put him in danger from London's most ruthless gangsters ... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HE WAS one of the greatest British artists of the past century — but as a brilliant new biography reveals, Lucian Freud had a personal life as colourful as it was outrageous. Yesterday's extract told how he fathered up to 30 children — some damaged for life by the man whose love they hungered for. Today, we reveal how his love of gambling put him in danger from London's most ruthless gangsters ... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]