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Leaving behind a troubled family life, he shot to fame in The Sweeney and went on to create the best-loved detective of modern times.

Her 29-year marriage to the celebrated former Morse and Sweeney actor was the most profound element in Sheila's life and when he died of cancer she was left with many questions.

Sheila Hancock presents a very personal account of her life with the actor John Thaw, best known for his Inspector Morse television series out of Britain.A As I read The Two Of Us: My Life With John Thaw I could feel the special bond they had and marveled at how open Sheila was to include the many declarations of love they made to each other.

Sheila Hancock is one of the star names in the new Jimmy McGovern drama serie,s Moving On.

Despite suffering from stage fright all her life, Sheila Hancock is starring in a musical at the age of 76.

Mysteries on TV , your source for the most complete selection of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series now available or coming soon to DVD, is profiling one series that has a season DVD being released this week and one that is releasing a number of its episodes on multiple DVDs.

In France, it is not difficult to spot the English. Just what is it that singles us out? Britons such as John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan in A Year in Provence can be recognised in an instant Photo: BBC I'M sure I've walked past many a French person on an English street without noticing anything which might have identified him or her as French; stripy ...

A company director whose luxurious lifestyle was funded by an 80 million property fraud has been jailed for five years.

SHEILA Hancock admits she no longer misses John Thaw, her late husband and star of television classics The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, 'so dreadfully'. Seven years after his death, the veteran actress says she ...

WINNING author Michelle Magorian drew a large crowd when she officially opened the Oxfam bookshop in The Square, Petersfield, last Thursday.

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Though Sheila Hancock has decades of achievement behind her, she is showing no signs of stowing away the greasepaint.

By what name do we now know it? -The Times Samuel Pepys began his diary today in 1660.

DAVID BECKHAM will be surrounded by a ring of steel when he flies into Dubai next week amid fears of a terror attack.

ACTRESS Sheila hancock has admitted to a bizarre fear of cows sparked by her rural experiences in Oxfordshire as a wartime evacuee from London.