Margaret Rutherford News

FOLLOWING complaints about a commotion in one of her bedrooms the landlady and her husband rushed upstairs and pushed open the door to be confronted by a ghastly spectacle.

Anyway, the cosy Sunday tea-time tradition of brutal murder isn't something we'd normally look at but this week low culture favourite Russell Tovey appears as PC Terence Reed.

Born in Balham, south London, her early life was touched by tragedy: her father murdered his father before she was born, her mother died when she was three, leaving Margaret to be raised by an aunt.

McKenzie joins a long line of famous faces to take on the role, including Joan Hickson, Angela Lansbury, Geraldine McEwan and Margaret Rutherford.

The actor Charles Tingwell, who has died aged 86, played the Australian surgeon Dr Alan "Digger" Dawson in Emergency Ward 10, one of the first British soap operas, featuring in nine episodes between 1958 and 1959.