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Joanna Page says she’s so keen to set a good example to her 17-month-old daughter Eva that she’s even given up eating cake. The Gavin Stacey star – who’s just filmed a pilot for a US show – says she’s no longer eating her favourite sweet snacks because she doesn’t want the toddler seeing her scoffing empty carbs. And she …

We thought Deep Breath was just breath-taking- but others weren’t so sure. The new Time Lord’s introduction to audiences was memorable, according to many critics in today’s papers, but others were less impressed. Peter Capaldi had emerged “brash, furious and very, very Scottish”, the Independent on Sunday’s Neela Debnath said. The script, to match the Doctor, is “suitably darker and …

The Paternoster Gang must have a spin-off   It has been mooted for quite a while now, but Deep Breath really confirms the Paternoster Gang should have a spin-off show of their own. Plus it could fill those irritating gaps between the series of Doctor Who. It is going to get darker   This Doctor is going to get darker …

It’s the question many novelists dread being asked: So what’s your book about, then? Strangely, though, the question has never fazed me. Put simply, Until Our Blood is Dry is about a small South Wales community ripped apart by the 1984-1985 miners’ strike. Thirty years have passed since the strike began in March 1984, but many of us remember it …

The Welsh are out in force at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Therefore this column only scratches the surface. The Future for Beginners by Alan Harris and Martin Constantine with Music by Harry Blake comes courtesy of liveartshow and Wales Millennium Centre and is a short, whimsical comedy playing at Summerhall. Ostensibly, it relates a love story between characters named …

Our favourite brain-busting quiz show, Only Connect, has won a place in the home of intellectual competition, Monday nights on BBC Two. Making the leap from BBC Four, the show, fronted by the impishly smart Victoria Coren, was devised in Wales and is made by Cardiff-based production company Parasol Media, as a co-production with RDF Television. It will air straight …

Line of Duty. Midsomer Murders. Bergerac. You name it, we can’t get enough of crime dramas on the telly. And the new series of Suspects (Five,Wednesday, 10pm) was a casual yet potent mix of our favourite things, bringing the violence of a brutal assault investigation cheek to jowl with the British viewing public’s twin obsession: sex. Meaning the discovery of …

Psycho (1960) One of the all-time great horror-thriller movies, which cranks up the adrenalin thanks to a clever score. And, of course, it contains one of cinema’s most famous moments – that shower scene. I was introduced to Hitchcock’s masterpiece during my GCSE Film Studies course and it remains my favourite psychological thriller of all-time. The novel by Robert Bloch …

Celestina Warbeck Born: August 18, year not known Wand: Larch and phoenix feather, 10 ½ inches long Hogwarts House: Gryffindor Special abilities: Ability to drown out a chorus of banshees, tap dancing, fancy baking Harry Potter author JK Rowling unveils new Welsh character based on Shirley Bassey  Parentage: Wizard father, Muggle mother Family: Has married three times; one son Hobbies: …

Celebrity Big Brother has given us some memorable moments over the last few years – who could forget the sight of presenter Vanessa Feltz crumbling on national TV, or George Galloway in an all-in-one leotard pretending to be a cat? Here’s a look back at some of its best, bonkers and brilliant bits. 1. Vanessa’s meltdown in 2001 The first …