A TOTAL of 112 swimmers took part in the Thames Marathon on Sunday and raised £40,000 for charity. The 13km swim, which started in New Street, Henley, and.
Anne Perry the famous New Zealand crime novelist - formally Juliet Hulme the infamous Christchurch teenager convicted of murder - died last week at aged 84. The murder of Honorah Parker by her daughter Pauline and friend Juliet Hulme rocked New Zealand in 1954, and has stayed in our public memory. The crime was later dramatised in Peter Jackson's film 'Heavenly Creatures'. Yet Anne Perry managed an extraodinary reinvention; leaving behind a country gripped by the Parker-Hulme case and forging a new life as a bestselling crime writer in a remote part of England. But can one ever leave a past like that behind? Will the public allow it? Anne Perry's biographer, Dr Joanne Drayton joins us.