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Helen McCrory, who has died of cancer aged 52, was already established among the leading stage actors of her generation when she became known as Cherie Blair in Stephen Frears’s movie The Queen (2006), starring Helen Mirren, and with Michael Sheen as Tony; and as the witch Narcissa Malfoy, mother of Draco, in the last three Harry Potter films.
Her brisk and slinky Cherie Blair was one in a line of suited authority figures and lawyers played by McCrory, culminating in an acidulous, brutally frank but deluded Tory prime minister in David Hare’s television drama Roadkill (2020), refusing to give a “big job” to Hugh Laurie’s shameless MP. In comparison, Narcissa was a “turn,” a Gothic hoot, for all her verve and suffocating evil.
A PRINTING firm has announced a deal to use paper with anti-viral protection to combat Covid-19. Specialist paper maker James Cropper, based in Kendal, will supply H&H Reeds, Southend Road, Penrith, with their PaperGard product. Businesses, such as those in the hospitality sector, care homes, doctors’ surgeries and schools, will be able to use it for items like menus, logbooks, stationery and hotel registers. It is anticipated the self-sanitising paper will be in high demand as businesses prepare to reopen after Boris Johnson recently announced his roadmap to ease lockdown restrictions. Jonathan Nagle, business development manager for H&H Reeds, said: “This arrangement means we can provide local businesses with products for a non-prohibitive price.