A COMMUNITY has been left in shock after the tragic death of a one-year-old baby. Little Leiland Corkhill has been identified as the baby at the centre of a murder probe in Cumbria. He died just aged one, shortly after paramedics rushed him to Furness General Hospital with a head injury. The North West Ambulance Service was called to a house in Barrow on January 6. Paramedics were concerned about the child’s injuries and called Cumbria Police. Birth mum Laura Corkhill and gran Yvonne Corkhill both from Whitehaven raced to his side. Leiland was moved to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool where he died a short time afterwards.
There’s nothing like spending the bulk of a year indoors to make you appreciate your television. Nor, it would seem, to make you hanker after something a bit bigger and better where your TV’s concerned. And given that the UK’s favourite TV screen size is now up somewhere around the 55in mark, it seems only right that we should point you in the direction of the best televisions of this size around.
The electronics industry’s annual shindig may have been COVIDed down from January’s usual week-long shindig in Las Vegas to an endless succession of Zoom conference calls, but that didn’t prevent every one of the planet’s TV brands from dishing the details of its new products for 2021.
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Basil Moss, who has died aged 85, was a perennial character actor often popping up in popular series as authority figures, but he found his best parts in two BBC soaps.
He became a familiar face on television as the librarian Alan Drew in Compact, set in the offices of a glossy women’s magazine. The role made him a heart-throb as his character went through various melodramas in and out of the reference library, including a string of relationships, from the time he arrived in 1963 – a year after Compact began – until his departure shortly before its demise, in mid-1965.