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It’s time again for stars to raise money — and eyebrows — on Children in Need

IT’S that time of year again, when normally sensible actors and presenters are allowed to run riot.Read

PG for Peter Barlow as soaps mimic movies

CORRIE: Coronation Street does its Home Alone impersonation with new character Simon.Read

Kid’s author David Almond reveals love of opera on Private Passions

MICHAEL BERKELEY’S guest on this week’s Private Passions is Newcastle-born writer David Almond.Read

Lynda La Plante provides laughs aplenty for double-act Rock and Ellison in murder mystery The Commander

THE COMMANDER is not known for its humour, but that’s about to change in the latest three-part series.Read

Boost your reserves, cut your worries

WHEN I first started in business I had an inkjet printer which consumed ink cartridges at an alarming rate.Read

Orange loaf cake

IF you get your skates on, you’ve got just enough time to bake this cake before National Baking Week finishes today.Read

BEYONCE is following in the footsteps of Mariah Carey and Sean “P Diddy” Combs by exposing her own alter-ego, Sasha Fierce. Her new album, I Am... Sasha Fierce, gives a nod to her other side. “Sasha Fierce is the fun, more sensual side,” Beyonce explained.

DANIEL CRAIG has admitted that playing James Bond has turned his life upside down. “I was at a stage of my career in which things were going pretty well,” he told Parade.com. “When this opportunity came along, I knew it would turn everything upside down.Read

IN 1858, Bernadette Soubirous — aka St Bernadette of Lourdes — was a young girl of 14, uneducated and living in extreme poverty with her family. Yet her life was rich because her heart was open to God and filled with the riches of his love — FATHER RICHARD HARRIOTT, St John the Baptist, Annitsford, Newcastle.

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WE all know birds sing, but they don’t all give Dame Kiri Te Kanawa a run for her money! But here’s one incredible parrot whose virtuoso opera performance will have you cheering for an encore. See the video at www.sundaysun.co.uk/vid

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North man's war on grey squirrels

THE battle lines have been drawn. On one side we have the grey squirrel, deemed a threat to its red relative, and on the other stand the groups determined to rid the nation of the critters. Pauline Holt meets Paul Parker, who is on a quest to save the reds...Read

Build force to be reckoned with

Game: Galactic Civilizations II: Endless Universe From: Kalypso Media/Stardock For: PC Price: £29.99 Rating: 7+ Out: NowOut: NowRead

Grin and bare it!

WHEN the plucky ladies of Rylstone Women’s Institute decided to strip off for a charity calendar in 1999, they were seen as daring to go bare. But these days everyone’s at it . . . even burly rugby league players. PAULINE HOLT gives you a nudes update.Read

Life in a strip . .

V Born in Burnley September, 22, 1977, but moved to Oldham a year later.Read

Video of the week - October 19

IT’S easy to forget a face, but surely not the face of someone you’ve been talking to literally seconds ago.Read

STRING IN THE TALE

A SPECIAL series of the arts programme Imagine looks at the history of the guitar.Read

MARATHON TELLY EVENT

IT’S that time of year again when BBC1’s cameras capture the action of the Great North Run.Read

It’s darkest after the Dawn

EASTENDERS: Someone should warn Garry that Dawn will break his heart.Read

Warner’s brothers

NEW celebrity chef Valentine Warner joins a community of Benedictine monks in North Yorkshire in the fourth of six programmes.Read

Cunning Blackadder plan foiled

TELLY producers had a cunning plan to mark the 25th anniversary of Blackadder.Read

A NEW series of Desert Island Discs sees Kirsty Young’s guests reveal their favourite music once again.

The series begins with Bafta-winning actress Miriam Margolyes.Read

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