![]() Common people! Inside the story of The Wombles and its narrow escape from Jimmy Savile as much-loved series returns after 50 years.Detectives search for missing man, 63, who vanished on a night out in Ipswich last Sunday: Police release CCTV showing his last movements as specialist divers search River Gipping.Headache for This Morning bosses as Cat Deeley turns down chance to replace Holly Willoughby to host So You Think You Can Dance in America instead.BBC launches sex harassment probe into soap star accused of misconduct up to five times on and around set.Town halls accused of insulting taxpayer by splashing out £350,000 to send staff to glitzy award dinners.My weekly horoscope: Weekly guide to what the stars have in store for YOU - December 16-22, 2023.Hong Kong offers £100k bounty for arrest of 'anti-China' British consulate worker who fled the territory after being tortured - sparking diplomatic row between London and Beijing.Nigella Lawson, 63, reveals the one household chore she has NEVER done because she has a deep hatred of it.Nigel Farage slams review that found there was no political discrimination in Coutts' decision to shut his account as a 'work of fiction'.This is the ramshackle French mountain farm where Alex Batty, the British boy who vanished, lived as 'Zak': Locals lift the lid on what the 17-year-old from Oldham has been up to in recent years.As British Airways announces £7billion overhaul in bid to reclaim 'world's favourite airline' title from Middle Eastern rivals after years of decline, Travel Editor MARK PALMER reveals 25 things it could do to improve right now.Half-price Christmas! Bonanza for bargain hunters as struggling major retailers launch massive sales.So, were locals equally outraged? Take a wild guess ![]() Doncaster's Tory MP Nick Fletcher was vilified by the Left for saying the city was 'full' during Commons migration debate this week.and nor will it make you live longer - that's just one of the many common myths about exercise DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Why running more WON'T help you to lose weight.BEL MOONEY: Dare I risk taking up a friend’s indecent proposal?.Prince Harry isn't as fun since he married Meghan Markle, claims close friend James Haskell - as the rugby star also accuses ex-teammate Mike Tindall of 'brown-nosing' the royal family.as coroner says the Friends star - who said he was 19 months clean - lost consciousness and couldn't stay afloat in hot tub where his body was found Revealed: Matthew Perry had as much ketamine in his system as a person under general anaesthetic.Benjamin, far from being embarrassed or timid, responds to Patrick and Leo with flashes of naked hostility. Long story short, she celebrates her birthday with Benjamin in her luxurious hotel suite (which she’s paying for).ĭickens has fun with the scene where Julia introduces Ben to her family, an encounter which leaves Patrick spluttering with impotent rage, petulant Leo demanding “what the actual fuck?”, and only Della offering stout non-judgmental support to her mother. But it’s fatal to jump to conclusions in the first episode. He seems gentle and charming, though as his surprisingly confident seduction of Julia proceeds we’re obviously being steered to believe that the show is all about him (the clue is in the title). Julia assuages the disappointment of her birthday disaster with a trip to the British Museum, where she used to work as a conservator, and is flabbergasted to find herself being chatted up by Benjamin (Ben Barnes), aged 30-ish. Oddly, Marsha thinks they can still be pals. Twisting the knife still further is the fact that her best friend Marsha (Nikki Amuka-Bird) – make that former best friend – is having an affair with her ex-husband Ted (a very supercilious Alex Jennings). It sums up Julia’s melancholy sense that she’s being nudged into the sidings of life. Daughter Della gets stranded at an airport, her morbid City lawyer son Patrick (Sebastian Armesto, pictured below) is too busy to make it, while his crass younger brother Leo, who’s incapable of changing a lightbulb or buying a pint of milk, forgot all about it. Ruefully examining her brand new Senior Citizen railcard, she travels to London from her home in Devon to celebrate her 60th with her family, but her plans hit the buffers. As she puts it in a voice-over, “daughter, wife, mother… these are my roles. Julia has reached a turning point, and is brooding over roads taken or not taken, and what her life is worth. Dickens’s objective, we may surmise, was to drive away the fog of invisibility which can descend irrationally upon mature women, however capable they may be, and demonstrate that age can indeed be just a number.
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