Daily Mirror - 04.03.2020

mirror.co.uk WEDNESDAY 04.03.2020 DAILY MIRROR^27

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with Nicola Methven & Mark Jefferies

New cruise crew

When Jane McDonald quit

her travelogue shows on

Channel 5 there was gloom

among her millions of fans.

So it will be interesting to see how they

react to news that the cruising will

continue without her.

Susan Calman will be the

new presenter of Cruising

With... and Holidaying With...

after 56-year-old Jane’s final

episodes go out this year.

Susan, 45, said: “I’m over the

moon to be working with

Channel 5 on such a prestig-

ious group of shows. I can’t

wait to go on exciting voyages and

incredible journeys and take the

wonderful viewers with me. It’s the start

of a magnificent chapter.”

It follows the success of her Channel 5

series Secret Scotland. Some might ques-

tion whether Cruising With... will still be

as fabulous – to use one of

Jane’s favourite words.

But the channel’s director of

programming Ben Frow said:

“Susan  was my first and only

choice for these shows and I

am cock-a-hoop that she is

doing more with Channel 5.”

Time will tell if the shows

ship comes in New host Susan sink or drop anchor for years.

sQUARe

eyes

3 nods for Flea

and Chernobyl

at awards night

Comedy Fleabag and drama Chernobyl

each have three nominations in the Royal

Television Society Programme Awards.

Fleabag creator and star Phoebe

Waller-Bridge, below, is up for comedy

performance (female) and writer (comedy),

while the show is

contending for the

scripted comedy award.

Chernobyl star Jared

Harris is shortlisted in

actor (male) category,

with its writer Craig

Mazin up for writer

(drama) and the

programme for best

mini-series. There are also two

nominations each for dramas Gentleman

Jack, with Suranne Jones, and The Virtues,

starring Stephen Graham and Niamh Algar.

Comedian Paul Merton hosts the ceremony

at London’s Grosvenor Hotel on March 17.

Paddy Power odds on Iceland

winning Eurovision. Support on

social media has led to a rush of

money on Think About Things by

singer Daði Freyr Pétursson.

4/1

forgotten MurDers that shoCkeD the nation...

and friends did check on the Morans,

but Hughes had been standing next to

Gill when the telephone rang, and told

her exactly how she should reply.

He also made her call Sarah’s school

and call in sick to her work.

And while Peter was in a race

against time to find the escaped

convict, Hughes was revelling

in murder. When Gill asked

her about daughter Sarah,

he replied with a caring

tone: “Sound asleep in

m u m ’s r o o m .”

Later, when the

worried mother asked

why she hadn’t asked for

her ‘comfort towel’ and

favourite toy elephant, he

took them to her room,

telling her on his return: “She was

really pleased to see them.”

In fact Hughes had murdered Sarah

on the first night, slitting her throat

and leaving her body in a foetal posi-

tion on the floor. He is also believed to

have killed Gill’s father Arthur that

night. Hughes even allowed Gill and

Richard to leave the house for provi-

sions on their own, confident they

would return without betraying him

to protect their loved ones.

It was three days later when Hughes

finally left Pottery Cottage, fleeing by

night in Gill’s car and taking her as

a hostage. But as they were

leaving, mum Amy stag-

gered out of the front door

with blood gushing from

a neck wound.

Hughes, who thought

he had killed her

moments earlier, ordered

Gill into the snow.

Police chief Peter, arriving

home after his shift, got

the call that neighbours

had raised the alarm and officers

found Amy dead in a pool of blood in

the garden, with the bodies of Arthur,

Richard and Sarah inside.

Peter recalls: “We got to the front of

the police convoy chasing the car

through icy country roads, reaching

speeds in excess of 80mph.” At one

point Hughes lost control and crashed.

Surrounded by police, Hughes grabbed

Gill and held an axe above her neck.

Peter says: “He went into a frenzy

and went for her. I instinctively jumped

through the broken window, the axe

skimmed her head and went into the

back of the seat. Then it was just chaos,

fighting with him inside the car. I can’t

remember much about it. Then I heard

the shots and he fell away.”

It was the first time British police

had shot dead a suspect, later ruled as

justifiable homicide at an inquest.

Peter last saw Gill two years ago. He

adds: “I was pleased to know she had

managed to rebuild her life, and find

happiness again, a long way from

Pottery Cottage.”

■ The Pottery Cottage

Murders by Carol Ann

Lee and Peter Howse, is

published tomorrow by

Robinson, priced £18.99.

[email protected]

@mattroperbr

Horror at Pottery Cottage

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victims Richard and

Gill Moran. Daughter

Sarah, left. The Mirror

front page, below

It’s just work. People think

television is all red carpets, beer

and skittles. It isn’t. Red

carpets... Quite frankly, I find it

embarrassing. But you have to

do it. Going through 117

photographers saying ‘Over here,

Brian! This way, Brian!’ Like a

performing f***ing monkey! It

doesn’t appeal to me at all.

Brian cox on his fame as Logan Roy in

hit series Succession

Giles’s bear necessity

This is the first glimpse of the

gorgeous, rare bear cubs being reared

by conservationist Giles Clark in

Laos, South East Asia.

In the past, BBC viewers have seen

him raise endangered tigers and big

cats in his home. Now Giles is helping

to set up a bear rescue centre to

protect orphaned cubs under threat

from illegal bear bile farming.

He tells us: “These extraordinary

animals are rapidly declining.”

A two-part special following his

progress will air later this year.

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Giles and sun bear

Mary. Moon bear cubs

David and Jane, right