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All Creatures Great and Small star Samuel West has addressed the "very sad" loss of his beloved mother and Fawlty Towers ...

In this special edition of Last Word, Matthew Bannister talks to the actor Samuel West about his mother Prunella Scales.

Two years after cruise lines stopped sailing through the Suez Canal because of the Middle East conflict, two ships will sail between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea in November with a full ...

In the heart of Rajasthan's Thar Desert, an hour's drive from Jaisalmer on a shimmering asphalt road, flanked by vast ...

The actress, who has died aged 93, starred alongside veteran actor West in a series of televised canal journeys even as both ...

The celebrated actress was best-known for her role as the bossy Sybil Fawlty - wife of John Cleese 's Basil - in BBC comedy ...

Away from acting, Scales was a committed campaigner. She served as president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England and she ...