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Woodville Box Club on a night they would have been celebrating her birthday. Her birthday would have been on Tuesday but she would have celebrated with friends at the weekend after. Her friend Elaine Smith told how they were left in complete shock by her passing as she remembered her.

It's hard to understand why anyone would ever want to marry Neighbours' ruthless, scheming businessman, Paul Robinson. But back in the late 1980s, Gail Lewis did just that – becoming Gail Robinson in the process – when the pair cooked up the plan solely to fool Japanese businessman Mr Udagawa, thereby securing a deal with him for the Daniels Corporation, where they both worked.The backstory was that Gail had worked with Paul when they were both flight attendants, and they had both become ruthless business people, each with a previous marriage behind them.

It could be an apparently-simple pub quiz question: who played Scott Robinson in Aussie TV soap Neighbours? Surely the answer is surely blindingly obvious – Jason Donovan. But anyone who thought this was the case would actually be wrong. For back when Neighbours first began on TV in March 1985, the character was played by a different actor, called Darius Perkins.

Before Scott and Charlene, there was Des and Daphne – the original Neighbours couple who got married in a fairytale wedding, one year prior to Mr and Mrs Robinson becoming an item. Daphne Lawrence (played by Elaine Smith) was originally a stripper with a heart of gold – she fell for loveable Des Clarke (played by Paul Keane) in the very first episode of the popular Australian soap, back on 18 March, 1985. Daphne was one of just 12 original Neighbours characters – along with Des – created by TV producer Reg Watson, who gave up stripping when she got the lease to the local coffee shop.

23 years on since the tragic death of former Big Breakfast presenter Paula Yates, Channel 4 have created a two-part documentary taking a closer look at the Welsh star’s life. Focusing on four “extraordinarily compelling” and previously unseen interviews which were recorded in 1998 and 1999, the documentary hopes to explore the mystery surrounding Paula’s life and untimely death in 2000.

An exclusive £25million planning development linked to a Scots fraudster has been rejected by the Scottish Government.

children to collect free meals from 26 cafes and restaurants across Lanarkshire by discreetly asking staff if “auntie Trisha is in”.

Scottish Labour Party has called on the SNP government to use all its powers to tackle the poverty crisis caused by the covid pandemic.The plea came as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reported that 230,000 children are currently living in poverty in Scotland and theAberlour Child Care Trust has recorded a 1000 per cent surge in demand for urgent assistance.Elaine Smith MSP, the Scottish Labour poverty spokeswoman, said the figures should galvanise the Scottish government into action.She said:

the development would be “highly detrimental” to the surrounding area.Maggie Proctor, the leader of long-running campaign group Monklands Residents Against Pyrolysis Plant (MRAPP), said: “This good news is very much welcomed by our community and all our supporters,” adding: “It’s been an incredibly long journey.”The news was also received positively by Coatbridge MSP Fulton MacGregor, who called it “the right decision” and “a demonstration of people power”; and by his predecessor Elaine Smith,

A COATBRIDGE politician highlighted the importance of protecting and conserving Scotland’s war memorials during a debate in the Scottish Parliament.

B. Smith‘s husband Dan Gasby confirmed her death in a Facebook post shared on Sunday, February 23.