Hannah Stephenson consults former Blue Peter gardener Chris Collins on how to grow youngsters’ interest in gardening

When he decided he just wasn't good enough to be a newspaper cartoonist, Jeff Kinney decided he had to find another way to get his illustrations published. It would be the origins of publishing phenomenon, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, he tells Rowena Walsh.

Alison Campbell, engaged to heralded sportsman Darren Clarke, is tall, blond and beautiful. And more importantly, she is a successful businesswoman in her own right, says Irene Feighan.

Mourners today paid their final respects at the funeral of television presenter Caron Keating.