Many of the great stars of the 1980s are disappearing. Last week alone, we bade goodbye to businessman Feargal Quinn and to actor Ken Kercheval, the man who played the long suffering rival of JR Ewing, Cliff Barnes, on the TV soap, Dallas.

I ordered some tractor diesel the other day, and when JR Ewing himself came out to deliver it, I had to laugh. 

Tributes were flooding in from around the world today following the death of Dallas star Larry Hagman.

A Florida judge said former teen idol David Cassidy was expected to plead guilty or no contest to a drink-driving charge.