The recently departed editor of the hugely influential ‘Vanity Fair’, Graydon Carter will be hugely missed as one of a disappearing breed of fearless reportage, says Kyran Fitzgerald

John Gregory Dunne, a screenwriter and best-selling author who often collaborated with his wife, Joan Didion, and took a cynical look at Hollywood and the Roman Catholic Church in works like True Confessions, has died at 71.

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners claim an announcement expected today will result in the destruction of a national monument.

Kennedy nephew Michael Skakel was jailed for 20 years to life today for murdering the girl next door in 1975 when they were 15-year-old neighbours.