After being subjected to some terrible treatment from Alfred Hitchcock, actress Tippi Hedren is much happier looking after her tigers and other big cats, writes Lorraine Wylie

Danny Boyle’s impressive Olympic opening ceremony and the spoof sitcom inspired by the Games are both in the running for TV Bafta Awards.

Thriller, a tiger that belonged to Michael Jackson when the entertainer lived at his Neverland ranch, has died of lung cancer at actress-activist Tippi Hedren’s wildlife preserve in California.

Leonard South, the camera operator on such classic Alfred Hitchcock films as The Birds and North by Northwest, has died. He was 92.

Actress Melanie Griffith is not happy that her mother, Birds star Tippi Hedren, lives in a cottage where on the surrounding grounds live 60 exotic large cats such as leopards, lions and tigers.