Michael Winner, the highly successful British film director, was a flamboyant, larger-than-life character who could never be accused of being a shrinking violet.

SUPERMARKET supplier Musgrave has come under fire in Britain for allowing one of its franchise operators to sell squirrel meat.

ON the same theme of law and order, catch the first series of Judge John Deed (BBC DVD, €36.49), a three-disc collection with Martin Shaw in the title role of a passionate but tough High Court judge — there’s a touch of the unconventional Rumpole about him.

Paul McCartney and a host of other celebrities have written to the British government pleading for a ban on hunting with dogs, it emerged today.