Hilary Mantel said she was left “weak at the knees” after becoming the first British writer to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction twice after her novel Bring up the Bodies was named the best book of the year.

MONEY raised from the expected sale of famed author Iris Murdoch’s working library will create a prestigious scholarship in her name, it emerged yesterday.

The Times is said to be preparing to appoint its first non-British editor to succeed Peter Stothard who stepped down on Thursday.

Columnist and broadcaster John Diamond has died following a long battle with throat cancer.