ABBY MANN, writer of socially-conscious scripts for movies and television and winner of the 1961 Academy Award for adapted screenplay for Judgment at Nuremberg, has died aged 80. The cause of death was not given.

SO young Theo Walcott is off to Germany this summer, and not on a school exchange programme either.

Lollipop-sucking New York police detective Kojak will make a long-awaited return to US television tomorrow night.