Billy Walker: Last News

It's been 25-years since one of the most controversial TV soap plots of all time caused outrage on a national level. Now considered one of the greatest storylines ever, it sparked a national campaign and even saw Prime Minister Tony Blair step in.

Emmerdale star was played by Ken Farrington, who also found fame in rival soap Coronation Street as Billy Walker from 1961 until 1984. Tom King’s death storyline was one of the biggest whodunnit-style plots in Emmerdale history, with plenty of suspects in the firing line for Tom’s murder - including his three sons Jimmy, Carl and Matthew.The killer was eventually revealed as Carl, but he was never prosecuted and the trial to send the three of them down for conspiracy to murder fell down with insufficient evidence.To mark the anniversary of Tom’s death, we take a look at where his murder suspects are now - from co-star swipes to a complete transformation.Since leaving Emmerdale, Matthew King star Matt Healy has kept a rather low profile, mainly keeping to pantomime appearances along with a stint in Casualty and Holby City.But he admitted in 2011 that it was his own idea to be killed off the soap in 2008, explaining to Inside Soap: “It was actually my idea [to kill off Matthew].

The Water of Life, a documentary about Scotland’s whisky industry, has been picked up by PBS.

Whisky distilleries are facing shortages of cardboard and glass as well as seeing the impact on a shortage of delivery drivers blamed on Brexit.