Joan Smith: Last News

A great-gran who celebrated her 100th birthday last week has shared her secret to a long and happy life.

Peter Sutcliffe, which happened on May 22 1981, is likely to remain a difficult day for the families.The "Yorkshire Ripper", who renamed himself Peter Coonan and died in 2020, was sentenced to 20 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment for the murders of 13 innocent women after he was caught in January 1981.His crimes struck fear into many in the Yorkshire area where he committed his crimes. Protests that arose when he was still at large raised important points about feminism and male violence towards women into the public eye.

Richard Osman, 50, recently published The Man Who Died Twice, his sequel to his bestselling book, The Thursday Murder Club. But despite the roaring success of his first novel, the creator and co-presenter of Pointless has admitted he cannot help but feel “upset” when receiving a blistering review.Richard claimed crime writer Joan Smith’s review of his work for The Sunday Times felt like a “vindictive attack” on him.Joan wrote that the book was “a novel so flawed that it is hard to believe it would ever have been published without a celebrity’s name on the cover".Richard told this week's Radio Times: “That did upset me.“It felt very personal, like it wasn’t really a reflection on the book, but a vindictive attack on me.“Success doesn’t