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Helen Flanagan looks elegant as she enjoys a night with her fiancé Scott Sinclair while on holiday with their kids.The mum of three, 31, posted a snap posing with her beau on holiday, captioned with a simple white heart emoji. She wore a sparking Nadine Merabi dress with a stunning feather hem, paired with silver strappy heels.The former Coronation Street actress’ hair is scraped back in a bun to show off a pair of Lara Heems Jewellery earrings.The couple have taken their three young children, Matilda, six, Delilah, three, and Charlie, one, on a sun soaked trip. Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter .

Actress Patricia Brake has died at the age of 79 following a long cancer battle, it has been announced. She had a career that spanned over 60 years, but she was best known for her roles in the 1970s sitcom Porridge.The star also appeared in soaps such as Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale. Patricia's son Jon McBain shared the news on Twitter, he wrote: "I can confirm that my mother, the actress Patricia Brake, died earlier today at the age of 79 after a long battle with cancer." Her agent Scott Marshall Partners also issued a statement: “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our client and well-loved stage and TV actress, Patricia Brake, at the age of 79, after a very long battle with cancer.” Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter.

Russia's despotic president Vladimir Putin are ramping up, as a Russian intelligence source has claimed that he has just three years to live.The FSB office has claimed that Putin has a “severe form of rapidly progressing cancer”.The Mirror reports how the unnamed spy also told that Putin is beginning to go blind.He said: “He has no more than two to three years to stay alive.“We are told he is suffering from headaches and when he appears on TV he needs pieces of paper with everything written in huge letters to read what he’s going to say.“They are so big each page can only hold a couple of sentences. His eyesight is seriously worsening.“And his limbs are now also shaking uncontrollably.” And the comments were backed up by the Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Major-General Kyrylo Budanov.

Actress Patricia Brake has died after a long cancer battle, it has been announced. The 79-year-old will probably be best known for playing Ronnie Barker's on-screen daughter in sitcom Porridge.

Patricia Brake, who is best known for her roles in BBC sitcom Porridge and ITV drama Manhunt, has died aged 79 after being diagnosed with cancer, her family has said.

BBC sitcom actress Patricia Brake has died aged 79 after a “very long” battle with cancer, her family have confirmed. The Porridge star’s agent said that she would be "sadly missed" by her friends, family, colleagues and fans.

China's attempts to remove all traces of Covid from the country have now taken a strange twist.A new edict from officials has been given to funeral homes, and it demands that they test the dead for the virus which is still ravaging the country.The government-backed Shenzhen Funeral Home was given the order last week, after case numbers in the city continued to be reported.Across the entire country, new cases discovered were reported to be 6,392 yesterday (May 28), with around 64,488 active cases across the entire country.Since the pandemic began, China has had more than 1.2 million cases – but only 5,226 deaths.This hasn't stopped the Chinese government from pushing ahead with its “zero Covid” policy, which is something Labour's Richard Burgon pushed for in the UK throughout the pandemic.And now a funeral home in Shenzhen has been told to test the dead for Covid.The hope is, is that anyone who tests positive will be isolated so that mourners won't catch Covid at open-casket funerals.The edict was shown to website Sixth Tone, who said: “An operator at Shenzhen’s city service hotline said they were unable to locate official documents and policies requiring a nucleic acid test of the deceased.“Shenzhen has made negative results from the past 72 hours mandatory to access public transport and crowded spaces since early April.“Such requirements sometimes resulted in tragedies for those in urgent need of medical treatment during the lockdown in other cities.”The testing of the dead policy was slammed by some online locally as “ethically and emotionally unacceptable”, while being criticised for showing “little respect to the dead”.One user on Chinese social media site Weibo wrote: “I’m not sure if I would have to wear a mask for

"He never let you down. He was a good operator and a good professional."Bob Warman added: "I remember Bob with great fondness.

MOVING tributes have been paid to ITV legend Bob Hall following his death this week. The Central presenter - who is more recently best-known as a contributor to Jeff Stelling's Sky Sports show Soccer Saturday - was in his mid-70s.

BRITAIN'S Got Talent hopeful Cormac Thompson released an album on a major label two years before auditioning in front of the TV judges. Last night viewers watched the 13-year-old Lancashire choral singer impress with a cover track that appears on his record.

Demi Lovato is set to release a new single titled ‘Skin Of My Teeth’ next month, kicking off a new rock era for the pop star.The singer announced the forthcoming track on social media earlier this week, sharing its title, artwork and a snippet of the song, which is slated for release on June 10.The single art features Lovato emerging from water, dressed in spiked leather, chains and a fishnet stocking over their head, while the eerie clip sees a man holding a video camera with ‘Skin Of My Teeth’ playing in the background. It’s not a long taste of the song, but enough to identify a rock meets pop-punk sound, with the lyrics: “Demi leaves rehab again / When is this shit gonna end?”Check it out below.A post shared by Demi Lovato (@ddlovato)‘Skin Of My Teeth’ will mark a new era for the singer, who joked about holding a “funeral for my pop music” earlier this year with an image on Instagram of them and their team all dressed in black.Speaking to Rolling Stone in February, Lovato said that this new sound would be something of a reprisal of their first albums, ‘Don’t Forget’ and ‘Here We Go Again’, with a newfound “heaviness”.“When I say heaviness, I don’t mean lyrically, but heaviness as in some of the sound that I haven’t done before, which is exciting.

The Mandalorian has been revealed.The news was revealed at the ongoing Star Wars Celebration event this week, its four-day fan event in Anaheim, California.It was confirmed at the event that filming on the hit Star Wars spin-off has finished, with all episodes now in pre-production. They also confirmed the new season would arrive in February 2023.The news was revealed via a new poster for the series.

True Detective. As reported by Variety, Foster will play the role of Detective Liz Danvers in the show’s forthcoming iteration True Detective: Night Country.The series will follow Detective Danvers and Detective Evangeline Navarro (who is yet to be cast), as they set about solving a case in Ennis, Alaska, in which six men operating the Tsalal Arctic Research Station mysteriously vanish. According to the show’s synopsis, the duo will “have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”Foster has starred in a number of iconic films during her Hollywood career, including The Silence Of The Lambs, Taxi Driver, Nell and The Accused.Rumours of a fourth True Detective series started circulating in February this year, when HBO’s chief content officer Casey Bloys said they were looking at ways to move the story forwards following the third season.“It’s safe to say we’re working with a couple of writers to find the right tone and take,” he told Deadline.

Game Of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin has opened up about writing the ‘Red Wedding’ chapter of his novels in a new interview.Martin said the chapter, which was later turned into a notorious episode of the Game Of Thrones television series that saw several major characters killed at once, was one of the most difficult he’s ever written.“I finished the entire book, except for the Red Wedding [chapter],” Martin told The Independent. “That was such a painful chapter for me to write, losing some characters that I had come to know and love. Nine years I’d been with these characters, and now I was going to kill them horribly! That was difficult.”“It’s a horrible chapter, and it upsets people,” he continued.

Martine McCutcheon, known for her role as Tiffany Mitchell in EastEnders, has recently revealed that she used to drink eight cans of Diet Coke in one day before she kicked the habit. The 46-year-old, who played Natalie in Love Actually, admitted that she felt judged by the mothers at the school gate when she went to pick up her children.The actress spoke to Gavin and Stacey legend Rob Brydon about her previous love for fizzy drinks and how she managed to overcome the obsession.She opened up on the comedian’s podcast and revealed: “I don’t really drink tea or coffee, so the caffeine in it was my thing.

Britain's most famous jockey Lester Piggott has died at the age of 86. The legendary rider's amazing career spanned almost 50 years and saw him ride 4,493 winners – the third highest tally in British racing history behind only Sir Gordon Richards and Pat Eddery.

Outlander star Annette Badland, 71, explained her “naughty” co-stars were told off after growing impatient during Caitriona Balfe's nude scene on a closed set. Annette, who played fan favourite character Mrs.

HOLLYWOOD actor Bo Hopkins, best known for his roles in films like American Graffiti and Wild Bunch, has died at the age of 80. Hopkins' death at a California hospital on Saturday came several weeks after the actor suffered a heart attack.

AS one of Britain’s best-loved actresses, Martine McCutcheon would have been subjected to all the temptations of the jetset life. So it is little wonder the Love Actually favourite has finally come clean about her “addiction” to Coke.

LOVE Island is upon us and we can reveal that one of this year’s hunks is male model Zach Hartman. The fitness fanatic has shot glossy ad campaigns with Jack Wills, Ralph Lauren and ASOS, and is now set to break some hearts on the ITV2 reality show.

Lucy Livesey was 20 weeks pregnant when she was taken into a private room at St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester. She knew from the plain chairs and neutral wallpaper that it was a 'bad news room’, just like the one she was led into when her twin brother died in 2004.