News about Neil Oliver

Stranded on a desert island, British TV presenter and author Neil Oliver will have the opportunity to revisit Herman Melville's 'unrivalled masterpiece' Moby-Dick.

Borley Rectory, near Long Melford, Suffolk, was once known as England's most haunted house.' When no one was near them, the ghost of a nun would peek in through windows, servants' bells rang, and footsteps from rooms that were supposed to be empty will be heard. Books and articles about the area were published, and locals became so irriated by ghost-hunting visitors that they've deleted the road signs. The 1930s, when the house was inhabited by Reverend Lionel Foyster, was at its peak. Marianne, Foyster's wife, admitted that she had been having an affair with their lodger years later. 'Perhaps,' writes Neil Oliver,'some of the bumps in the night were certainly more earthly than spiritual.' Oliver's evenhandedness in his tour around haunted Britain is evident. 'I've wanted to see a ghost,' he says in the first sentence.'

Michael Crick, a veteran journalist, has said he was 'expelled' from a GB News studio after saying that the channel was "biased and right-wing" during a discussion of free expression. The 65-year-old, a founding member of Channel 4 News in 1982, has also stated his wish that regulator Ofcom stop running the show. After a Tory MP, two leaders of the Conservative Party, and barely Labour MPs, appearing on a GB News panel show hosted by Neil Oliver on Saturday evening to discuss media censorship, Mr Crick said it's absurd that you have Tory MP after Tory MP. You are on a right-wing channel, and the country's (about impartiality) laws are quite straightforward.' During the discussion, Mr Oliver referred to Mr Crick's previous remarks that GB News "should be shut down." Mr Crick, a former Political Editor for The Daily Mail and a former Newsnight reporter, said he had not changed his mind, describing the channel as 'biased and right wing.'

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: On BBC1's quiz show Pointless, Alexander, or Xander to his Pointless colleagues, looked positively green as he attempted to defeat a woman wolf down 20 bags of processed noodles. But it may have been due to the make-up session in a Seoul male beauty parlour, where his face was spray-painted green, which Koreans think looks better than the European pinky-red.

Six gamekeepers from Balmoral Estate, sturdy men with intimate knowledge of the Highland region that the Queen has adored, will file into the castle's ballroom shortly before 10 a.m. this morning. The Queen Mother's coffin was laid to rest in an oak coffin adorned with the Royal Standard for Scotland and a wreath of flowers in what one senior Palace official referred to as a scene of 'quiet dignity' last night (Pictured main: The Queen Mother's coffin at Windsor's All Saints Chapel in 2002). The gamekeepers, some of whom accompanied the Queen on walks across Balmoral's grouse moors and mountains, will gently lift the coffin and carry it into a Entrance Portico parking lot. It will be the first poignant moment of a three-day journey that will end in the Queen's coffin being welcomed by a guard of honour at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.