News about Terence Stamp

They were cheered on while scrambling up Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street in Shaftesbury in Dorset - immortalised by the ad directed by future Oscar nominee and knight Sir Ridley Scott. Each cheese block being lugged was 14in in diameter, weighed 55lb and needed 500 pints of milk to make. Crowds braved the rain as they huddled under umbrellas while encouraging the runners along the 72m-long route. The record time for completing the course stands at 15 seconds, in the event which forms part of the Shaftesbury Food and Drink Festival.

I was abused physically by my wife. In the 1980s, we had a six-year relationship but I left her for the third time because of it. Two years later we met by accident and got together again. When family and friends protested I told them she'd changed... I still think I had to leave my wife and do right by the boys and know that it's now pointless to fret. But how I long for a relationship with my adult sons.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: She dazzled the world as the first'supermodel' to appear on British, American, and French Vogue covers simultaneously. She became increasingly involved with fellow Swing Sixties legends David Bailey and Terence Stamp, and then shocked socially conservative Australia by wearing a dress that ended four inches above the knee, possibly the world's first miniskirt. Jean Shrimpton overcame it all in a decade, turning her back to her days as 'The Shrimp', a term she loathed, in favour of a secluded life in Cornwall.

Brown reveals how Eastern mysticism went from being unknown to venerable and back to a topic of suspicion in a lively narrative delivered with humor and compassion. He introduces an innovative cast of characters, including film actors, writers, heiresses, and scholars, as well as how soothing swamis and dodgy charlatans left their mark on Western society.

TANYA SARNE: When I started my fashion label, Ghost, I was an unemployed single mother with my 40th birthday fast approaching. It was 1984, an epoch when working women were expected to multitask. Clothes must be clean, suitable for running for a bus, doing the school run, washing up, or going to a meeting. However, women were dressed in uncomfortable structured suits in order to compete with men in the boardroom. What I wanted was the opposite of power dressing; clothes that represented women's femininity, but also tumble-dried, and which didn't need ironing.