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When children's writer Vicky Cowie was seeking pictures for her rhymes, she met an artist who sketched while she read her stories aloud. If the style looks familiar, it's because he has gone on to become Britain's biggest-selling illustrator of all time, reports Maddy Fletcher

Since other media outlets revealed their names last night, Good Morning Britain named the two in the show's opening credits. 'The Princess of Wales made no comment at the Royal Variety display in London last night, and it was business as normal for the King at the climate conference in Dubai,' the royals who wondered what color skin Prince Archie would have,' said.'

In the manuscript she received, the Dutch translator (left) who worked on Omid Scobie's (right) controversial book insisted that the names of two royals involved in the racial controversy were unknown. Saskia Peeters said she did not add the names to the Dutch version of Endgame. 'I translate what's in front of me as a translator,' she told MailOnline from Arnhem.' In black and white, the royal names were displayed. I didn't add them. "I just did what I was supposed to do, and that was to translate the book from English to Dutch.'

Exclusive: In the preface to the book 'EndGame', two members of the royal family were identified in the racial controversy that engulfed the company, Saskia Peeters and Nellie Keukelaar-van Rijsbergern (left) are listed. The names were initially expected due to a 'translation' mix up, but later said a 'error' led to their printing on pages 128 and 324 of the book, which has the tag 'Final Battle' in Holland. Colleagues who translate books from English into Dutch told MailOnline that it would be "unthinkable" for the women to insert the names themselves unless they were already in the manuscript. 'I find it very odd that a translator would mention names that weren't present in their English translation, particularly in the case of such a crucial subject.'

According to a leading crime blogger, AI can be used by the world's best-loved authors to help write their books 'within a few years'. In the new thriller in his detective story, Ajay Chowdhury admits he has already turned to the technology to help his hero. He also used ChatGPT to speed up research and creating story suggestions, while AI editing software was used to raise the tempo and 'jazz' in his prose. According to him, the process cut the time it took to get a 'decent draft' to his publisher by a third. His confession comes as thousands of writers are fighting the technology, which they allege is using their words without permission or credit.

The Gold, the BBC's new Sunday night drama, came to an end last night. I'm delighted that a second series has been ordered. It all started with a 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery, with six men breaking into a warehouse near Heathrow in the hopes of stealing £1 million but instead crashing upon a gold bullion worth about £26 billion. But how to move that amount of gold? Any gold purchased in the United Kingdom since 1984 is expected to have traces of Brink's-Mat bullion, according to one of the nuggets relayed.