Sarah Oliver

Oct 3, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Sarah Oliver

Hard as it may be to imagine anyone eclipsing the sex appeal of Ross Poldark by being darker, sexier and even better with horses, someone has. Yes, ladies of Great Britain, Rupert Campbell-Black has landed straight from the pages of Jilly Cooper’s 1988 bonkbuster Rivals on your screens here in 2024, and you are all in trouble. A lot of trouble. Rupert gives the best riding britches and bronzed biceps since Aidan Turner was seen scything topless.

Sep 7, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Sarah Oliver |Sanchez Manning

A former RAF engineer and his wife are signing up to become the first British couple to use a double suicide pod. Peter and Christine Scott, who have been married for 46 years, made the decision after former nurse Christine, 80, was diagnosed with early-stage vascular dementia several weeks ago. The couple want to travel to Switzerland to die in each other's arms in the death capsule – known as the Sarco – to mark the end of their long and happy marriage.

Sep 6, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Sarah Oliver

Beneath a vaulted ceiling of mildewed brick is a scuffed wooden stage, the spiritual home of Merseybeat. Spotlights twinkle in the twin silvery mirrors of the sixties microphones waiting for the Cavern Club’s next big thing, a new band called the Beatles. Local Liverpool businessman Brian Epstein, elegant in a bespoke suit, silk tie and calfskin shoes, drops off his cashmere coat with the girl in the hat-check cubby, Cilla White, or Cilla Black as she will become, and joins the expectant crowd.

Sep 3, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Sarah Oliver

There can be few documentaries about great men that start with them sitting on the loo. But this one, about Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, begins in the smallest room in the house. He's not hiding in the WC though, the scene is from his hit 2015 Ukrainian sitcom Servant Of The People, in which an ordinary chap accidentally gets elected president.

Jul 19, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Sarah Oliver

They were the men from the ministry – Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Their commander was the man who inspired Ian Fleming’s James Bond and their most inventive killer a Dane whose weapon of choice was a bow and arrow.