Leslie Bricusse’s sole showbusiness connection was that his grandmother had scrubbed the steps of the Apollo Theatre, opposite Victoria Station.

Incredibly, by the time he died yesterday, aged 90, Bricusse was

Friends of mine will tell you that I am generally quite a level-headed person. Good in a crisis, calm in a storm, lamps lit and all that. Solid and down-to-earth, not

To the bitter end, Dennis Hutchings vowed to clear his name. At 3pm on Monday afternoon, he was sitting alone in his Belfast hotel when the Daily Mail called.

His trial