The bodies of 95-year-old Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, a 63-year-old classical pianist, were 'partially mummified' -revealing the extent to which the couple had isolated themselves.
One of the finest actors of his generation, Hackman embodied the virtue of refusing to take the easy path in Hollywood by allowing oneself to be typecast, writes TOM LEONARD.
This was the week Nigel Farage put his finger on the most serious problem facing our country, with deeply worrying implications for everything my generation was brought up to hold dear.
TOM COLLOMOSSE: Rashford's story is still to be written here and a second-half substitute appearance against a struggling Tottenham side provided few clues about how it will unfold.
Like so many others, I felt a wave of nausea on reading this week of the disgusting mess left for the cleaners to clear up when drunken students ran amok at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge .
The timeline of court cases, claims and counter-claims which culminated in a panel of medical experts announcing that they had uncovered 'one of the major injustices of modern times'.
Top artisanal cheeses are now so valuable they're the target of criminal gangs and are being priced out of restaurants. Tom Parker Bowles weighs up their worth