A NEW book which examines the deaths of children during the Troubles has uncovered an additional nine losses, which have never been publicly recorded, bringing the total to 186.

BOOK OF THE WEEK The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott is published in hardback by Hutchinson, priced £12.

WHEN a 16-year-old Lenny Henry won the talent show New Faces in 1975 with his comic impersonations of Frank Spencer and Tommy Cooper, he couldn't have imagined he'd go on to be an award-winning Shakespearean actor and charity ambassador with a knighthood.

ON A steep road leading out of Wexford town stands a house called Old Court.

BOOK OF THE WEEK The Dutch House by Ann Patchett is published in hardback by Bloomsbury, priced £18.

"PEOPLE have this image of me, face down in whatever's available," explains restaurant critic and MasterChef judge Jay Rayner, somewhat irked.

CHRISTOPHER Eccleston greets me warmly, ready for the inevitable questions over his revelations that he has had anorexia and body dysmorphia for most of his life, suffered a breakdown and had suicidal thoughts just a few years ago.

"IF THIS interview isn't on every front page in the world by next week," says Jeffrey Archer, "you're fired!" He's joking, of course, but if there's a man used to the front pages, it's Archer.