My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.

I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.

I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.