“I didn’t think much of them at the time.” Robin Askwith, owner of the most famous bare bum in cinema history – his words not mine – is reflecting on the Confessions films. This quartet of “romp-coms” ...

Let's go back to the innocence of the 1970s, when the raunchiest films available in Ireland were Russ Mayer epics such as Supervixens… Let's go back to the innocence of the 1970s, when the raunchiest ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook University donor and alum Bertram Askwith passed away at the age of 104 Monday night, according to ...

FARMERS in Wharfedale and Aireborough are living on a knife-edge after an outbreak of foot and mouth in the area. Fears that the disease could spread down the Wharfe Valley have escalated after 32 ...

TOM ASKWITH, who has died aged 90, rowed for Great Britain in two Olympic games in the 1930s; later, as a colonial administrator in Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau rebellion, he was a spirited ...

Robin Askwith leapt to notoriety in the 1970s as star of the saucy Confessions films. ANDREW WHITE talks to the 'junior Sid James'.. IT WAS the 1970s. British cinema had been trundling along in the ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There is a rich literary tradition that has fed on the nostalgic notion that, a generation earlier, the English countryside was ...

Staff and pupils at a ‘remarkable’ Yorkshire village school are celebrating after being given an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating – with inspectors praising exceptional results throughout the year groups ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...