Brenda Fricker, the Oscar-winning actress who played opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, has died at the age of 81 following a period of ill health.

A signed David Hockney print discovered in a donated book has sold for more than £41,000.

Fricker won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as Bridget Fagan Brown in 1989’s My Left Foot, opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, who also won an Oscar for his portrayal of an Irishman named C...