New evidence suggests Vesuvius erupted months later than we have always thought… and Harry Mount says the volcano is bound to blow its top again

As Prince Harry and Meghan Markle embark on an Australian tour, Kensington Palace has announced that she is pregnant. Hugo Vickers praises the revolutionary princess

Jennifer Saunders has hinted there will be a new series of Absolutely Fabulous. At 92, June Whitfield says what fun it has been to appear in the programme

Roger Mainwood (1953-2018) not only directed Ethel & Ernest. He was also an animator on When the Wind Blows and worked on The Snowman and Father Christmas. Raymond Briggs, the author and illustrator of all these works, fondly remembers his collaborator

Peter Jackson's new First World War film, They Shall Not Grow Old, colourises original footage. War historian Joshua Levine praises the venture

A new book, Philip Larkin: Letters Home 1936-1977, reveals that Larkin actually got on very well with his parents. When Miriam Gross interviewed him, she found him jovial, charming and funny – and, yes, he liked his mother and father

The World Obesity Federation has declared that Britain is institutionally prejudiced against the obese. It's all part of the growing fat acceptance movement. Whatever happened to self-control, asks Ferdie Rous

Rail travel is stressful enough without this latest horror, says Nigel Summerley

A study of 10,000 young people has found that nearly a third of today's youth in England do not drink. The late Dr Tom Stuttaford would not have approved, says Harry Mount

John Hopkins, the Cambridge don who founded the Cambridge Pooh Sticks Society, has died at 81. Roger Lewis recalls the difficult life of the first player of Pooh Sticks, Christopher Robin Milne