Eighties punk rocker Hazel O'Connor claims she was sexually assaulted by cult British comedian Benny Hill in his London flat in 1976.

Toyah Wilcox, 63, says her friend Hazel O'Connor is 'in good hands' after she suffered a bleed on the brain earlier this month. Hazel, 66, was found at her home in France after suffering a 'serious medical event' and was placed in a coma for 24 hours.

It turned unknown punk singer Hazel O'Connor into a household name, but that wasn't the only way that art imitated life in the 1980 movie

Singer was due to tour the UK in March

I remember the first time I met Hazel O'Connor. She was performing her new one-woman show, Beyond Breaking Glass, at the Fringe.

Given the revival of interest in eighties music it’s no surprise that Hazel O’Connor played to a full house at the Corn Hall. But to attribute her success merely to nostalgia would be to greatly undervalue a singer/songwriter that has continually reinvented herself. In a career that stretches from Blackman to Wakey Wakey O’Connor has remained unapologetically polemical, albeit with an underlying humanity. She held her audience spellbound with a selection of her own compositions, ...

The singer suffered a 'serious medical event' on January 17