The death of the country’s best-known TV astrologer is among the top topics in the news in Britain today.

Margaret Lake, known as Mystic Meg, died aged 80 in the early hours of Thursday after being admitted to hospital last month with flu.

Mystic Meg spent the 1990s predicting National Lottery winners.

He also wrote the zodiac for The Sun newspaper for more than two decades.

Lake – in addition to being an astrologer – was also a futurist and worked with runes, crystal balls, tarot and numerology.

Mentalist Uri Geller wrote of Mystic Meg’s death: “The quintessential fortune teller brought mystery and mysticism to millions of believers. Defy the peevish skeptics. Much love and positive energy, Meg, on your further journey.”