Once, as I searched through the dusty old contacts book of a British eveningnewspaper I came across the home telephone number of Brigitte Bardot.St Tropez 271.Every so often, perhaps when I’d had a couple of beers too many, I’d dial it.Never got any answer, just an insistent and foreign-sounding bleat down theline. But somehow that …
Police and family have been barred from opening Brady’s suitcase of secrets for decades … now new law gives them the key Alan Bennett says a new Parliamentary Bill will help him finally find the body of his brother, murdered by monsters Ian Brady and Myra Hindley more than 60 years ago. Brady, the madman …
The chaps are at it again, putting the world’s wrongs to right #Portugal #hauntings #ghosts #transgender
Bob loves Elvis, no doubt. After all Elvis was the God of rock n roll, beautiful, handsome, sensual, wild, wiggly, outrageous and with a voice to sell your soul for. And Bob was at the crossroads. It was 1959 and Bob was in Fargo and was banging out ivory-clad bullets of rock for the Poor …
Lagos, the city of mysteries. Ghosts of slaves in the marketplace – visions of a saint next to the golden church.When I arrived, one of the mysteries to me was why its pronounced with a ssshhh … Lago-ssshhh.Well, after a few days here, I can tell you: Somebody in a bar described Lagos as the …
The 54-year-old tennis star was declared bankrupt in 2017, owing creditors almost £50m, over an unpaid loan of more than £3m on his estate in Mallorca, Spain. Now he has been found guilty of transferring hundreds of thousands from his business account and failing to declare a property in his hometown of Leimen in Germany. …
Eric Lastick is a strange man. He looks lived in, like an old rooming house knocked out and loaded from the inside. He’s spent his life inside this badly-built walk-on-stilts high-rise of rooms called things like Hope, Aspiration, Dream… … and still, today, he stares from his rain-melting ancient windows into glistening streets and memories. …
Wanna buy this Sputnik? It fell off the back of a spaceship… As mad bad Putin threatens again to launch a speed-of-lightning nuclear attack on the world, just how do we survive? Do we take off our internal doors and make a ‘wooden tent’ out of them in our lounge so that we can be …
Russia is mobilising marine mammals to protect a key Black Sea naval base, according to war experts. Satellite images are said to show what military experts believe are two dolphin pens floating off the mouth of its key navy base in Sevastopol harbor off Crimea. Military analyst H.I. Sutton first broke the news in the …
The Society welcomes the fact that Durham police are to re-examining Sir Keir Starmer‘s beer and pizza ‘party’ at a constituency stop-off while on the campaign trail at the height of Covid fears in the UK. To the Labour leader, Boris’s own party-time, for which he was fined by the Met Police, has taken up more of …
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