Helen Flanagan has written a tribute to her grandmother after she died earlier this week. The Coronation Street star, aged 31, shared photos of her ‘Nanna Nancy’, who was in her 90s, to Instagram. Helen – mum to Matilda, aged six, Delilah, three, and son Charlie, 13 months – ‘My Nanna passed away this week. I loved… Continue reading SOFT SOAPS AND SADNESS AS HELEN’S GRANNY DIES

They blasted canons over her head, idiot grandson Harry dripped sweetness like a cracked coconut, Britain’s secret party-going politicians paid their fines and waved ‘yoohoo’ to her. And The Queen posed with two white horses and had some egg-nog. And then they gave her a Barbie doll! Well, at 96 when you’re not well, grieving… Continue reading DO YOU THINK THESE’LL FIT ON MY NEW BIRTHDAY BARBIE, HARRY?

William Roache has said he has “no intention of retiring”. He’s 90 years old now and still crops up on our screens every week or so. The actor, who will turn 90 on 25 April, has appeared as Ken Barlow in the ITV soap for more than 60 years and holds a Guinness World Record… Continue reading A CORRIE JOLLY AS BILL SAYS I’LL KEEP ON ACTING AT 90 (THAT’S GOOD BILL, YOU’VE NEVER MANAGED IT BEFORE – OH NO! DON’T SUE ME, IT’S A BIRTHDAY JOKE, JUST A JOKE…)

The Preservation Society has been allowed to use much of Alan Bennett’s writing over the years about his never-ending search for brother Keith, a victim of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. I first met Alan way back in the early Eighties, although I doubt he will remember me particularly. At the time he was often… Continue reading Alan tells of his Moors search for ‘lost boy’ brother Keith Bennett

Yep, Dylan reveals new tour dates And the first stop along the way will be the town of Spokane with its fish trucks and mountain shadows. It’s the first time in more than two decades that he’s performed in Spokane and he will be at First Interstate Center for the Arts on May 28. Spokane… Continue reading It’s a restless hungry feeling that does everyone some good…

I’ve not even had an egg-nog for Easter. This religiously-based festival with its focus on chick-chick-chick-chick chickens, chocolate eggs, rubbish telly and bob-tailed bunnies has left my tongue as dry as a pair of the Baby Jesus’s discarded flip-flops. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and anybody else who is reading, I can no… Continue reading A bunny thing happened on way to the pub, beery Brits helped me out by downing 150m pints for Easter!

By Andrew John Teague A message to parents – keep on keeping on. We know your pain. We know when the special times come around the feelings are amplified. This time Easter but can be anytime  Please reach out we are here to lend a hand 1. Contact denial. 2. Mental health. 3. Psychological injury… Continue reading It’s these special days alone when we all need help

The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned the Boris’s shocking plan to send fleeing migrants thousands of miles to Rwanda in his Easter sermon. He said the proposals – hammered through by Priti Patel – as the “opposite of the nature of God”. In his sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby criticised the plans to ship… Continue reading BISHOP ATTACKS BORIS OVER RWANDA – IT IS AN ‘UNGODLY’ PLAN, HE SAYS

Rwanda is generally a nice place to be nowadays. It’s warm but not too hot. And cool in the evenings because its thousand mountains are five thousand feet in the air. The people are very nice and friendly and, if you migrate (or are exiled there) you need about £100 a week to live on… Continue reading Bunny ‘boiler’ Boris’s bog-off deal for migrants – bog off to bloody Rwanda

Well, what a telling photograph this has turned out to be … a multi-layered commentary on the state of our beleaguered nation. This picture was taken last year, just after we arrived back in the UK from five years abroad. We drove in to a fuel crisis caused by HGV drivers and the like blocking… Continue reading Loneliness of the long-distance fuel hunter as we go back to the future on £10 a gallon