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Ben Murphy, at the Princes Park gates

New book reveals the historic heritage of Liverpool’s famous open spaces

WE take our parklands for granted, but here David Charters reveals their originsRead

George McNabb

HE DIED peacefully with his family around him, far away from the noisy, fog-cast docklands, where he grew up in a Liverpool community hardened by circumstances but never slow to embrace strangers.Read

How we lit the Olympic flame

As the biggest audience in world history anticipates the Olympics in Beijing, we remember the Liverpool origins of the modern Games. David Charters reportsRead

Fund to restore Hulley’s grave

A FUND has been started to restore the grave of John Hulley, who rests in Toxteth Park Cemetery, Smithdown Road, Liverpool.Read

Artist Tony Brown with his portrait of George Harrison

Portrait of George Harrison completes epic work which recognises 100 Liverpool greats

WITH this magnificent portrait of George Harrison, a Liverpool artist has completed an epic work in praise of the city he loves.Read

Pauline Baynes

THERE was perhaps a sadness hidden in the smile of the white-haired lady from the lovely cottage, whose piercing imagination opened the world behind the blinds, where children could see everything and touch nothing.Read

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

HE WILL not be remembered for the laughter he brought us, but the man with the ever-mournful face had an intellect so big that it became the conscience of many, carrying the sorrows and hate of a world shredded by doctrine and greed.Read

David Charters: Sadly, steady work and red wine make uneasy partners

SOME people accept us for what we seem to be. Others want to know what we really are. The second group are the more important and dangerous, for they have a better understanding of human nature.Read

John Norman

THERE was, this being Wales, due consideration given to a cup of tea, but there was also dedication to the job, which arose from the enthusiasm of the workers.Read

Evelyn Keyes

Evelyn Keyes

IT WAS perhaps unfortunate that the sultry actress, whose bed was rarely cold, could have been married to her third husband at the time he was presented with a self-willed chimpanzee by another Hollywood siren,Read

Randy Pausch

HIS going was different – almost like a Hollywood weepie without the violins, soft voices and squeezed hands.Read

Spencer Leigh next to the John Lennon statue in Mathew Street, Liverpool

Spencer Leigh’s the rebel without a pause

"I HAVE been on film for longer than James Dean," says the authority on popular culture, as he settles his light frame on the corner of the double bed in the John Lennon suite at the Hard Days Night Hotel, Liverpool.Read

David Charters: Summer holidays, like Christmas, are to be anticipated rather than enjoyed

‘GOOD Heavens! Teabags on strings, eh. Don’t we live in an exciting and ever-improving world,” I said to my wife, while the kettle burped and bupped to the boil, under the Italian-wood fittings of the kitchen, found behind the conservatory on the south wing of our home.Read

Iconic father of Liverpool’s culture

Iconic father of Liverpool’s culture

WHEN musing on Liverpool’s culture, our thoughts turn to the masters of baton, string and wind, letters, clay and canvas, but who was our first Renaissance man? David Charters reportsRead

Harry McLeish who worked at Cammell Laird shipyard in 1939 when the submarine Thetis set sail.

Tragedy of the Thetis

SEVENTY years ago, a shipyard apprentice watched the launch of the Thetis. A year later she dived, and 99 men died. Now that apprentice lives with his memories. David Charters reports.Read

Estelle Getty

IT WAS a bold idea, particularly for American TV, which traditionally tried to beautify human frailties, including old age.Read

Jo Stafford

SOMETIMES she was known as Darlene Edwards and, when she was parodying the hilly-billy style and drawling speech, she favoured Cinderella G Stump.Read

Blondie's Debbie Harry on form at the Liverpool Summer Pops

MUSIC REVIEW: Blondie and The Stranglers, Summer Pops, Liverpool

ROCK and roll is forever, but rock and rollers aren’t immortal until a great song thunders from the stage and trem-bles the souls of those gathered below, blowing away the years in celebration of what used to be and still can be – in your dreams.Read

Exhibition for OAPs

AN EXHIBITION to help pensioners take up arts and crafts by showing them the work of others is being held at 1pm tomorrow at St John’s School, Liverpool Road, Ainsdale.Read

Lord Stokes

IT WAS said that the man, with glinting spectacles and an enthusiasm for double-decker buses, could have sold Morris Marinas to Marsh Arabs.Read