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
As the biggest audience in world history anticipates the Olympics in Beijing, we remember the Liverpool origins of the modern Games. David Charters reportsRead
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
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
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
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
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
"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
‘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
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
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
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
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
Award-winning feature writer and columnist David Charters is a highly-respected journalist and author whose hugely-popular weekly column is now available in print and podcast format.
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