Articles...
May 16 2008
IN THE long history of their sport, man and pike have never been equally matched, but the chap in the floppy hat with grizzled whiskers, which suggested that he was auditioning for Emmerdale Farm, narrowed the odds with his cunning introduction of deadbaiting....
May 15 2008
THERE are always stars, but behind them are the people who make them shine – or, in this case, throb, soar, rumble and then pierce the heavens in glorious layers of music....
May 14 2008
SHE was a Catholic nurse with enough bravery to fill a cathedral, and when the skies were dark and the world was mad, she wore a Star of David on her arm to save thousands of Jewish children from the Nazi death camps....
May 12 2008
BORN on a cotton farm in the sultry American south, Eddy Arnold’s background couldn’t have been much further from his legions of listeners in gritty post-war Liverpool....
May 9 2008
LIKE the Roman goddess she was named after, Diana Barnato Walker was beautiful and enjoyed the freedom of the heavens at the cockpit of her Spitfire....
May 8 2008
WITH top gongs dished out to odd entertainers and dubious business folk, Tom Tuohy was a real hero, who never received any major official honour for averting a potentially horrific British nuclear disaster....
May 7 2008
DAVID LIDDELL, of the 12th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), was in command of a company which was ordered to capture the village of Villa Grande, on Italy’s Adriatic coast, which was held by the fearful German 1st Parachute Regiment, on December 23, 1943....
May 6 2008
HE WAS a respectable Catholic boy, a keen horseman and, when he joined the Cavalry in 1936, full of patriotic intentions to mend a country ravaged by war and the Depression. ...
May 5 2008
SHE was the sort of long- limbed Nordic blonde who for millions of British working men in the 1970s, was the very embodiment of the fantasy foreign au pair or saucy nurse....
May 2 2008
IT IS something of a poisoned chalice to become branded as the father of LSD....
