Articles...
Jan 17 2008
TO HIS friends, it seemed like a Damascene conversion. For the brilliant light that shone in his station-wagon, also filled the Kiwi pleasure-seeker with the holy spirit and this started him rolling on an extraordinary and inspirational career, which would end in a pulpit in the glass town of St Helens....
Jan 16 2008
WHEN the song, which would become a big hit, was first heard on the radio, the reaction of many listeners was, “Is that the Searchers?”...
Jan 15 2008
HE WAS only a little chap, the boy soldier, who blew the sweetest cornet in town, but to those who loved him, and they were many, he was the bravest man in the world....
Jan 14 2008
HE WAS perhaps the first-living man to have touched Heaven, this beekeeper’s son with the broad smile and strong shoulders, who exemplified the qualities then expected of our heroes....
Jan 11 2008
AFTER The Beatles split up, people considered their possible solo careers. “What will happen to Ringo?” was a question often asked....
Jan 11 2008
BUSINESSMAN Sir John Harvey-Jones has died after a long illness, it was reported last night....
Jan 10 2008
TO THE amputees of the slums and the victims of landmines, he was a saint on Earth, who had developed an artificial foot for the poor....
Jan 9 2008
THE paintings of the carpenter’s son were not to everyone’s liking, but the patterns he created through richly coloured arcs and vectors were greatly admired by some, helping him to win first prize at the 1978 John Moores exhibition in the Walker Gallery, Liverpool....
Jan 8 2008
HE WAS in many ways the embodiment of the American dream – offering the new land his exuberance, talent and love of life, free from the persecution suffered by his ancestors....
Jan 7 2008
IN THE sensitive crumple of his face, there shone the smile of a man who enjoys a drink, but is called by the devil to take one too many....
