Articles...
Nov 8 2007
SHE could have been in a picture-book, the sort of brown-eyed granny that everyone would have loved – kind, proud, occasionally fanciful, and unfailingly smart, with a keen and wise mind, which missed nothing, particularly where her wayward, wide-smiling grandson, Alfie, was concerned....
Nov 1 2007
HE HAD one of those smiling, quizzical and alert faces, which seemed to have been squeezed from the mosses of his native Ireland....
Oct 31 2007
SHE was blonde and silken-legged, a young darling of stage and screen, who was the radio girlfriend of the lugubrious Tony Hancock, then Britain’s favourite comedian....
Oct 30 2007
HE TYPED one of the great documents of military history, this angular figure with the kind eyes and wide smile, who was proud to be a man of facts....
Oct 29 2007
SHE wrote cook-books for women who had little interest in slaving away over a hot stove, and in her independent thinking was years ahead of her time....
Oct 26 2007
AS WIDOW to a famous British composer, she was known by her illustrious surname, but Ursula Vaughan Williams, who has died, aged 96, was also a talented librettist and poet....
Oct 25 2007
THERE was Frank and Dean, Peter and Sammy and then there was Joey, possibly the least known and definitely the last surviving of the infamous Hollywood “Rat Pack”....
Oct 24 2007
ONE of the founding members of the paramilitary Ulster Defence Association, the self-styled “Dolly Parton of Belfast”, has died, aged 62....
Oct 23 2007
A CZECH fighter pilot who escape his occupied homeland to battle doggedly against the Nazis from abroad for the rest of the war has died, aged 89....
Oct 22 2007
TO THE brave airmen lost in a strange land, she was the Little Mother. To the Gestapo’s torturers, she was just a slip of a girl....
