Articles...
Aug 17 2007
POLITICIANS and historians would later declare it the worst atrocity in Nazi-occupied France, and Heinz Barth not only stood by and let it happen but took an active role....
Aug 16 2007
ALTHOUGH hailed as the “cleverest Conservative of them all”, John, later Lord, Biffen, who has died aged 76, was “not one of us” in Margaret Thatcher’s chilling phrase. Yet his skill, honesty and charm meant he was promoted by her for many years....
Aug 15 2007
LUCY, Cary and Bob may have got the laughs, but they weren’t always the ones who crafted the words. For when Lucille Ball, Cary Grant and Bob Hope were looking for a gag man, they looked in Melville Shavelson’s direction....
Aug 14 2007
THE US entertainer, Merv Griffin, who has died from prostate cancer, created the internationally successful TV game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy....
Aug 13 2007
CHARLES Leslie Bibby, who has died, aged 90, not only carried a distinguished Liverpool family name that was known worldwide through shipping and agriculture, but had a high profile as a company director himself....
Aug 10 2007
A CONFESSION to the police used to be considered the ultimate proof that a defendant was guilty of the crime for which he was accused....
Aug 9 2007
SIR Nicholas Nuttall, third baronet, who has died, aged 73, of cancer, was the last of his family to be directly linked with the great construction company Edmund Nuttall, which built two of Merseyside’s most famous 20th-century creations....
Aug 8 2007
WHEN James Bond author John Gardner suffered a heart attack, he shrugged it off, telling doctors that he would be fine....
Aug 7 2007
HIS songs have been covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to Courtney Love, but it is for a song about female footwear that Lee Hazlewood will always be remembered....
Aug 6 2007
SOME pale young men stalking the cellar clubs of suburban England, wearing cotton-pickin’ denims from the Deep South of the USA, had the brazen cheek to mock the wonderful Irish balladeer for wearing an Aran sweater, which suggested to them that he was drifting towards commercial folk-singing – a great sin to those purists....
