Articles...
Aug 8 2008
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....
Aug 7 2008
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....
Aug 6 2008
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....
Aug 4 2008
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....
Aug 1 2008
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,...
Jul 31 2008
HIS going was different – almost like a Hollywood weepie without the violins, soft voices and squeezed hands....
Jul 30 2008
WHEN the old Liberal Party was divided between, on the one side, people growing red beards and wearing sandals and fishermen’s pullovers, and, on the other, by those enthusiastic for power, the man in the kilt, also a vigorous shinty player, was much favoured by the former group....
Jul 29 2008
THEIR faces were destroyed because hate had filled the hearts of some men, but those faces were remade by the love of other men, who knew that human life was precious....
Jul 25 2008
IT WAS a bold idea, particularly for American TV, which traditionally tried to beautify human frailties, including old age....
Jul 24 2008
SOMETIMES she was known as Darlene Edwards and, when she was parodying the hilly-billy style and drawling speech, she favoured Cinderella G Stump....
