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Mar 3 2008
AT FIRST, you would not have thought the elegant singer with the perfectly groomed hair had much in common with the gently-smiling, rangy figure with his grizzled beard and lumberjack shirt....
Feb 29 2008
IN THE days of long hair and elasticated morals, when the philosophy of doing your own thing was all the rage, right-wing thinkers in American were invariably characterised as crude red-necks eager to pull the trigger – that was before the emergence on TV of William F Buckley Jr, son of oil money....
Feb 28 2008
SIR JOHN HILL, the son of a Chester schools inspector who became one of the early pioneers of the nuclear fuel industry, has died, aged 86....
Feb 27 2008
WHEN she stepped ashore in Liverpool, there was a gentle beauty in her eyes, but the Girl Guides had given her a toughness of spirit and sinew, not entirely suited to her job as a shorthand/typist....
Feb 26 2008
AFTER devouring an eight-omelette breakfast and smearing her body with lanolin and chilli paste, the great swimmer might have considered for a moment her second cousin, LS Lowry, then establishing his reputation as the painter of matchstick people....
Feb 25 2008
THIS darling of the British stage, raised in Berlin between the world wars, had inviting lips, shapely legs and five husbands – as was eagerly noted by an adoring public during her career, in which she helped save a magnificent London theatre and duetted with Laurence Olivier, when he was courting the fiery Vivien Leigh....
Feb 22 2008
SHE WAS created at the age of 80 by a brilliant man, who dressed as a woman to produce a character possessed of both lacerating wit and billowing absurdity....
Feb 21 2008
HE WAS a broth of a boy, quick as the blink of an eye at mental arithmetic and a splendid representative of his school at athletics as well as team games – doubtless helped by a father who taught him to dribble a football between bricks, following the unwavering logic that you don’t want to bruise your toes more than once....
Feb 20 2008
A CHANCE conversation with the leading Liverpool councillor Margaret Simey inspired the daughter of a city grocer to embark on a journey that eventually would lead her to the roof of the world, helping the Tibetan community....
Feb 19 2008
NATURE had not blessed him with the qualities of the regular team player, so the smiling philosopher, with a lust to leave his mark on the world, looked to the wider fields of sporting achievement, breaking numerous records....
