‘before i went to northern ireland, i’d never heard a bomb go off’

Each issue we investigate the most ghostly places to visit. Here we take a look at the dark side of Northern Ireland’s capital Belfast

I look at pictures from my school days and the memories of that period instantly come flooding back. Thoughts of secondary school are quite mixed, with just as many negative ones as positive. But my p

I was up in Aviemore recently for a spot of Winter Munro bagging and general Highland tomfoolery. As always I ended up buying a couple of books while I was there and am currently working my way to the

Ihadn’t heard from Roy Biddle in nearly thirty years when he called my home number. This was 1991, and an October day when brown, slippery leaves coated the pavement outside our west London house. Roy

THE INSIDE STORY

Our columnist watched the Libyan dictator attempt to demolish a border post using a digger – with distinctly comic results