Happy birthday! 140 years of the lady

When the Sunday Dispatch newspaper joined forces with Morecambe & Heysham Corporation to create a new tourist attraction for the town, few would have bet more than a shilling that it would still be go

SORRY, did I wake you up?” Linda asked. Her bleary-eyed and pyjama-clad flatmate, Pat, had stumbled into their tiny kitchen one summer morning. “It’s five o’clock in the morning, Linda,” Pat moaned, s

Dear Simon, I have only just got around to reading your June issue with its piece by Cardinal Cox about the relatively modern origins of some supposedly old customs. He refers to Lady Raglan and the G

Fabulous selection of Knitting and Crochet patterns every week in “The People’s Friend”! I love the recent Fair Isle slipcover made in Alpaca Wool. I wish I knew someone who could knit it for me. Such

When I was a child, we had a tortoise called Winnie who had belonged to my father when he was a boy in the 1950s. He called his pet Winston after Churchill, but this name had to be changed when he dis

£50 Star letter Tragic loss Reading Elizabeth Mcaninch-Diamond’s ...