Dear Simon, I was particularly interested in Sylvia Lee’s item on Cope’s Pools in Yesterday Remembered (Pools Party, December). I worked at the company’s offices in Edmonton, north London in 1966-67.

As many of us look to get fitter and healthier, our columnist recalls how we used to do it!

13 JANUARY

For almost 30 years, Paul O’Grady was seldom off the box. As Lily Savage, he’d hosted Blankety Blank, presented C4’s The Big Breakfast, and been a regular face on ITV’s This Morning. And, minus the pl

Good Morning Britain is facing a new year and a new dawn. And never has the pressure been as great on two women as now. Susanna Reid and Kate Garraway may appear to be the coolest customers on televis

Our columnist was fond of the days between Christmas and the new year for many reasons