Singer and national treasure Petula Clark on Christmases spent in the French Alps

Traditionally, grandmas aren’t supposed to look like Twiggy. With her blonde shoulder-length hair, youthful complexion and trim figure garbed in a trendy burgundy-hued leather biker-style jacket, hot-

I always felt like something was missing

Martin Neary (Born 1940) Organist and conductor On 31 August, Martin Neary was suddenly presented with the challenge of organising and rehearsing the music for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales

Thanks to the old Sherlock Holmes films that we used to watch on TV every week after the children’s programme Crackerjack had finished, I have known about my family’s “Hollywood relative” since my chi

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,