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Sir Michael Parkinson and Dickie Bird receive honorary degrees

Retired chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson and former Test cricket umpire Dickie Bird came together in their home town to receive honorary degrees. Yorkshiremen Sir Michael Parkinson and Dickie Bird receive their honorary...

Joan Rivers joins battle against osteoporosis

Exercise helps brittle bones, so I go once a week to Tiffany's and lift diamonds ... Joan Rivers joins battle against osteoporosis By Hilary Freeman Comedienne Joan Rivers finds it difficult to be serious, especially when it...

In pursuit of a full heart and a full mind

I feel slightly fraudulent. I was under the impression you needed more than two O levels to get to university. My education consisted of attending school for the minimum time required by the law. I was encouraged by Winston...

KEITH WATERHOUSE: Putting us right about that pudding

Perfect puds: Mrs Beeton's old recipe has been usurped The Royal Society of Chemistry, that dispensary of (on the whole) good works around the hemisphere, has given out, in the person of its distinguished member Dr John Emsley,...

Sport on TV: Ali gets under Frazier's skin, and Tull fights for recognition

Smokin' Joe is still fuming. As the US civil rights movement reaches its zenith, 'Thriller in Manila' (More 4, Tuesday) laid bare a festering hatred between two of the country's greatest black heroes, Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.

England's World Cup final winners 2003: Whatever happened to...?

Next Saturday is the fifth anniversary of the greatest moment in English rugby history: November 22, 2003; the day Martin Johnson lifted the Webb Ellis Cup and England were champions of the world. Johnno and his heroes: Martin...

Exercise helps brittle bones, so I go once a week to Tiffany's and lift diamonds ... Joan Rivers...

Comedienne Joan Rivers finds it difficult to be serious, especially when it comes to her famously nipped and tucked body, but her bones are rarely a laughing matter. Helping hand: The image being used in the X-ray exhibition of...

Laugh? Not at these old witless windbags

Peter Ustinov, who died four years ago, bizarrely featured in two nostalgia programmes during the week. On Gaybo Laughs Back (RTE1) we saw him in a Late Late Show clip from the 1970s, while over on BBC4 he was the subject of...

PreChristmas sales at record level as retailers try and tempt credithit shoppers

High street retailers are offering the greatest number of pre-Christmas bargains in history as they try to win over customers in the wake of the credit crisis. By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Editor Shoppers this weekend can...

Can you keep a secret?

There is little more seductive than a secret. Tomorrow, a long-suffering queue of eagle-eyed art enthusiasts will snake around the Royal College of Art for the 15th Secret Postcard exhibition and charity sale. Ardent punters...

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