Новости за 24.03.2018

CLOSING in on Heptonstall, the Yorkshire village where I and my two children would be staying for a three-day break, the roads became more winding and steeper. I was forced to drop into second gear and step on the accelerator to have any chance of making it up the near-vertical high street.

As a horticultural agony aunt earlier in my career, I came across most of the foolish things that folks do in or to their gardens. Common landscaping accidents come top of the list.

WHENEVER he visited the zoo as a child Ellis Daw was always appalled at the cramped, horrifying conditions the animals were forced to live in. It was the reason many years later that he opened Dartmoor Wildlife Park, a haven which offered animals the chance to roam.

FOR more than three decades Katie Boyle exuded glamour and poise and proved to be a natural in front of the camera whether it was hosting the Eurovision Song Contest, appearing on What's My Line? or advertising Camay soap.

MAURITANIA? Where’s that? Is it near Mauritius? This was the most frequent response when I told friends where I was going last week. Others looked vague and then brightened up, saying: “Have a good holiday!” You wouldn’t go to Mauritania for a holiday.

INDEPENDENCE DAY is fast approaching.

READING the latest unauthorised biography of Prince Charles - Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion And Defiance Of Prince Charles, by veteran hack biographer Tom Bower - has made me feel slightly sick.

JEREMY CORBYN's reluctance to believe that Vladimir Putin is responsible for the poisoning of the Skripals has some supporters.

THERE are a few plants to which we have a sentimental attachment.

"IT'S LIKE Britain 30 years ago,” our driver cheerfully announced, as we bounced around in the back of an airport bus.

FORGET Beverly Hills. Right now, the hottest part of Los Angeles is Koreatown, a formerly run-down quarter right in the centre of the city.