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Rejoice at end-of-term rush-hour bliss

9:58am Friday 1st August 2008

Ah! What bliss it is to travel on the roads during the rush hour at the moment.

Is it a melon or a lemon?

Do you want your melon to taste like a lemon?

9:57am Friday 1st August 2008

EVERY now and then you read something so wondrously stupid, so preposterously ridiculous, your mouth dries out before you realise it has been open for three weeks.

Tongue-tied with Monty

Reporter Neil Skinner interviewing his sporting hero Monty Panesar.

9:56am Friday 18th July 2008

I WROTE a few weeks back about my love of meeting famous and talented people.

Possessed by Prom Night pomp

Possessed by Prom Night pomp

9:52am Friday 18th July 2008

Would you spend £600 on a dress for your teenage daughter in the sure and certain knowledge that she will wear it only once?

A case of mistaken identity

David Dawson relaxes with last week’s paper.

8:53am Friday 11th July 2008

Whoever was responsible for naming local newspapers, I think it is fair to say, lacked a touch of imagination.

They need more than magic knickers

8:49am Friday 11th July 2008

IT seems that you can’t switch on the telly these days without tuning into a programme featuring a woman resembling a slack-jawed haddock having her life transformed by a posse of equally gruesome fashionistas.

Pale and interesting beats 'orange'

10:08am Friday 4th July 2008

ACCORDING to several articles I’ve read recently, white is the new brown. This year, only the most passé will be taking a lead from the David Dickinson school of mahogany skincare, instead pale and interesting is the look we should aim for.

Pulling power Olympic-style

9:44am Friday 4th July 2008

I WAS told by a concerned reader last week that my Diary musings had become a bit too negative; troubling yet amusing rants about things (or people) I don’t like very much.

Queen lookalike on Civic duty

Queen look-alike Mary Reynolds at Crown Honda.

4:41pm Monday 9th June 2008

Motorists in Bushey concerned about hallucinogenic episodes suffered in and around the High Road last Saturday needn't worry after all.

Celebrity? Can’t see it myself

3:26pm Friday 30th May 2008

Celebrity. It's a word I hate so much that I avoid its use wherever possible, even if the "celebrity" concerned is worthy of the title - which most are not.


UK Sport News

Bolt clinches sprint double

Usain Bolt

Updated 8:25pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

Jamaica's Usain Bolt on Wednesday night became the first man to win the Olympic sprint double for 24 years with his second world record in five days in Beijing.


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