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Anne Kirkbride – leading actress in “Corrie” dead at Sixty.

Anne Kirkbride who played Deirdre Barlow in Coronation Street – Britain’s longest running soap story on ITV, has died after keeping her cancer illness a secret from the press, and many others, so the news came as something of a shock to her fans, colleagues and admirers. Some of her Corrie cast members only heard…

Dial f for contested Divorce cases

Nearly half of all scrupulous divorce solicitors are using Facebook to help prove their contested divorce cases. People unknowingly leave a digital foot print through their posts, pictures, comments, likes and dislikes and ongoing log of our lives in Facebook. The social network provides evidence of infidelity and can reveal some financial details. The very…

EU lifts ban on Alfanso Indian mangoes

Finally, it took 9 months for The European Union to lift an import ban on Indian mangoes including Alfanso ( Champagne of mangoes) , after they found in 207 Indian consignments infested with fruit flies t which they fear could harm European salad crops back in May 2014. Critics argue then this ban was disproportionate and…

The jargon of World Cup Cricket Venues

The 2015 , 11th ICC Cricket World Cup, One of the World’s largest international sports tournaments with 14 competing teams and over 400 accredited cricketers and officials taking part in it. The tournament is scheduled to be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand for the second time ( first being the 1992 Cricket World Cup),…

Ethel Lang (maiden name Lancaster) from Barnsley South Yorkshire died last Thursday 15th January in a nursing home aged 114. Born on 27 May 1900, she is regarded as the last person in Britain to have been born during the reign of Queen Victoria. She lived through the reign of six monarchs, two world wars…

THE PRICE OF GOLD IS ON THE RISE THIS YEAR – GOLD FACTS !

Ingots and coins are also popular in addition to jewellery The Gold, as we all know, is a metal which is used for making decorative jewellery for women and men, girls and boys. It is also used for medicine, dentistry, the aircraft industry and electronics ( as gold is a excellent conductor of electricity). Investors…

A Saturn Herald poem reminds us to respect the good things in life.

OK the New Year has brought bills and austerity and news on adverse weather conditions and terrorism so perhaps before getting down, we all need to look at the positives in a poem. Here it is. Written by someone with more than 20 years’ experience in poetry, song, and other writing it simply tells us…

Newborns have reduced from 665,000 a year – 1960’s – to 380,000 in the 90s and after………. The Ojeda Artiles family was awarded the National Birth Prize in 1969 when leader Francisco Franco handed out a “National Birth Prize” to couples with the largest families. “Official media” at the time featured many stories on this. The…

You know Rolling Stone Magazine? – Well they put The Pope on the cover!

“Up close, Pope Francis, the 266th vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth, a man whose obvious humility, empathy and, above all, devotion to the economically disenfranchised has come to feel perfectly suited to our times, looks stouter than on television,” the article in Rolling Stone announces. Mark Binelli is the journalist who wrote the 7,700…