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Published inForever young: June Whitfield still a force to be reckoned with after 60 years of classic comedy

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  • Farewell to the great Gilson Lavis -drummer, artist and thoroughly decent chap November 12, 2025
  • Musican who was angered and inspired by the action of a witless and blinkered teacher October 16, 2025
  • In memory of Jane Goodall (1934 – 2025) October 2, 2025
  • The remarkable play revealing the behind the scenes friction during the filming of Jaws April 30, 2025
  • How childhood defiance and determination helped name a deep-sea fishing boat. September 22, 2024
  • Revisiting the extraordinary story of Lee Miller as fearless female war photographer September 14, 2024
  • Where did all that time go? You know you’re getting old when your little brother hits 70 September 7, 2024
  • After decades of propelling two tons of ill-maintained metal through crazy Egyptian traffic chances of survival must plummet August 31, 2024
  • It’s certainly a big bad world out there but are parents becoming simply too risk-averse? August 24, 2024
  • Why saying that sad final goodbye never seems to have been quite good enough August 16, 2024
  • Some of my reviews from music and stage – mainly good with some intriguing suprises May 4, 2024
  • Block the Blocks: a message of protest from ‘my friend’ the Folkestone Mermaid April 24, 2024
  • Retrospective celebrates the idyllic final Dorset years of sculptor Elisabeth Frink February 26, 2024
  • TV drama that woke world to the conviction and sacking of innocent sub postmasters January 9, 2024
  • Aladdin: Buckle up for a real magic carpet ride for the whole family in pantoland December 11, 2023
  • Invading a medieval castle in hot pursuit of a secret Macca and Wings recording session December 6, 2023
  • How Barbara Hepworth’s magical St Ives sculpture garden was inspired by music November 22, 2023
  • Lucy Kemp-Welch: a brilliant artist who was sidelined by gender, war and modernism November 2, 2023
  • Saving the threatened words that keep our children in touch with the wonders of nature November 2, 2023
  • Victorian travel photographer John Thomson’s travels in Siam and Cambodia October 31, 2023
  • How Tina dumped abusive husband Ike and eventually found fame at a whole new level May 25, 2023
  • Back to the days of the anti-heptagonists? June 7, 2022
  • The woman who shot Warhol’s Marilyns May 20, 2022
  • Memories of Sven and Julia Berlin May 15, 2022
  • Boris Johnson and the scandal of the care system he claims to have fixed April 24, 2022
  • Brothers in covid quarantine: It’s 50 years since we spent this much time together. January 16, 2022
  • Desmond Tutu: Remembering a lifelong champion of peace, love and understanding December 27, 2021
  • Home grown panto at Poole’s Lighthouse proves such a beautiful beast of a show December 13, 2021
  • Huge new gallery marks GIANT leap for art in the ‘cultural desert’ that is Bournemouth August 8, 2021
  • Talented young Dorset actor Jamie hits Brighton’s mods and rockers battlefield June 6, 2021
  • London Repertory Players take summer thriller Ira Levin’s Deathtrap to Wimborne June 4, 2021
  • The art deco gem where Harold Pinter swapped stage for page to be reborn May 31, 2021
  • Remembering Cumberland Clark doyen of doggerel who went from bard to verse May 24, 2021
  • The day Colonel John Blashford Snell blew up a village fish pond hunting killer ‘Jaws’ May 11, 2021
  • The strange world of sculptor and self-styled ‘rebellious old sod’ Geoffrey Dashwood April 27, 2021
  • Memories of best-selling fantasy novelist David A. Gemmell and death on the page January 19, 2021
  • The day town crier Chris banned Bob Dylan from his own Glastonbury dressing room December 31, 2020
  • The man who would be Stan – how bogus Kubrick fooled the stars of summer season December 26, 2020
  • Meeting Vietnam war legend Tim Page December 23, 2020
  • The beauty caressed by the classical masters December 5, 2020
  • Death off the Nile – a cautionary tale December 1, 2020
  • Brothers in arms laid to rest in a foreign field and reunited shoulder to shoulder in death November 24, 2020
  • Danube river cruise (2009) November 23, 2020
  • Morocco (2010) November 23, 2020
  • Travels in Cambodia and Vietnam November 23, 2020
  • Captain Oates: penguins, antelopes and cockroaches in the Hampshire countryside November 17, 2020
  • Whatever happened to Margo? September 16, 2020
  • Hot new screen actor Jamie demonstrates the fine art of bringing home the Bacon July 28, 2020
  • Accident or assassination? The question that haunts the story of Lawrence of Arabia July 26, 2020
  • Ronnie Wood (72) “I never got past 29 in my head. I didn’t expect time to go so quickly” February 4, 2020
  • Damned if you do, damned if you don’t even though Chappo’s still got it 50 years on Oz February 1, 2020
  • Chappo, Family and friends half a century on January 29, 2020
  • Judy: Still rattling the chandeliers at 80 January 19, 2020
  • Walking in Memphis in memory of Elvis January 8, 2020
  • Campaign to honour Elisabeth Scott an award-winning architect forgotten by history January 6, 2020
  • Rejected for being ‘too old’ 40 years ago December 20, 2019
  • Nicholas Parsons – the final show revisited November 18, 2019
  • From the sizzling Grange Hill sausage to the colour and thrill of the fairground October 14, 2019
  • Pinter probes chaos in a world full of alcohol September 19, 2019
  • k.d. pays tribute to the power of youth July 25, 2019
  • What links a voice coach, Frankenstein, a dead poet and Bournemouth summer rep? July 19, 2019
  • McKellen celebrates birthday on 80 stages July 2, 2019
  • A town transformed by art March 13, 2019
  • Memories, markers and special times February 18, 2019
  • Pages of the Sea – lamenting the madness of 1914-1918 and the boys who never came home November 12, 2018
  • Remembering the fascinating and illustrious roots of Folkestone’s annual autumn book-fest October 4, 2018
  • From leap to freedom to dance of death – tragic final days of ballet star Nureyev September 26, 2018
  • Dorothea’s dustbowl migrants and Tom McGuinness on Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup September 11, 2018
  • Buy my lamps you won’t need drugs – a compelling and effective marketing slogan July 2, 2018
  • Tony Hancock – the comic genius who could not be saved from his demons June 26, 2018
  • Georgie from cotton mill via Fury to Fame December 3, 2017

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