Monty revisits one of his classic books, Gardening at Longmeadow, in an occasional series. One of my favourite joys of this midsummer season is the range of scents, and my favourite of all is honeysuckle. Its fragrance saturates these sunken Herefordshire lanes, the warm pools of air soaking up the scent like blotting paper till … Read more
Staged Wednesday, BBC1 Rating: Sitting In Limbo Monday, BBC1 Rating: Two excellent shows this week: one that is pure joy, and one that will drive you to such anger you may well wish to push every slavery statue there ever was into Bristol dock. (Or any dock.) Between the two of them it means, alas, … Read more
Watership Crown! Camilla is left in tears by boy’s winning story in 500 Words competition about a toy rabbit that went to heaven The Duchess of Cornwall is an honorary judge for the 500 Words competition Camilla read out a message from the Wendy House on the Birkhall Estate She was moved to tears by … Read more
Designer and cook Athena Calderone has transformed her run-down townhouse into the epitome of downtown chic. These are her renovation golden rules… 1. Live with what you really love: When Athena bought her townhouse, a late 1800s brownstone in Brooklyn, New York, she knew it needed a lot of love. But renovating it actually took … Read more
Buying a Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin’s record label Warner Music eyes stock market flotation Warner Music recently posted its highest quarterly revenue for sixteen years Muse, Coldplay and Green Day are among many rock bands signed to Warner Billionaire owner Len Blavatnik donated £200million to Harvard Medical School By Harry Wise For This Is … Read more
7th Heaven actor Lorenzo Brino killed in car crash at 21 By Kelby Vera For Dailymail.com Published: 14:45 GMT, 15 March 2020 | Updated: 14:45 GMT, 15 March 2020 7th Heaven actor Lorenzo Brino has died at age 21. Brino was killed last Monday around 3AM in San Bernadino County, California when he lost control … Read more
A federal appeals court has restored a jury verdict that found Led Zeppelin did not steal ‘Stairway to Heaven’ from an obscure song written four years earlier. In a 9-2 decision, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said on Monday that lead singer Robert Plant’s and guitarist Jimmy Page’s 1971 rock anthem … Read more
Standing at the top of a red run so steep we couldn’t see over the edge, I looked at my eight-year-old son and said ‘What do you reckon?’ My husband and older son had already disappeared over the edge in a spray of powder and now it was just the two of us under a … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Highland views from Heaven, but a fishy fry-up from Hell… By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:26 GMT, 27 February 2020 | Updated: 01:28 GMT, 27 February 2020 Grand Tours Of Scottish Lochs Rating: Very Hard Questions Rating: Now there’s a novelty: a travelogue with no railways, … Read more