How to do Transitional Pieces Swapping from a winter to spring wardrobe can be a very daunting experience. Most of us ladies are tired of heavy coats and woolly scarves by this time of the year so we listen to the weather forecasts hoping for good news but the British climate as we all know [...]
The second series of "Broadchurch" saw Meera Syal join the cast. Today, she reflects on her spell as a judge. Meera Syal has books, scripts, TV shows and plays under her belt, but the all-round creative still found time to take on the part of Judge Sonia Sharma in the second, court-centric, series of [...]
Indomitable French chef Raymond Blanc is firmly fixed in the British culinary landscape. Now, the self taught chef is bringing British horticultural institution Kew Gardens to the greater public. Together with Kate Humble, he's behind the BBC's _Kew on a Plate_, transforming what was once Queen Victoria's royal kitchen garden into a sumptuous fruit and [...]
RENOWNED FOR HIS LARGELY IMPROVISED, SURREALIST BRAND OF STAND-UP COMEDY, AND WITH TOURS NAMED 'RANDOMIST', 'MINDBLENDER' AND 'FIZZY LOGIC' YOU CAN EXPECT A LITTLE SPONTANEITY FROM Ross Noble. The comedian has taken his stream-of-consciousness humour to a new dimension, heading his TV show, _Freewheeling,_ through a second season. A favourite at Edinburgh fringe and a [...]
Fortune favours the brave and it seems they don't come much tougher than fiery millionaire Michelle Mone, whose gloves are definitely off in her revealing new tell-all book Creating a ?50million empire doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen without a little graft and most millionaires certainly won't tell you how they did it. Fortunately 43-year-old [...]
Nick Leeson talks about why the 20th anniversary of the infamous collapse of Barings Bank, a catastrophe he caused through rogue trading, won't be sending him into despair - even if it does coincide with his birthday For the vast majority of people, a birthday is something to be celebrated. For Nick Leeson, it brings [...]
MATCH OF THE DAY PRESENTER GARY LINEKER IS ONE OF ENGLAND'S GREATEST EVER FOOTBALLERS, NOT TO MENTION AN ACCOMPLISHED BROADCASTER. AND YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED HIM IN A FEW ADVERTS FOR CRISPS OVER THE YEARS. IN AN EXCLUSIVE CHAT HE TALKS ABOUT BALANCING THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF BEING FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH. Picture the scene: [...]
MARCH 2015 March may well turn out to be a turbulent and volatile month. The heavens are in battle mode starting with Mars, the warrior planet, in excitable and impulsive Aries. Mars aligns with unpredictable Uranus on the 11th and the final Pluto/ Uranus stand-off completes on the 17th. These aspects stir up passions and [...]
UK RELEASE MARCH 16TH, 2015 FEATURING SONGS FROM VAN’S CATALOG REINTERPRETED BY VAN MORRISON WHO PERSONALLY SELECTED DUET PARTNERS INCLUDING MICHAEL BUBLÉ, STEVE WINWOOD, BOBBY WOMACK, MARK KNOPFLER, TAJ MAHAL, MAVIS STAPLES, NATALIE COLE, GEORGE BENSON, GREGORY PORTER, CLARE TEAL, PJ PROBY, JOSS STONE, GEORGIE FAME, MICK HUCKNALL, CHRIS FARLOWE, AND HIS DAUGHTER SHANA MORRISONAvailable from: iTunes, Amazon, Spotify [...]
It’s hard to think of any other singer of her generation, in fact of any generation, who would have the talent to carry this off. The amazing Rebecca Ferguson, whose voice has been compared to Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and Dusty Springfield, has reached for the stars with her third album ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ [...]