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Is Selina worth a pretty penny?

JUST when you thought Selina Scott was yesterday's news, up she pops making it again, suing Channel 5 for age-ism.Read

Grey invaders we can't resist

IT SEEMS we’re utterly split on grey squirrels. You either love them or hate them. No in-betweens. No, as you might say, grey areas.Read

I'm in no rush to defend Salman

THERE'S no way he can help it but if you asked me to draw a picture of a typical dirty old man, he would bear a disconcerting resemblance to Sir Salman Rushdie.Read

Camping: It's a right carry-on

SOME people like tents. I don't. Let me repeat that. I am not a tent person.Read

Don't play politics with games

THE whole country will be united in supporting us this weekend and, no, not Blues in the Championship, I mean our competitors in the Olympic Games.Read

The secret of hiding in full view

THE canoe couple John and Anne Darwin are well set in headlines as liars, cheats and fraudsters. But as they were swept away to a six-year jail sentence, I couldn't help but feel a tingle of amazement for their audacity.Read

It's high time we all dried out

OUR alcohol laws are rubbish. The evidence says we aren't responsible enough to drink at all, never mind 24/7.Read

Fat chance for weight loss plan

WHO put the pork into Yorkshire? Who ate all the wedges in West Riding? Who tilted Sheffield towards the north-east?Read

Well-timed lecture from Gordon

IT IS one of the gross inequalities of modern life that in the western world we can munch our way to obesity while a ten-hour flight away people die of starvation.Read

A load of bull from pen-pushers

TRUE story. Someone I know knows a printing factory owner who loves, I'm told, to think of himself as a country sort of gentleman.Read

Porridge that's hard to stomach

THE other day I was on the end of an e-mail approving the record of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a folk hero in the view of some Americans and a barbarian in others.Read

It's official - big boys shouldn't cry

WHEN the gallant 600 rode into the valley of the shadow of death, they didn't ask reason why. Not at all.Read

So sad to see Hillary's campaign fail

SHE'S my kind of woman is Hillary. Well, most of her, anyway.Read

Spend it all while you can!

IT HAS been the first scene in many a murder mystery: family solicitor opens father's last will and testament in front of his children and other interested parties.Read

Sugar and spice and all things nasty

GIRLS will be boys out there on the streets of our cities.Read

Costs are the real kitchen nightmare

CRITICS lined up to stuff Gordon Ramsay with his own words after the television chef had demanded laws to prevent restaurants like his own using out-of-season fruit and veg.Read

Where is the respect for the elderly

IT IS quite possible that just around the corner from you an old person is being abused, or worse.Read

A hard life - for staff, not inmates

LIFE in some prisons is so cushy, inmates are ignoring chances to escape. Or so says a prison officers' leader.Read

Puppy love beats good intentions

BAD news for our King Charles Cavalier spaniel Buddy: he isn't going to be allowed to sleep on my daughter's bed any longer.Read

Tragic victims of our drug culture

THE deaths of TV presenter Mark Speight and his fiancee Natasha Collins are a Romeo and Juliet tragedy for the 21st century.Read