Material saved from attic reveals a prolific, driven and organised writer, says head of special collections at Brotherton LibraryHe is already a byword for unremitting graft, with 21 novels, 13 historical studies and a couple of children’s books to his name, as well as separate careers in academia, broadcasting and politics.But now the world has [...]
Biographer reveals extraordinary life of Simon Hatley, the sailor who inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous poemThe man behind the Ancient Mariner, the unsettling character who holds a wedding guest spellbound with his “glittering eye” in Coleridge’s poem, has been unearthed by a writer from Shropshire.Robert Fowke has traced the sailor and privateer whose story inspired [...]
Slowly he established dominance and it was Chilcot and his colleagues who took on a hunted lookThis was the big one. Yet as we sat down to the climax of the Chilcot inquiry, in walked a ghost. Its muscles were taut, its eyes bloodshot, its tan implausible, its mouth unsmiling. The hand visibly shook when [...]
National Equality Panel’s analysis shows the richest 10% is more than 100 times better off than the poorest 10%In many ways the Renton and the Green families have plenty in common – these are two busy, noisy, happy households, each with three children. In both families, the two older children are already in their early [...]
A man who stabbed a woman to death while she was walking her dog because he was feeling “very angry” is jailed for life.
Shetland IslesIt’s another cold day and in the wind are occasional icy drops of rain. I’d planned a long-overdue walk around the headland, but decided instead on a car tour of the local lochs, which are usually bustling with life at this time of the year. But not today. There doesn’t seem to be anything [...]
A man who fatally stabbed his partner following a row at their home in Glasgow is jailed for at least 15 years and eight months.
• Waistband altitude a metaphor for life, declares Debenhams• Low-slung teen fad switches to armpit huggers by fifth decadeMiddle age, it oft is said, is when your age starts to show around your middle. And for men, it seems, the moment is marked by the inexorable rise in the position of their trouser waistband.A survey [...]
The results of the latest British Social Attitudes survey show that we’re more liberal about gay rights; yet more Conservative about our politics. Get the results here, and find out how Europe comparesIf you want to find out how Britain has changed, you can’t do much better than the latest British Social Attitudes survey.Each year [...]
Paul Hutchinson sentenced for raping and strangling 16-year-old Colette Aram, a case featured in first episode of CrimewatchA businessman was jailed for life years after he raped and strangled a teenage girl and boasted to murder squad officers that he would never be caught.Paul Hutchinson, 51, who is twice married with four children, was told [...]