VIEW GALLERY Wolf Hall is the latest TV series to pique viewers’ interest, as they watch wily Thomas Cromwell scrabble to a position of power as advisor to King Henry VIII. While the adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker award-winning novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bringing Up The Bodies, is unlikely to revive a trend for wearing bonnets and breeches or lighting homes by candlelight, it is winning admirers for its atmospheric settings. Thick walled and heavily beamed, these historic Read more [...]

I was building shelves in my garage when a neighbour girl, one of my four-year-old daughter's friends, approached me and said, "I just saw in your house. It's pretty dirty. Norah's mummy needs to clean more." "Some people find comments like that rude," I said. The little girl looked at me with a snarky smile and said, "yup!" The thing that really sucks about what five-year-olds say is I knew she was being 100% honest. And indeed, our house was a mess. At the time, I could probably Read more [...]

Tom Benson, 87, owns the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans but has cut his daughter and grandchildren out of their future Instead his third wife Gayle, 67, is in control - prompting his original family to sue claiming she has turned him against them Benson wrote letter to his family saying they had become offensive since his marriage to Gayle, who was also marrying for the third time His granddaughter Rita, 38, was vice-chairman of the Saints until she was cut out of the business  Daily Mail Read more [...]