Big Pumpkin: How a sinister cabal of pumpkin farmers is behind the rise of Halloween

Four years ago, for reasons best known to itself, the Yorkshire Post quoted me as an authority on the way Halloween has supplanted Bonfire ...

Little Letters - O

  Cut the following for Little Letter O from dark A - two 1-1/2" x 4-1/2" strips B - two 1-1/2" x 2-1/2" strips from lig...

Cream: Sunshine of Your Love

Jack Bruce , bass player and lead singer with Cream, died yesterday. This is one of Cream's most famous songs. Because it dates from the...

Two actors from Weavers Green

#500951519 / gettyimages.com Given the breathless excitement that accompanied my discovery of the forgotten Anglia TV soap opera Weavers Gr...

The evenings really were longer when I was young

The sort of people who think we should have British Summer Time all the year round are like those who think voting should be compulsory or t...

Torquay United mascot Gilbert the Gull 'called fans c**** and tried to start a fight'

The Independent wins Headline of the Day - and Gilbert the Gull wins Football Mascot of the Day.

Last train to Folkestone Harbour

This was the last public train to use the Folkstone Harbour Branch . It was drawn by BR Class 7P Britannia 70013 (Oliver Cromwell) on 14 Mar...

ACC successfully completes BlackBerry to Apple migration

by Lt. Col. Joseph Terrones ACC Communications Directorate 10/24/2014 -  Langley AFB, Va.  -- Earlier this year AFSPC announced an Air For...

Six of the Best 470

Every time David Cameron could show leadership he doesn't, says So Sam said... . University tuition fees must be high on the agenda befo...