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Gregory Sierra, who played major supporting roles on classic 1970s sitcoms including Sanford And Son and Barney Miller, has died at age 83. The New York City–born actor passed away on January 4, but a spokesman for his family only shared the news on Friday via Deadline. He died of cancer in Laguna Woods, California, … Read more
A week before Christmas, I got a message from my dad on WhatsApp (it took a pandemic, but he has finally got his head around using it) which started, as many of his messages do, with a ramble about the post not arriving and the garden fence falling down. And then, at the end, he … Read more
Purrfect harmony! Guitarist performs a ‘jazz’ duet with his ginger cat Barney playing piano Russian musician Marsel Gilmanov has shared footage of his piano-playing cat Barney the cat like to bash the keys of an electric keyboard at home in Moscow Mr Gilmanov joined his ginger pet by playing a guitar during the unusual duet … Read more
Purrfect harmony! Ginger cat Barney rocks the internet in piano duet with its guitar-playing owner Russian musician Marsel Gilmanov has shared footage of his piano-playing cat Barney the cat like to bash the keys of an electric keyboard at home in Moscow Mr Gilmanov joined his ginger pet by playing a guitar during the unusual … Read more
It’s been an emotional week. An 81-year-old bloke called William Shakespeare, from Warwickshire, became the second person in the world to be given a Covid-19 vaccine outside of a trial. A nice lady called Margaret was the first, but the lack of pun potential (‘Is this a needle which I see before me?’ or my … Read more
You can just picture the adverts: ‘Did you get Covid in hospital when it wasn’t your fault? Then YOU could be entitled to compensation. No win, no fee…’ Even before the pandemic, the NHS was staring down the barrel of £83 billion in negligence claims, with £4.3 billion in legal bills alone – figures that … Read more
‘The honeymoon period is over’: Strictly’s Caroline Quentin admits she had her first ‘barney’ with Johannes Radebe as the pair locked horns during rehearsals By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 12:17 GMT, 5 November 2020 | Updated: 12:32 GMT, 5 November 2020 Strictly Come Dancing’s Caroline Quentin has admitted she had her first ‘barney’ with … Read more
Queues. Don’t you hate them? I do, possibly because it feels as if I’ve spent much of this year in one. Queues for the supermarket, the bank and the post office – a record one-and-a-half hours the other day. Queues to get into a restaurant, to get your hair cut. Like everyone else, just about … Read more
Dare we dream? Amid the flurry of tweets in response to our articles over the past fortnight that predicted the Government would soon strike a deal for a lifesaving cystic fibrosis drug, this simple sentence stood out. It summed up the hopes – and fears – of thousands of British families blighted by this horrible … Read more
The perils of women cutting their menfolk’s hair have been apparent ever since Delilah sneakily gave Samson a short back and sides, as painfully recorded in the Old Testament. But unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. With barber shops closed, the pandemic has made hairdressers of millions of wives, no matter how cack-handed, nor how … Read more