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It’s horribly ironic that I wrote to Caroline: ‘It’s just TV and nobody died’

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Woke in Los Angeles to the shocking news that Caroline Flack has taken her own life at just 40 years old. After decades working in the news business, I don’t shock easily but this left me, like everyone who knew her, absolutely reeling. Caroline was a mate of mine. We weren’t close … Read more

Cole Porter wrote songs of such brilliance that we’re still humming them 90 years on

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BOOK OF THE WEEK THE LETTERS OF COLE PORTER Edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh (Yale £25, 672 pp)  Cole Porter was the most debonair of composers and lyricists, emblematic, I always felt, of a perfect dry martini, served straight-up with a twist of lemon peel. He was responsible for such classics as Miss … Read more

Prison teacher wrote to inmate in her children’s names saying ‘thank you for making mummy happy’

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The husband of a prison teacher exposed her affair with an inmate after finding 107 messages between the pair on a secret mobile phone SIM card, a court heard today. Melissa Frost, 36, exchanged letters, phone calls and text messages with the prisoner while having a relationship with him at Wayland Prison near Thetford, Norfolk. … Read more