April 2018

David Parkin freezes in London, blows up a balloon in Leeds and runs out of words

A TRIP to London last weekend underlined the gulf that now exists between certain parts of the capital and the rest of the country. Spend some time walking the streets of Knightsbridge, Mayfair or Kensington and you see plenty of examples of what now makes modern London. From Kazakh billionaires sipping Coca-cola at a pavement […]

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David Parkin on losing Len, veterans in Vegas and Yorkshire on TV

WARM, intelligent, generous, thoughtful and honest, Len Tingle had these and many more qualities. A top class journalist and broadcaster, Len died this week after a year long fight with stomach cancer. Len, 63, who lived in Huddersfield but was brought up in Cudworth near Barnsley, was a familiar face on Look North and Sunday

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David Parkin on Carol Vorderman, the bard of Bardsey and a swinging sensation

IF you asked most people 30 years ago to explain what “equity release” was, they almost certainly couldn’t. In fact the phrase probably hadn’t even been invented then. But a bit like social media it is a product of the way we live today and there can’t be many people over 50 who don’t now

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