WHAT a difference a day makes. On Tuesday I was basking in sunshine sipping an americano outside a Leeds city centre coffee shop as lawyers and accountants waved cheery greetings. To be fair, most of them were in insolvency which perhaps explains their sunny dispositions. The city appeared to have regained a little of its […]
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I’M on a business development drive. I thought about leafleting firms on industrial estates. I considered putting cards with photos of me in a sexy pose in phone boxes. And if you doubt I can strike a sexy pose, then you are wrong. I used to have a Filipino yoga teacher who taught me quite
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FAREWELL then Dame Diana Rigg, whose death, aged 82, was announced yesterday. Her varied work as an actress over more than 65 years was known by many generations. What I didn’t know until yesterday was that she was born in Yorkshire – in Doncaster – and educated at Fulneck Girls School in a Moravian settlement
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YOO HOO! I’m back! What do you mean? You could at least pretend you missed me. Please yourselves. I hope you’ve had an enjoyable and relaxed summer and I find you healthy and happy. Given the limitations that still prevent life returning to anywhere near normal, all of us have probably not done many of
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