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If you have a craving for feelings of awe and wonder, you are not alone. When the huge American advertising agency, Wunderman Thomson surveyed 3,000 adults in the UK, USA and China, they found 75% said they ‘just want to feel something, to feel alive’. So, they wrote a report for the benefit of their commercial clients,...

100 years ago this month, on 8th November 1923, Christian Barnard, the South African cardiac surgeon, was born. He made history when he carried out the first successful human heart transplant in 1967. Barnard qualified in medicine at the University of Cape Town in 1946. After practising for several years in Cape Town, he moved...

King Charles was born 75 years ago this month, on 14th November 1948, at Buckingham Palace in London. He was the longest-serving monarch-in-waiting in British history and did not ascend the throne until he was 73, following the death of his mother in September 2022. Charles was crowned in the first coronation in seven decades,...

75 years ago this month, on 4th November 1948, an American-born British poet and playwright, T S Eliot, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His influence on modern poetry was so profound that he has been hailed as one of the major poets of the 20th century. T S Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher,...

It was 60 years ago this month, on 22nd November, that the famous writer C S Lewis died.  This Irish-born British academic, novelist and literary critic is best known for his novels on The Chronicles of Narnia, and his books on Christian apologetics. Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast November 1898. He arrived in...

The soaring number of pothole-related breakdowns has been blamed on Britain’s wet summer. There are increasing calls for councils to fix the roads before winter. This past July was the UK’s sixth wettest on record, according to Met Office figures. The AA says that this would have made potholes even harder to spot, in time...

Have you ever been at home, and suddenly smelled something burning in the house?  Most of us react to it immediately – fires spread quickly! Well, now the National Trust has installed ‘electronic noses’ on a Yorkshire Moor to ‘sniff’ out wildfires. The electronic sensors will detect changes in the air at the very start...

All in the month of October Remembering the Beatles A Bear called Paddington Remembering the Marshall Plan strong>The man who created those lions in Trafalgar Square Halloween – some statistics SAD people need our help and understanding ** Editor:  We continue our column that looks at memorable dates in the month (this time, October) down...

It was: 150 years ago, on 1st Oct 1873 that Edwin Landseer, artist and sculptor, died. Known for his animal paintings, and for his famous lion sculptures at the base of Nelson’s Column in London. 100 years ago, on 10th Oct 1923 that Nicholas Parsons, radio and TV game show host and actor was born. ...

Sixty years ago, on 15th October 1963, the term ‘Beatlemania’ first appeared in the Daily Mirror newspaper in the UK. It described the intense, frenzied reaction of fans of the Beatles and their music. The group – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr – had been attracting wild adulation in the north...

It was 65 years ago, on 14th October 1958, that Michael Bond’s children’s book, A Bear Called Paddington, was published. It marked the debut of the lovable Paddington Bear, who is now a household name after appearing in two irresistible films. Paddington starred in more than 20 books written by Bond, who died aged 91...

Seventy years ago, on 30th October 1953, former US Secretary of State George Marshall was awarded the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize for engineering the Marshall Plan – a massive economic aid programme for Europe in the aftermath of World War Two. Marshall was widely admired at the highest levels, although he had not always been...