Review: The Carnelian Tree – when Oxford meets Iraq
It’s 2003 and Glasgow schoolteacher Judith Frazer is taking a sabbatical to study among Oxford’s gleaming spires and is sharing a house with a motley crew of people including a wealthy American, a spy, More...
Rockin’ around the Christmas tree – A look back on the history of UK’s festive pop charts
It’s December 1952. London is coping with the effects of the “Great Smog”‘, an off-the-scale pea-souper caused by a mixture of coal smoke from domestic fires and power stations, freezing More...
Johnny Depp: Pirates of the Caribbean star’s family tree relation to Queen Elizabeth II
JOHNNY DEPP, the Jack Sparrow star of Pirates of the Caribbean, likely has a family tree relation to the late Queen Elizabeth II according to a genealogist. Daily Express :: Films Feed More...
France warning: Furious wild boar chases tourists up tree and earns them fine of £230
A PAIR of tourists who had to hide up a tree to escape a furious wild boar have been fined over £200. The incident happened in Le Verdon in southeast France. Daily Express :: Travel Feed More...
Brian May: ‘I’m always going through hard times’ How Another World tree helped him survive
BRIAN MAY’s Another World album cover sees the Queen legend posing next to a uniquely shaped tree in the Canary Islands. Now as the guitarist gears up to re-release his 1998 record, he’s opened up in More...
Enid Blyton Society blasts woke The Magic Faraway Tree rewrite: ‘Leave our classics alone’
ENID BLYTON’S The Magic Faraway Tree is no stranger to changes for political correctness, with the ‘offensive’ children’s names being changed, and now the story is undergoing another ‘woke’ More...
Rich Holiday Poor Holiday slammed after ‘poor’ family spend ‘luxury’ break in tree house
RICH HOLIDAY POOR HOLIDAY airs on Channel 5 on Sundays and has proved popular with viewers as they watch wealthy families swap holidays with poorer ones to see how the other half live. However, the latest episode More...
‘Summer holidays – you’re barking up the wrong tree’: Dr Hilary quashes 2021 holiday hopes
HOLIDAYS may be on hold right throughout the summer of 2021, according to Dr Hilary. The expert shared his predictions for the future and warned Britons planning getaways need to be “realistic”. Daily More...
Book review: The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge Hot Key Books
FOR a generation so obsessed with the self never in history have teenage feelings of self-worth and self confidence been quite so challenged. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Family Tree, a short story by Sarah Franklin
Kit didn’t think he could go on without his twin brother… until Nan showed him the way… Daily Express :: Books Feed More...