One-eyed parakeet may be the oldest bird in Britain
Britain’s ‘oldest’ parakeet is still going strong at a whopping 34 years old – despite only having one eye and being too frail to FLY. One-eyed Sneaky Beaky is also not strong ...
LIFESTYLE
Love me or kill me. “I write the truth,” said Sarah Kane, “and it kills me.”
Robert Tanitch reviews Cleansed at National Theatre/Dorfman “There is an enormous amount of depression in Cleansed because I felt an enormous depression when writing it,” said Sarah Kane in 1998, shor ...
Blast from the past
A woman who desperately seeks a wartime husband lives her entire life in a world frozen in 1939 – and she only ever uses an outside toilet. Joanna Francis doesn’t own a television or compu ...
Honeymoon ‘old up
An OAP couple with a combined age of 172 have tied the knot – but can’t go on honeymoon because of hospital appointments. Thomas Mensforth, 85, and Emily Stephenson, 87, first met half a c ...