Only the mountains have separated them in the 15 years since.”It’s going to be incredibly difficult. He hopes all these projects will also create an archive, a picture for Tom and Kate of what their mother was like.Alison Hargreaves moved in with Jim Ballard, 16 years her senior, when she was 18. We knew that [...]

Actors tend to be at their best when they are playing themselves.”Who, then, are the most prominent of Pires’s alter egos? Mozart, perhaps, whose piano sonatas she has recorded on two separate occasions (“the first at 30, the second 20 years later”)? Not so, apparently. I cannot explain how it is with other people, but [...]

By tomorrow morning you’ll see what we mean,” I am assured at the Electric Beach in London’s Kensington. High-pressure salons now promise instant gratification – dramatic results in just one visit, and a rich all-over tan within three.”One session is the equivalent to a full day’s tanning in the Med. One possible solution is solarium [...]

In another message to the magazine on Thursday, Scott Fischer, leading an expedition on nearby Broad Peak, said: “The mood is sombre. he asked me to say nothing until he could contact relatives.”However, it leaked out when mountaineers from another US expedition called an American Internet magazine, Outside Online, from K2 Base Camp. “Peter told [...]

The pitch is as dry as a ship’s biscuit, and Richard Stemp will have his chance to impress on it today.More reports, scoreboard, page 25COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP TOP FOURP W L D Bt Bl TotNorthants 13 10 2 1 33 47 240Middlesex 12 9 2 1 32 48 224Warwicks 12 9 2 1 31 44 219Lancs [...]

A duet by WPCs who inhabit a fantasy world of Juliet Bravo and The Gentle Touch is worthy of Victoria Wood. But while the funniest sketches call to mind established comedy divas, you can’t help wishing that such a talented pair would get more adventurous with their material. But neither can escape the other and [...]