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devansh patel

Bollywood: Taboo to wear a bikini

DON’T judge Shazahn Padamsee by her looks alone.Read

Bollywood: Rom-com star is a gangster hit

THEY say rom-com specialists should steer well clear of any action genres. Their attempts to cross over can be hazardous. Enter Tusshar Kapoor and the critics shut up!Read

Ranson's Rants and Raves

Cathy Ranson and son Alex

High School Musical: I reckon I know most of the lyrics by heart!

HAVE you been to the amazing wooden adventure playground over at Black Park? It’s a huge natural play area in the woods with loads of great equipment, and is one of our favourite places to go for a walk around the lake, a coffee or ice-cream (depending what the weather is doing) and a play in the playground.Read

Family street dance draws a powerful veto from my 10 year old

SO, THAT'S another school holiday over in the blink of an eye. It’s one step closer to high school in September in our house, as each end of term and half-term milestone passes this year.Read

Barbara Fisher's B-Mail

Barbara Fisher

Titanic still causing an impression, post-Costa

ONE hundred years ago the Titanic set off for New York. As a band played, excited passengers waved from the decks. The self-styled ‘most luxurious liner in the world’ was never to return to Southampton.Read

My nightmare brought to life at Maori show

I ALWAYS marvel at people who volunteer to go up on stage. As a child, I shrivelled to a shadow when the audience was scanned for likely suspects, but luckily there were always plenty of takers.Read

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Bus angel proves it's not all gloom and doom

SO OFTEN today, we read in our newspapers of unsociable behaviour, theft and acts of unkindness, so I write this letter to acknowledge that all is not always gloom and doom.Read

To convenient to call this a London to Birmingham line

I THINK I should start by giving a true description of the first phase of HS2, which will be a new line from London to the West Midlands with a connection to the West Coast Main Line (WCML) near Lichfield and a branch line to Birmingham city centre.Read

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