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BEACHCOMBER: 101 years old and still troubled by computers…

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 10:51:00 +0100

ONCE upon a time there lived a beautiful but vain queen who had the very latest beautiful computer with the very latest beautiful software in which she placed absolute trust and she installed its main monitor in pride of place on her favourite wall in her beautiful palace.

New mums deserve understanding, kindness and time, says CAROLE ANN RICE

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:55:00 +0100

SIR DAVID Attenborough would find humankind on the list of endangered species if women developed precognition about pregnancy and motherhood. There are books, manuals, stand-up comedy routines, sit-coms and yummy mummies; but parenthood remains an alien landscape until you set foot on it yourself.

Charging for NHS parking is a disgraceful operation - EXPRESS COMMENT

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:06:00 +0100

THERE is something extremely distasteful about using the occasion of other people’s suffering to make a quick buck. For how else can we describe the hospitals that are raking in a fortune for charging patients an average of £2 an hour?

Selling Wembley would be a terrible national own goal, says LEO MCKINSTRY

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 07:11:00 +0100

IRISH writer Oscar Wilde described cynics as men "who know the price of everything and the value of nothing". That epigram is a perfect description for the bosses of the English Football Association as they attempt to flog off their national stadium at Wembley.

Hospital car parking charges are stealth tax on the NHS and should be stopped

Sun, 29 Apr 2018 22:10:00 +0100

HOSPITAL car parking charges are a stealth tax on the NHS and the bane of people’s lives. Despite the Government making it clear in 2014 that free parking or concessions should be available, a postcode lottery on car parking charges still exists.

Fingerprint breakthrough could help STOP the ivory trade, says STUART WINTER

Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:55:00 +0100

ELEPHANT blood has been staining the hands of those bewitched by the allure of ill-gotten ivory since Classical times. Ancient civilisations exterminated these mighty creatures across the arid steppes of North Africa and the Middle East enlisting them as war weapons or turning their pillaged tusks into treasure.

I don't want choice, I want to sit down says CAMILLA TOMINEY

Sun, 29 Apr 2018 15:40:00 +0100

IT has suddenly dawned on me why I have fallen head over heels in love with Aldi. It isn’t the 55p baby wipes.

A kind stranger restored my faith in humanity, says MARTIN TOWNSEND

Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:01:00 +0100

ONE MORNING last week as I was walking to work I saw an elderly gentleman huffing and puffing up the street with a small piece of coloured wool in his hands, in pursuit of a mother whose baby had lost a sock.

If you want to get to the very top you have got to work twice as hard, says SHAUN WALLACE

Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:28:00 +0100

I AM OFTEN asked what makes a great quizzer and, like a great quiz, there's no easy answer. But there are a few things you can do to keep ahead of the game. I make sure I'm learning about culture and history wherever I might be in the world. There's always something you can add to your knowledge.

Outcry is all much Apu about nothing, says MARK PIGGOTT

Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:57:00 +0100

LIBERAL luvvies reacted with outrage when a journalist had the temerity to suggest that casting black actor Leo Wringer as a 17th-century English squire was misjudged. "Was Mr Wringer cast because he is black?" he wrote. "If so the RSC's clunking approach to politically correct casting has again weakened its stage product."