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Philip and Penny... the rumours return, says ADAM HELLIKER

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 17:01:00 +0100

JUST AS the Royal Family is enjoying a boost in its popularity after Prince Harry’s wedding, the Queen may be forgiven for sighing with exasperation at the prospect of a renewed wave of speculation about the extra-marital wanderings allegedly made by Prince Philip during his prime.

Inside Politics: Tory wets face up to Brexiteers

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:38:00 +0100

AT WESTMINSTER the wets are on the rise again. Conservative Party moderates, one mocked as a bunch of drips by Margaret Thatcher and her allies, have started getting organised.

Top of the crops in summer- ALAN TITCHMARSH

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 11:46:00 +0100

IF YOU were to work out which greenhouse food crops would deliver the best return in financial terms this summer it would be peppers, chillies, aubergines and cucumbers. Not only are they pricey in the shops but being warmth-lovers they don’t grow well outdoors in this country.

Yes, a snap decision but the right one

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 18:17:00 +0100

I DON'T as a rule make snap decisions. They can leave you a hostage to fortune. So when the red light faded and died in ITV's Good Morning Britain studios at the close of Tuesday's programme, where I'd been filling in for regular host Piers Morgan, I was assailed by self-doubt.

America gets us all wrong, says JENNIFER SELWAY

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:57:00 +0100

MY OLD friend John - no longer with us sadly - went to live in New York in the 1950s when he was a young man. He was gay so maybe there was a freedom there that he wouldn't have found in his home town of Salford.

Nothing new in so-called exposé of British heroes, says OLIVER FINNEY

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:28:00 +0100

JOURNALIST Afua Hirsch's Channel 4 documentary The Battle For Britain's Heroes this week made the plea that we need to discuss those sides of our history we have previously tried to conceal.

Why are we persecuting people who protect us? - EXPRESS COMMENT

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 16:08:00 +0100

WHAT sort of a country persecutes its heroes while letting terrorists walk free? Extraordinarily it seems to be this one. The decision to go after members of the Armed Forces who served in Northern Ireland decades ago is utterly inexplicable.

Ms Greer spits toxic, nonsensical bile: I take it rather personally says LYSETTE ANTHONY

Sat, 02 Jun 2018 00:01:00 +0100

AT THE risk of sounding like a scratched ABBA song - here we go again. Germaine Greer hijacking yet another public event to shriek and demand a relevance she long ago forfeited. It is worth repeating what she had to say if only to remind ourselves of just how shocking it was.

Dragonflies are fairly wild right now and watching them is simple, says JOHN INGHAM

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:45:00 +0100

SITTING by my small pond the other day and basking in that great rarity- bank holiday sunshine - I had a brush with Beauty and The Beast. Flitting here and there were tiny flying jewels, flashes of blue and red on gossamer wings.

How to mend the House of Lords – FREDRICK FORSYTH

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:24:00 +0100

Rather as I suggested the 15 motions passed by the house of Lords refusing to advance our Brexit and deliberately snub- bing the elected house of Commons may have signed their lordships’ own death warrant. Polls now show the public anger at a level where two thirds of the people who actually pay for life on the red benches believe the peers are so out of touch that reform should not be delayed any longer, and there is a template staring us in the face.