Lyons Corner House News Today

From Tom’s pert-bottomed hunks to Cook’s curvacious ladies, both artists wanted to give pleasure

As Wimpy turns 70, we look back at some of the most famous faces who love the chain - including Lulu, Paddy McGuinness, Stacey Solomon and TOWIE sisters Billie and Sam Faiers - with even Brad Pitt popping into the the Billericay branch while filming World War Z

Douglas Thompson’s wickedly entertaining biography of April Ashley recounts the life of a sailor reborn as a dancer, model and activist

The singer on talent contests in Blackpool, skiing for the first time in her fifties, partying with John Lennon and meeting Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder in a lift

The 186-mile A470 might be a bit of a patchwork route but it perfectly showcases the spine of Wales’s beauty

Tony Wade MBE, Windrush Generation member, businessman, author and community philanthropist has died at the age of 90 at his home in Jamaica

The play is the best-known work by author J.B. Priestley. <em>An Inspector Calls</em> (written and first performed in 1945) has a certain enduring significance.

For the 44 Guyanese on board, the muddy brown water may have been a consoling memory of home. For the much larger cohort of Jamaicans, numbering more than 500 as the Empire Windrush arrived on June 22, 1948, the sight of Tilbury Docks was likely to be a startling realisation that a new life, markedly different to the old, awaited. The vibrant seascape of the Caribbean must have felt a long way away.

For the 44 Guyanese on board, the muddy brown water may have been a consoling memory of home. For the much larger cohort of Jamaicans, numbering more than 500 as the Empire Windrush arrived on June 22, 1948, the sight of Tilbury Docks was likely to be a startling realisation that a new life, markedly different to the old, awaited. The vibrant seascape of the Caribbean must have felt a long way away.

Choreographer whose dance troupes were a mainstay of light entertainment TV programmes in the 1960s and 70s