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When Barbara Windsor died in December aged 83, precious little of her raucous life and times was spared examination. She wouldnt have minded.  In life, the irrepressible national treasure with the famous wiggle and throaty laugh was an open book, always ready with an eye-popping story normally involving the men in her life. So why would death be any different? The name of Bob Dunn was, however, notably absent from the extravagant obituaries. Perhaps that is not altogether surprising, since hi...

Did you go to the same Teesside school as someone famous? IF you went to school on Teesside, you could have sat next to one of these famous faces.  These days its hard to remember what you had for breakfast or did last week, never mind who you sat next to in school or partnered with science class. But you never know who might have gone on to be a trend-setting model, create musical masterpieces or represent Great Britain at the Olympics. Here are some of the famous faces that attended...

How to treat your pans the right way to remain non-stick Credit: LauriPatterson/GettyImages Scientists at the Czech Academy of Sciences have published a study in  Physics of Fluids (AIP Publishing) into why food sticks even in non-stick pans. It seems that convection is to blame, causing the oil to move from the hotter centre of the pan to the cooler edges. That smooth film of oil that you’ve carefully created by tipping the pan gets so thin in the middle that it breaks. You are left wit...

As a child, David Walliams’s favourite movie was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 musical fantasy about a flying car, its eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts and the brilliantly scary Child Catcher. But the thing that really captured David’s imagination was when Chitty took to the air.  ‘Those scenes were absolutely magical,’ recalls BGT judge David, ‘I really thought that car was flying.’ In reality, Chitty never got off the ground. Weighing a whopping two tons, the specially bui...

Freddie Mercurys final Christmas dinner (Image: SG) READ MORE Peter said: "It was Freddie’s tradition that any of his friends that had no family and were going to be alone, came to Garden Lodge. It was turkey on Christmas day then a baked ham on Boxing day. Tradition, tradition, tradition…" The house would always be beautifully decorated, mainly by ex-girlfriend Mary Austin with Freddie supervising. There were fairy lights and garlands hanging everywhere, a huge tree and tables laden with f...

One thing’s for sure: panto will never be the same again. Dave Murphy, chief executive at Cambridge Arts Theatre, said: “We thought long and hard before deciding to create this year’s show but realised that, this year more than ever before, we need take some control over our own destiny. “This is us putting our best foot forward at the end of the most challenging year in our history. “Amidst the COVID gloom I can promise you laughter, panto madness, feel-good songs, familiar faces and...

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Look back at his short night of the improbable soul, when he emerged to tell the world that after an unlikely “huge amount of heartache”, he would join the leavers. Of course he would: it was the only route to get the Tory party membership to select him as leader. To back remain would have cast him on the sidelines with Michael Heseltine, one of the many who “could have been a contender”. With Wayne Sleep choreography, with a pantomime macho display and songs of Brexit defiance to sooth...