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Last modified on Fri 30 Apr 2021 06.58 EDT Once a year, I went to see the Queen with my friend Helen Smeed. Helen, who has died aged 77 from a heart attack, was a long-time parliamentary researcher and personal assistant in the House of Lords. We would wait across the street from the Sovereign’s Entrance during the state opening of parliament and watch the resplendent horse-drawn carriages arrive. Afterwards, during lunch in the Lords’ canteen, Helen would always show her appreciation to the people who made parliament work, from cooks to policemen. She believed in public service. Helen an...

Many groups visit the Weekender twice a year, year after year - Credit: Tracey Stephenson A group of festival-goers who lost a court battle with an events organiser after they refused to refund their deposits have said they "treated loyal customers with contempt”. Caister Soul Weekender in Great Yarmouth, run by Soul Music Enterprises (SME) and held at Parkdean’s Vauxhall Holiday Park for the last 26 years, was due to take place on May 2, 2020.  But despite the pandemic forcing its cancellation, organisers held on to attendees’ deposits - prompting fury from customers expecting full r...

Sunday 1 January 9st 3 (but post-Christmas), alcohol units 14 (but effectively covers 2 days as 4 hours of party was on New Year's Day), calories 5,424. 11.45pm Ugh. First day of New Year has been day of horror. Having skulked at home all day, hoping hangover would clear, I eventually gave up and set off for the Turkey Curry Buffet far too late.  When I got to the Alconburys' and rang their entire-tune-of-town-hall- clock-style doorbell I was still in a strange world of my own — nauseous, vile-headed, acidic. 'Bridget! Happy New Year! Just about to start without you.' In our first extract ...

As the French comedy airs its fourth season on Netflix, there's no doubting its ritzy, star-studded appeal

By Dan Atkinson December 11, 2020 14:54 GMT On hearing that plans are advancing for a new theatre in London's West End, some may be tempted to echo the fictional civil servant Humphrey Appleby and declare it a "courageous move". In this context, of course, "courageous" means "foolhardy". Co-Founders of Trafalgar Entertainment, Dame Rosemary Squire and Sir Howard Panter. Trafalgar Entertainment Sir Howard Panter, who, with his wife and bus...