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When Barbara Windsor died in December aged 83, precious little of her raucous life and times was spared examination. She wouldn't 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 his 20-year relationship with Barbara was a closely guarded secret. At the time, it suited him fine b...

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 it's 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 schools on Teesside: Bob Mortimer - Acklam High School, Middlesbrough 

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 with a ring doughnut of oil, and the dry patch in the middle is where that food sticks. 

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 built vehicle was used for road scenes while a replica was employed for aerial shots at Pinewood Studio...

Freddie Mercury's 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 food. Freddie's driver and friend Gordon Dalziel remembers Christmas crackers from Tiffany stuffed w...