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Fabulous fifties
It was the glamour age of Hollywood and now the fifties has been voted as the decade when women dressed most stylishly, says a new poll. RoxyPalace.com , asked 1,000 men which decade in the last 60 years did women appear the most attractive? Polling...
http://www.lady.co.uk/style/fashion/1865-fabulous-fifties
Essex accents are least attractive
The Essex accent, made famous by the stars of The Only Way Is Essex and Denise Van Outen, has been voted the least attractive in a new poll. The survey, conducted by online casino RoxyPalace.com , asked 1000 people to name their favourite British Isles...
http://www.lady.co.uk/style/etiquette/1719-essex-accents-are-least-attractive
CAT OR DOG: who’s the fur-rest of them all?
VG LEE IT’S A MIAOW FROM ME… Let me introduce you to my own Tommy Thomson. He’s a prince among the neighbourhood felines – as dependable and loyal as any Labrador, but he purrs like a tractor and smells of warm sunshine. Dogs pant, bark, retrieve...
http://www.lady.co.uk/people/features/464-cat-or-dog-who-s-the-fur-rest-of-them-all
Vote VG Lee!
Anyone who promotes the virtues of an elasticated waistband surely deserves a seat in high office; or at least a small perch on the local council. Sadly, the world of politics is a much lesscolourful place. Next week sees the biennial re-shuffle for...
http://www.lady.co.uk/life/home/2219-local-politics
Scandal, suffragettes & the biggest-ever betting coup
The 1913 Epsom Derby changed history in more ways than one. It is perhaps best known for the death of the suffragette Emily Davison, a vociferous and outspoken feminist who met her grisly end four days after the Derby, in Epsom Cottage Hospital, having...
http://www.lady.co.uk/people/features/2317-scandal-su-ffragettes-the-biggest-ever-betting-coup
Enduring beauty
There’s something about sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) that gladdens the heart, even in the soggiest of English summers. It’s partly the way they grow, with visible energy, their tendrils propelling them towards the light, flaunting their flowers to...
http://www.lady.co.uk/life/gardening/669-enduring-beauty
National anthems…
He's sold over 150 million records worldwide in a career that has spanned some 45 years. He has four Grammy nominations to his name, a Golden Globe for Entertainer Of The Year, 63 gold- and 24 platinum-selling records. And now, at a stately 76,...
http://www.lady.co.uk/people/features/368-national-anthems
Hello Mr Selfridge
ITV’s brand new drama Mr Selfridge is set in 1909 and since we first saw the trailer we've been positively salivating over the promise of shopping, seduction & serious style back on our screens. And with that finish to the Christmas special of Downton...
http://www.lady.co.uk/culture/television-film-radio/1593-hello-mr-selfridge
The Daily: June 12
World's Oldest Love Birds Two owls with a combined age of 372 years old have hatched a chick. In human years the Tawny Frogmouths, Gerben and Fleur, are 198 and 178 years old respectively. Gerben, thought to be the oldest Tawny Frogmouth in the world,...
http://www.lady.co.uk/magazine/2490-the-daily-june-12-2013
The Americans
We’ve discussed before how unsettling it is when a period drama is set during your lifetime. The discombobulation is magnified immeasurably if it’s set in a year when you were allowed to vote. So I was almost set to rule The Americans (ITV, Saturday at...
http://www.lady.co.uk/culture/television-film-radio/2402-the-americans
Farewell to the Iron Lady
Being powerful, Margaret Thatcher once said, is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Despite her modest origins as the daughter of a Lincolnshire grocer, power came naturally to Thatcher – and others knew it. In fact, as...
http://www.lady.co.uk/people/profiles/2148-farewell-to-the-iron-lady
The Daily: April 2
Darling Dahl Roald Dhal has been named best loved children's author of all time by parents and children's in a survey carried out at the International Children's Book Day. Many of Dahl's works remain household classics half a decade after their...
http://www.lady.co.uk/magazine/2087-the-daily-april-2
MY WEEK AS A 1913 WIFE
My husband and I have been married for three years. Pretty happily married, too. We live in a (very tiny) pink cottage in rural Essex, with a tortoise named Bob (who resides in a converted kitchen cupboard) and we rub along in a fairly contented...
http://www.lady.co.uk/style/etiquette/2025-my-week-as-a-1913-wife
The Daily: March 6
Could It Be A Daughter For The Royals? During a visit to Grimsby yesterday, the Duchess of Cambridge almost let it slip that she is expecting a baby girl. While meeting the crowds, a lady called Diana Burton leant over to give her a teddy bear to which...
http://www.lady.co.uk/magazine/1962-the-daily-march-6
Radio Review: 1 March
Mark Lawson was responsible for a large part of my cultural education. Not the irritating one on Front Row, but my school friend of the same name, who introduced me to Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle’s Molesworth books and to Douglas Adams and John...
http://www.lady.co.uk/culture/television-film-radio/1929-radio-review-1-march
The day I saved a Hollywood superstar
So, the Oscars turned 85 – but remained glamorous as ever. Apart from the awards themselves, there was Shirley Bassey’s triumphant debut at the event; Barbra Streisand’s touching tribute to Marvin Hamlisch (even if she ‘talk-sang’ her way through much...
http://www.lady.co.uk/people/features/1903-the-day-i-saved-a-hollywood-superstar
‘Some species are just too expensive to save’
Chris Packham is not one to pull his punches. We’ve been chatting mere minutes and the stalwart of Springwatch has already condemned the perils of overpopulation, ruminated on oppressive regimes and faced up to the imminent extinction of tigers in the...
http://www.lady.co.uk/people/profiles/1857-some-species-are-just-too-expensive-to-save
The Daily: February 11
Fishy business Prince Charles attempts to save the smokehouse, Walter Purkis and Sons, which is facing closure due to an individual complaint about the fishy odours it is emanating. The 133-year-old Victorian family-run fishmongers, which managed to...
http://www.lady.co.uk/magazine/1809-the-daily-february-11
The Daily: February 7
Booted out of Monopoly Following a Facebook vote which closed yesterday, Monopoly fans from all over the world voted which playing piece should be binned, and what figure should replace it. In attempts to modernise the game, which was originally...
http://www.lady.co.uk/magazine/1805-the-daily-february-7
Book Reviews: 18 January
OUT NOW THE TINY WIFE by Andrew Kaufman (The Friday Project, £6.99) A bank robber targets a group of ordinary people, but instead of stealing their money, he steals their souls. In the days that follow, each one of them is overcome by a unique and...
http://www.lady.co.uk/culture/books/1665-book-reviews-18-january

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