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Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Profile of the controversial Irish author Edna O'Brien, with her diaries read by Jessie Buckley 2024
Times
12-05-2025
- General
- Times
Prue Leith: the nine people I miss every day
Celebration Day is when we should celebrate people no longer with us, those who we loved or admired, or who helped, encouraged or inspired us. I have nine people on my list and I think about them a lot. Most are family because I grew up in a stable, happy family, with my parents and two brothers. I'm now the sole survivor, but they are still, oddly, somehow with me. My adored father died when I was 20 and he only 54. My mother's diaries record him saying: 'I used to think our Prue was solid gold under a dusting of froth and nonsense, but now I think maybe she's just a thin veneer of gold over nothing but frivolity.' He had good reason for
BBC News
08-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Milton Keynes grandad's diaries are window into wartime role
Grandad's diaries are window into wartime role The granddaughter of a man who served in World War Two says his diaries have given her a valuable insight into what was asked of young people during that time. Della Judd, who lives in Milton Keynes, says that by the age of 18, her grandfather John Teague was requisitioning housing and rehoming civilians in London, following the widespread destruction caused by German air raids. Mr Teague later went on to serve as an RAF wireless operator mechanic at British military bases across Europe. "He was given serious tasks and so much responsibility at such a young age," she said. "I can't imagine my own 20-year-old son doing something similar, which puts things into perspective."
