The lead in this tale is Darius, famed for his tight-fisted ways with money that would make Felix Grandet from "The Miser" seem...

Gary Torrens was a north London hipster. He listened to post-Marxist ambient funk music and attended weaving shows while regularly buying...

Misty Wonder was a top notch racing greyhound and from his early days as a pup, was earmarked as a potential Greyhound Derby candidate...

Success in love and magic had eluded our friend Claude, who had received a paean in neither. Blessed with his silver trousers and black...

Michael Dukovsky first was likened to President Nixon in his mid-thirties. Dark, bristling eyebrows, and a mouth that rarely experienced...

A slightly misleading headline maybe, but a few things have happened to me with a sense of deja vu, and certainly events have happened of...

It came in 1992, a great holiday with my mates from school after the first year of A-levels. Memorable in so many ways, when Guy decided...

I used to date one actress who vanished into thin air, then managed a date with someone who appeared in Sliding Doors. That failed to go...

Legend has it that actor William Terriss haunts Covent Garden tube station, so too the Adelphi Theatre. Terriss was seen in 2005 at the...

When I started out in journalism, the landscape was very different to what we see today. It was 'old school' with ashtrays at desks,...