How do you get a free airline upgrade?

How do you get a free airline upgrade?

Does it only happen to celebrities or those who moan a lot? Can smiling beguilingly at the airline’s agent do the trick? Perhaps a cheeky wink or fabricating a desperate yarn will work wonders. I’m talking about free upgrades on aircraft seats. Has it...

Publish and you are damned!

I have twice deleted a post I have written. On the first occasion, it was a personal account about a friend’s difficult relationship with his mother who happens to be a titled lady and it later caused him some embarrassment, though he was in full agreement at...
A lesson in school dinners

A lesson in school dinners

‘-I was driving to my mother’s home yesterday – she is still in a teenage tizz over the “dazzling doctor” who cared for her in hospital this week – and heard the Radio 4 Food Programme awards. I was particularly impressed with an...
Mobs demand death over teddy’s name

Mobs demand death over teddy’s name

How much worse can this unbelievable situation get? This picture of mobs wielding clubs and knives today in Khartoum looks terrifying. There are demands that her 15 day jail sentence was too lenient and that she should be shot. The great thing about British law is its...
Government urged to support families of the missing

Government urged to support families of the missing

The anguished mother of a missing son is urging the government to provide desperately needed support and additional police training to deal with these unfathomable cases. Nicki Durbin, mother of Luke (pic left) who vanished in May 2006 aged 19, and Valerie Nettles,...