Most of my friends know that I’ve been ill, going in and out of hospital for the last several years. At last, I’m well enough to start a new programme of talks and events, to promote my books and return to my Dickens ‘stuff.’ The purpose of this message is only to say that I
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Because she is doing a 15 mile charity run to raise money to thank Great Ormond Street Hospital for saving her little sister’s life when she was only seven weeks old. Now six years older, healthy Natasha has just had a nasty accident in their local park, cutting her head badly. While Mum Camilla drove
On May 8, 1945, German forces occupying the Channel Islands announced that the war was over. That afternoon, Winston Churchill broadcast these words to the Islands: “Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight, but in the interests of saving lives the “Cease fire” began yesterday to be sounded all along the front,