1. Elton Hercules John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947 in Pinner, Middlesex.
2. His father, Stanley Dwight, was an RAF flight lieutenant and big band trumpet player. He divorced Elton’s mother Sheila in 1962.
3. Elton began playing the piano when he was three or four and went to the Royal Academy of […]
African Big Brother contestant Gaetano Kagwa is getting to know contestants in the UK version of the show after swapping places with one of their contestants.
The 30-year-old law student from Kampala, Uganda has moved into the surveillance gameshow’s house in Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire, to join the six British contestants.
Meanwhile, 32-year-old Cameron Stout entered the African […]
A series of pregnancy discrimination ‘horror’ stories has prompted the first ever investigation into the way pregnant women are treated at work.
The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) said it would be launching a 17-month inquiry, because it was receiving more complaints about the subject than any other issue.
Each year, many women are sacked, or threatened […]
A boys’ club, which has been in existence since 1941, is to close later this year.
Chairman of Bedminster Boys’ Club, Andy Lewis, said the group’s financial and staffing positions meant it would cease to meet after June.
Last year, a 30,000 grant made by Bristol City Council was discontinued after a reorganisation of funding.
A potential merger […]
Brecon residents are objecting to a concert by Welsh rock group, the Super Furry Animals, at the Brecon Jazz Festival next month.
A petition has been signed by 84 people living near the field, where the band will perform in a marquee on 12 August.
Residents claim the concert has been “sprung” on them, although festival organisers […]
Turning on the era in which he did much of his growing up (he was born in 1953), the prime minister said the 60s had been a time of great change, but “some took the freedom without the adult dating free online personal
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He said people now want a society based on respect and responsibility and […]
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gners want us to switch off the box this week, arguing that television has come to rule our lives. But a new book in the US flies in the face of fashion and suggests that watching TV makes you smarter.
Britain in the 1970s was a troubled place to be. But amid […]
Amusing thing happens when waiting in a departure lounge. Go online on public terminal, fancy a bit of the Monitor for diversion, and find that - alone among BBC pages, access is forbidden. “Unsuitable content,” it says.
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In Microsoft aims to trounce Google (27 October), Bill Gates said that “the PC of today is still […]
George Michael is considered a musical veteran in today’s climate of short-lived manufactured singers and bands.
But the career of the outspoken singer has also been one dogged by ups and downs, with his fair share of controversy, exemplified by his caution for possession of cannabis in London.
He started out in boy band Wham! as […]
“I’m going to be a super star musician, kill myself and go out in a flame of glory,” he told a school friend.
Nirvana were formed in 1987 after Cobain joined bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dale Crover to record a demo.
A debut single and album followed, and by 1991 the band (with […]
