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Didn't know he was ever into comedy. Started off doing rather poor Norman Wisdom impressions and puerile slapstick and spent the rest of his career pulling faces and looking like Charles Laughton. Singularly unfunny, overrated and has decided to call it quits as the work has dried up. Sensible...

Don't think George Cole was first choice for Arthur Daley but for the life of me can't remember who was first choice.

Peter Sellers was first choice for Fagin in Lionel Bart's Oliver. Ron Moody who ended up in the role, was third or fourth choice.

'I vow to thee my country ' is beautiful but the winner for me is...... ' There'll always be an England Where there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain There'll always be an England While there's a busy street Wherever there's a turning wheel A million...

Like you, I was a little sceptical about the figures. Wonder whether it was a ploy to get some extra publicity and a little bit of press work ( or am I just being cynical as usual )

and sadly ,neither are England. When you think back to the days when the fixture really meant something, was played annually and the whole nation knew the result. Finney, Edwards, Charlton, Moore, Greaves, Haynes, Banks, Shilton, Peters, Robson, Ball, Bell, Mullery, Hurst....Baxter, Henderson...

Considering the size of the city, a surprisingly low percentage of fans actually come from the Brighton and Hove conurbation. The real heartland of Albion fans is ' up-country ' If you draw an arc from Worthing, through Horsham, Haywards Heath and down to Eastbourne and Hastings...thats where...

1) Annual revenue from the crossing, year ending 31/03/13....£80,331,662. 2) Average usage...130,000 vehicles per day. 3) Average annual usage ( approx )....47,000,000 4) Average revenue from each vehicle...approx £1.70.

Agree...it should be and it was going to be, after initial construction costs were paid for, but certain powers to be decided that the revenue was too great to turn away. Now its risen, in stages from £1 ( for cars ) to £2.50 and that, despite making hundreds of people redundant and saving a...

No it won't....spoke to an independent traffic expert yesterday and he and fellow experts are predicting a rise in M25 traffic travelling west of between 22-28%. Bearing in mind that some of the ' western ' sections ( around Heathrow/M4/M40 ) are the busiest in Europe, I suggest we are in for...

I don't think Jose would find it easy but he would definitely have us higher up the division. Some people are slagging off teams from the past but this current bunch is barely Championship quality. We have a captain and supposed leader who can't string a decent game together at the moment. A new...

Single Skulls....Single Skulks. Played alone, it relies on the individual lurking in the strangest places. Trying to keep oneself concealed but at the same time deliberately arousing suspicion, particularly among the female fraternity.e.g Standing outside ladies toilets selling sanitary wear ( "...

Touch rugby....Torch rugby. Same principle....each player carries a flaming torch and once a member of the opposition is firmly ablaze, they have to withdraw from the game.

I would change ' fan ' to ' follower '

A lot of people are misguided into thinking that there has always been prejudice and bigotry shown to black players in this country. Not so. For years, players like Lindy Delapino, Charlie Williams, Cec Podd and Albert Johannson plied their trade as pro footballers and were afforded respect and...

Lawn Green Bowls....Lorne Greene Bowls. Players stand on the rink with a burning copy of a map of the Ponderosa. The winner is the player who can hang onto his map the longest. The winner's prize is to be able to shout " Bonanza " at the top of their voice.

Marbles...Garbles. Groups gather in a small village called Tinsley Green and just garble nonsense outside the local pub, whilst keeping their small, hard balls, firmly in their pockets.

The next question is.....when did they come down? I seem to remember about 2000 Chelsea fans gaining pretty easy access to the pitch early in the 83-84 season.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary ( 1976 )....' n-g-er brown '...." dark shade of brown " ....and thank you for those kind words that follow...I shall treasure them.