Thousands of women will receive letters stating they are owed £13,500 over state pension scandal

Windfall for women in state pension scandal: Hundreds of thousands will receive letters stating they are owed £13,500 over admin blunders dating back 30 years Scandal will cost the Work and Pensions Department estimated £3bn to rectify Team of 155 civil servants is working through files to trace every woman affected Relates to failure to … Read more

Unseen letters sent by Princess Diana to friends go up for auction

Princess Diana’s letters to family friend Roger Bramble including one about William and Harry being ‘thrilled’ to join in ‘adult conversations’ are tipped to fetch £1,500 each at auction Unseen letters Princess Diana penned to closest friends have been unearthed They are written to those who helped her through her separation from Charles  The three … Read more

Unseen letters by Princess Diana to friends who helped her through separation to Prince Charles

Princess Diana’s letters to family friend Roger Bramble including one about William and Harry being ‘thrilled’ to join in ‘adult conversations’ are tipped to fetch £1,500 each at auction Unseen letters Princess Diana penned to closest friends have been unearthed They are written to those who helped her through her separation from Charles  The three … Read more

Letters between Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto reveal their close bond

GARDENING Dear Friend And Gardener by Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto (Aurum £9.99, 304 pp)  Even if you’ve never heard of Beth Chatto and Christopher Lloyd, they have probably influenced the way you garden. If your pots and borders look lush and tropical in late summer, you’re copying the style that Christo — as everyone … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Letters by Sir Sean Connery that reveal his very first love 

Sir Sean Connery‘s heart never really left his native Scotland — and, in particular, Edinburgh, the city of his birth and of his life before Bond and stardom. And now a hitherto unseen collection of private letters is being auctioned which will leave his admirers shaken, if not stirred, as they reveal how much Auld … Read more

George Clooney sews his children’s clothing and exchanges letters with wife Amal

George Clooney, 59, reveals he sews his children’s clothing and exchanges letters with wife Amal as he graces the cover of AARP By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com Published: 16:47 GMT, 29 January 2021 | Updated: 16:47 GMT, 29 January 2021 George Clooney has revealed his secret sewing abilities and letter writing tradition with wife Amal … Read more

How letters nearly put paid to David Lean’s version of A Passage To India

How E.M. Forster’s estate nearly put paid to David Lean’s version of A Passage To India Classic film earned 11 Oscar nominations upon its release in 1982, winning two Newly found letters found those who control the rights to the book were worried Director David Lean stuck to his proposed ending after a charm offensive By … Read more

Letters inviting patients to book Covid-19 jab will be sent out to FIVE MILLION Britons from Monday

Over 5million more Britons will be invited to receive a coronavirus jab from today. In a major milestone for the vaccination programme, letters will start being sent to those in England in the next two priority groups. This includes 4.6million in their 70s plus another one million classed as ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ because they have … Read more

Lost letters reveal authors JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson were big admirers of each other 

When Peter Pan loved Long John Silver! Lost letters reveal famed authors JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson were big admirers of each other Letters from Scottish authors JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson published   Dated between 1892 and 94, they show they shared an affectionate relationship Despite bonding over their love of writing, the … Read more

Alphabet: Canaanite miners in Ancient Egypt made simple letters from intricate hieroglyphs

The alphabet was invented by illiterate Canaanite miners in ancient Egypt who turned elaborate hieroglyphs into basic letters 4,000 years ago, a study claimed. In 2006, Egyptologist Orly Goldwasser argued that symbols on artefacts from a temple in the Sinai are prototypes of the letters that we use to read and write today. While it had … Read more