This week saw the birth of a new folk anti-hero — in the North Yorkshire town of Hawes. He is Steve Bloom, 63, the wonderfully grumpy, deliberately obstreperous second-hand bookseller who hit the headlines for charging a 50p entry fee (deductible from any purchase) to all visitors to his tiny, cluttered shop and consequently falling out with a good number of them. He called one customer — a doctor from Shropshire, who was browsing with two friends — a ‘pain in the a***’. And he has chivvied other browsers, page-flickers, badly behaved children and, well, pretty much anyone else who simply irritated him, to leave his premises. ...read
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Big Dave, the royal host with the most! Gloriously flamboyant, exquisitely tailored and a larger than life personality - no wonder the Queen adores him
Hotel boss David Morgan-Hewitt (left), who escorted the Queen to safety when an intruder disturbed her lunch at the Goring in London (right), astonishingly good at his job, writes JANE FRYER. Morgan-Hewitt, known fondly as ‘Big Dave’, ‘Camp David’ (on account of his flamboyant manner) and, less fondly to some, as ‘Morgan Huge-Git’, is the Durham-educated history graduate who is the Goring Hotel’s world-famous, award-winning, awesomely dedicated managing director. The late Baroness Thatcher (inset with Mr Morgan-Hewitt), John Major and Tony Blair are all fans, along with showbiz royalty and, of course, real royals. ...read
Don't mention that damn dog! After Hezza's unfortunate confession about choking his mother's Alsatian, JANE FRYER meets the Heseltines and their three (alive and well) pooches
Lord and Lady Heseltine are whizzing around their magnificent 70-acre Northamptonshire garden in matching golf buggies, his and her brown suede loafers, lustrous silver locks ruffling in the cold November breeze and yelling to each other in impossibly posh voices. I am in Anne's buggy. She is 82 but looks 62; says 'vair', instead of 'very' and is exceptionally good company, chatting on and on about a lifestyle that's alien to most of the rest of us. Also on board are Caspar - a raggedy old dachshund - Fergus, a Westie, and creaking alongside is Archie, an old black labrador whose rasping Darth Vader breathing (apparently caused by laryngeal paralysis) almost drowns out the whirr of buggy. ...read
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- Horrifying moment a truck driver mows down soldiers in Jerusalem - and REVERSES over them - killing four and injuring 15 before being shot dead at the wheel, as Israeli PM blames attack on ISIS
- Theresa May reopens row with Donald Trump over his 'p****' jibe at women by branding the comments 'unacceptable' - hours after he tweeted he's looking forward to meeting her
- Teenager who provoked a police appeal after going missing for three days is found
- Hacking cough plaguing Britain could be caused by virus that gives sufferers PNEUMONIA, warn experts
- Nigel Farage once downed WHISKY before lessons at his posh public school when he was just 14 but was let off a caning when he owned up
- 'I'm NOT muddled!' PM May dismisses mandarin attack on her 'ambitious' Brexit strategy and gives the clearest signal yet she WILL quit single market
- Former Asda worker is the first British MAN to become PREGNANT after finding a sperm donor on Facebook - and plans to complete gender transition after the birth
- London to Edinburgh in 45 minutes: 760mph UK rail link takes step closer to reality as it makes shortlist for Elon Musk's Hyperloop One project
- Union baron plotting rail chaos is accused of being 'disingenuous' about train dangers to justify strikes
- The end of the rise for Aldi and Lidl? Discount supermarkets 'suffer poor Christmas trading because shops look like they've been robbed by a load of schoolkids'
- 'Poorly lit and full of mumbling': BBC is criticised AGAIN over poor sound quality as viewers complain they need subtitles for Tom Hardy's new drama Taboo
- Ex-jockey reveals his agony after his stolen shotgun was used by Hitler fanatic to kill Jo Cox MP
- 'It's nice to finally talk to someone about this': Morrison's dishes up SEX advice after a man's hilarious complaint about a doughnut goes viral
- What a trouper! Queen travels under heavy blanket as she battles heavy cold to attend church after a MONTH indoors as she is joined at Sandringham by Prince Philip and a beaming William and birthday girl Kate
- Zara Phillips tumbles from her horse at the polo in Australia before walking hand-in-hand with husband Mike Tindall… as the couple make their first public appearance since announcing her miscarriage
- MI5 'launch hunt for Syrian scientist posing as refugee plotting a chemical attack on a British seaside town'
- Inside the Obamas' final star-studded party: White House bash goes on until 4am with Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and SJP on the dance floor and chicken and waffles for breakfast
- Horrifying moment a truck driver mows down soldiers in Jerusalem - and REVERSES over them - killing four and injuring 15 before being shot dead at the wheel, as Israeli PM blames attack on ISIS
- Brad Pitt's fury over leaked court records as friends accuse Angelina of 'hurting family' by playing bitter split out in public
- Our little miracle of Longleat: Lady Weymouth – Britain’s first black aristocrat – reveals the devastating illness that made a natural delivery too dangerous… and led to a surrogate baby
- 72 MILLION are put under a winter storm warning: Three dead as Northeast is buried in blizzards and thousands are left without power in the South while California braces for conditions 'not seen for a decade' in coast-to-coast wall of snow
- 'Is that a RAT?': Woman posts a glamorous selfie of her getting ready for a night out but Twitter is more concerned with her extremely messy bedroom
- The British girl from Rochdale who became a jihadi bride for the American who rose to the top of ISIS - then had to flee back to the west and divorce him
- 'I was sure I was dead': Magician David Blaine's attempt to fire a rifle and catch the bullet in his mouth goes horribly wrong
- 'My girl was not raised like that': Grandmother of two black sisters involved in torture of a white special needs teenager apologizes to the victim as judge denies them bail, saying they're a 'danger to society'
- Hacking cough that can last weeks has struck down thousands of people but doctors say there's nothing they can do about it
- Texas mother LAUGHS in her mugshot as she is charged with mutilating and killing her five-year-old daughter in case police say is the 'worst they have ever seen'
- Massive brawl breaks out at maximum security jail housing Chicago's most dangerous prisoners: Five are taken to hospital after inmates attack each other with weapons made from INHALERS
- Meghan plans to walk up the aisle with Harry VERY soon: Ms Markle will accompany the Prince to Jamaica as he plays the role of best man at his former 'partner in crime's' wedding
- Sick thug filmed rape of his girlfriend and threatened to post it online if she left him - then put photos of the injuries he'd inflicted on his Facebook
- Mother and boyfriend charged after her 14-year-old adopted daughter was raped, slaughtered and chopped up in 'sick rape-murder fantasy they plotted for more than a year'
- What a trouper! Queen travels under heavy blanket as she battles heavy cold to attend church after a MONTH indoors as she is joined at Sandringham by Prince Philip and a beaming William and birthday girl Kate
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