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Frances A Burscough

Frances Burscough

I’ll be keeping my feet firmly on the ground from now on

Well folks I did it. I actually did it. I jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet and lived to tell the tale.

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Inside Frances A Burscough

Waltons are one family who should stay in the past

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be, is it? The television and film industries just keep on trying to reinvent and remake old shows from the past that were perfectly fine in the first place. Why can't they just leave well alone and move on to fresh new ideas?
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In search of the ideal way to cross the Irish Sea while awaiting the opening of that feat of engineering genius, the Titanic Tunnel? Well, you need look no further

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

I have lived on these shores now for more than two decades since “blowing-in” from England in the early '90s and ever since then I've waited, hoped and prayed for a civil engineering genius to build a tunnel across the Irish Sea connecting the two islands. Or, better still, a bridge.
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Heavens above! What on earth could this celestial sight mean?

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

In ancient times the sight of a shooting star or comet was always greeted with superstition.
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Why the TV is just like another member of our happy family

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

All this talk of the nationwide digital changeover has led to a few moments of nostalgia for the tellies of yesteryear. Not just the programmes, but the actual sets themselves.
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The most important job in my life looks like it’s finally done

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

There are certain events in your child's life that you can never forget; rites of passage that stay burnt into your memory with a flash-bulb and all it takes is a moment of nostalgia or a jolt of realisation for them to develop once again in full colour before your mind's eye.
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Why my son isn’t feeling the strain of going to uni

Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Freshers’ Week begins next weekend for thousands of students who are flying the nest for the first time and leaving home to go to university.
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Oh Brother ... these celebs make compulsive viewing

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Channel 5 I salute you. You took a tired, lacklustre, flagging show that had been mired by unwise casting and controversy; you shook it up, made a few tweaks here and there, altered the ageing format ever so slightly, injected new life into it and finally restored it to its former grotesque glory.
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Flesh eating zombies might be stalking the streets but if there's a product placement on hand all is well with the world

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

I really cannot wait for the new James Bond film Skyfall to be released next month. Not just because I'm a huge Bond fan — and always have been since the days of sex-god Sean Connery and his dress-unzipping magnetic watch; but for another, very 21st-century reason.
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Forget festival fever, I prefer lakeland heaven

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

I'm writing this week from one of the most idyllic settings in Northern Ireland. As I tap away on my laptop, the sparkling waters of Lough Erne are lapping below my feet from the rippling wake of a passing mute swan and its ungainly brood of cygnets.
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My night with the stars ended with Z-list celebs

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

’The Perseid Meteor Shower: an annual phenomenon in the Northern Hemisphere in which particles of dust trailing behind the wake of the comet Swift-Tuttle enter the earth's atmosphere and burn up as a spectacular display of shooting stars.
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My romance ended before we even got to fight on hols

Tuesday, 14 August 2012

So, that was a bit of a damp squib. Yes, I'm afraid so. The shiny new relationship that I proudly announced on these pages just a few weeks ago — believing that this was finally the one at last — has already come to an inglorious end.
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