Andrew Vine

Jubilees were the great milestones of Queen Elizabeth’s 70-year reign, when the nation came together in joyous celebrations.

Tuesday (Apr 21) marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Queen Elizabeth. Andrew Vine reflects on the life and legacy of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.

It looks like we’re heading for gaps on the supermarket shelves this summer as the ripples from the conflict in the Middle East continue to spread into everyday life. Shortages of some meats, including chicken, are on the cards and fresh fruit and vegetables may be affected because supplies of the carbon dioxide used to extend their shelf life could be restricted.

Wednesday marks the 15th anniversary of the wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Andrew Vine looks back on one of the most joyous Royal events of modern times.

It must be nearly 50 years since I first walked across Walshaw Moor as part of a school trip to Haworth to learn about the Bronte sisters. My sense of seeing what they had seen in the first half of the 19th century on their explorations of the moors above the village parsonage was very strong, and I’ve never forgotten it.

I’m £150 out of pocket thanks to the potholed roads we’re all plagued by, but even so I count myself lucky. A neighbour has just been landed with a £600-plus bill for repairing her car’s suspension after hitting a hole at night which she didn’t see until too late and had no way of avoiding.

A WORD you might not have heard before will feature in the conversations of airline staff in the next few weeks as the holiday season gets into full swing – “floozing”.

Like most of us, I used to have a pretty good idea of how much my weekly food shopping would cost. But just recently, I keep getting a nasty surprise at the checkout.

THE queue to get into the National Railway Museum, in York, was quite long and the staff on reception were being rebuffed by almost everyone in front of me.

It’s difficult to imagine the revulsion and horror that MP Jess Asato must have felt when she became aware that fake images of her had been posted online. They depicted the Labour MP for Lowestoft, in Suffolk, in a state of undress, and one especially repellent image had overtones of her as the victim of a sexual assault.