Person: John Betjeman

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home and gardens

Diverse spectrum of wildlife in London’s Hampstead Heath

It’s a beautiful morning outside the window, the parakeets’ plumage a vivid green, their beaks very red, brighter than the red grapes over which they are having a barney with a starling, the plumage of which, in this light, is also exotic and lovely.

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Mairead Buicke on the Music in Monkstown Festival and going from pipe band to Puccini

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Book review: She Died Young

rugby

France aim to go distance

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Ross O’ Carroll-Kelly still has the roight stuff

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Book review: Life, Love and The Archers

Church’s hierarchy shows its colours

An arrogant Church hierarchy has a long history of scapegoating and trying to cover up serious scandals, says Ryle Dwyer

Thu, 24 Jul, 2014

Poetic champion composed: Josephine Hart’s great literary insight

Life Saving: Why We Need Poetry, Introductions to Great Poets

Sat, 15 Dec, 2012

Airport tweet man wins case on appeal

A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet has won his challenge against conviction.

Fri, 27 Jul, 2012

Fry stands by 'blow airport sky high!' tweeter in court

A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet had celebrity backing as he renewed his challenge against conviction in the UK today.

Wed, 27 Jun, 2012

Heaney calls for poet Hughes to be honoured

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has called for Ted Hughes to be honoured in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey.

Tue, 01 Dec, 2009

The fragile wonders surrounding us

Damien Enright is reminded of how precious nature is

Mon, 08 Sep, 2008

Writer did an excellent job in her ‘spy’ reports to London

I CAN assure Martin Mansergh (Letters, Sept 9) that I have neither the inclination nor the power to excommunicate Elizabeth Bowen or anybody else from anything they might wish to be.

Mon, 17 Sep, 2007

Nature’s best — no better formula for birds and babes

EACH YEAR, at about this time, a pair of local magpies and a troop of jackdaws regularly raid the bird table. The jackdaws hang upside down on the peanut feeder, banging away with their beaks.

Mon, 29 May, 2006

8.51am: first blast claims at least seven lives

AT least seven people were killed in the first blast in a tube tunnel at 8.51am, but eyewitnesses spoke of seeing many bodies in the wreckage of the train.

Fri, 08 Jul, 2005

Mosley's widow dies in France at 93

Lady Diana Mosley, the former wife of 1930s British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, has died at the age of 93.

Wed, 13 Aug, 2003

Rare Lawrence of Arabia book to be sold

A rare copy of a book by Lawrence of Arabia is to be sold at auction.

Sat, 17 Feb, 2001