Michael Moynihan: Your dog is lovely — but it doesn’t belong in my coffee shop

As dogs invade shopping centres and cafés, have we lost all boundaries? It’s time for owners to reconsider public etiquette

Dogs are free to walk the streets. Their owners are obliged to clean up after them — some do, some don’t — but the road and the footpath are proper venues for a dog.

They say that at the height of his fame, Basil Rathbone turned down a significant part in a movie for one simple reason.

The part was a good one — Rathbone would have played the main villain, plenty of screen time, and it paid very well, but he still passed.