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Bridge columnist David Ezekiel reflects on some fatherly wisdom

Welcome to the first column in 2023 and I hope the year brings you all good health and happiness, and lots of great things happening at the bridge table! Some phrases you hear in your childhood stay with you for your entire existence, and a favourite...

Gary Fray was 20 when he joined the board of Warwick Workmen’s Club. Shy, and “not used to club life”, he recalls how he kept his mouth shut during their regular meetings around a long, wooden table. “The only things I said were ‘good evening’ and ‘g...

Kat Wilson picked up her first pool cue at university. She was getting over a break up and it was a fun way to get out and meet people. She was playing under much more serious conditions when she met her husband, Karl. The pair were competing in Las...

Dudley Cottingham never thought of church as purely a place to worship, it also represented family. He was a choirboy at St James Church in Westbrook, Kent. “We had a great time,” the 64-year-old said. “The young people would meet in the church hal...

I must start with the sad and shocking news of the untimely demise of Vera Petty last week — Vera passed away peacefully in the company of her family. Truly sad for someone nowhere near an age where one would expect this to happen. An astonishingly t...

"I've always really liked dogs and I wanted to do something more than have them at home," is the reason Hannah Shadbolt gave for entering competitions with her male Phalène, a type of Papillon, Shadow. "I wanted to get him out and do something with h...

"We were good friends. He was a good soldier and missed very few battles. He was always up there with us. He never shirked. A fellow you could depend on". @EDITRULE: This is how Graham Madeiros describes his World War II comrade, Elliott Aubrey. It i...