The 85-year-old actor is still recovering from his injuries and says it’s a reminder to us all to watch our step.

Grey hair is having a bit of a moment. A-listers such as Helen Mirren, Jane Fonda, Andie MacDowell and Sharon Stone have all proudly embraced it. Even Debbie Harry is shunning the style that gave her ...

Ask the dapper 11th Duke of Richmond to name his all-time favourite car, and one of motorsport’s most affable characters suddenly plays coy. The brains behind the Goodwood Revival has been the proud ...

Our neighbour’s ridiculously tiny new dog never stops yapping. My husband has taken to standing in the garden at all hours, mimicking it to make a point. It sounds funny but I’m embarrassed. I don’t ...

Dr Lucy Pollock is a geriatrician at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and author of The Golden Rule: Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing, which advises us all to seize life with both hands as we ...

One of the most important retail lessons I’ve learnt in life is that no good will ever come from entering a shop that’s too posh to display its prices. Allow me to share with you the cautionary tale ...

When the mother of all dictionaries, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) was first proposed in 1857, the founders wanted it to include every word in the English language. Not only that, they also ...

Big day on 7 September: two years since we met. Flags are going up on the Medina Bookshop, in Cowes High Street, where it all began; when this total stranger walked ...

My husband was made redundant about a year ago and seems to have embraced an early retirement. He is not even trying to get a new job and his inertia is driving me mad. While I understand that it’s ...

Thanks to the dictionary, I now know I’m a ‘whiffler’. This very old term essentially describes someone who blows this way and that and can never quite make up their mind – as in the old joke: "I used ...

Until quite recently, checking your blood pressure was something done only in the doctor’s surgery with a scary-looking barometer-style sphygmomanometer. You’d be nervous, which, ironically, sent your ...