20 MAY 2006, page 62

Walking On Eggshells

Simon Hoggart I went to train in Manchester a year or so after the Moors murders, and they continued to hang over the city like an oldfashioned smog, sickening and inescapable.......

Honest John

Michael Vestey A lthough writing a biography of John Osborne can’t be the most difficult task as Osborne left voluminous and laceratingly honest diaries, as well as the two......

Always Around

Simon Courtauld T here never seems to be any shortage of pigeons. Whether feeding in a field of corn or rape by day or coming into woodland at dusk, they are always around.......