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Frances A Burscough
I know who’s to blame for game ending
BBC Northern Ireland has served us well over the years I think. While other
regions and networks can often appear amateur and provincial, the quality of
its television programmes is usually of an impressively high standard on par
with its national equivalents.
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Inside Frances A Burscough
Seamus is a poet, but not as you’d know it
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Congratulations and a hearty slap on the back to Belfast poet and rap artist
Seamus Fox for winning the All-Ireland Poetry Slam Championship Finals in
Galway this week. If his recent form is anything to go by then the accolade
is certainly well-deserved and long-overdue.
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Why I’d like to be served up a helping of sexy Michel
Thursday, 22 October 2009
If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen and tonight the remaining
three chefs will face their ultimate cook-off in BBC’s Masterchef: The
Professionals grand finale.
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Heartless social workers must show sympathy
Thursday, 22 October 2009
It gets worse. Two weeks after expressing utter incredulity at the way two
English women were forced — by law — to stop minding each other’s children
as part of their amicable and private job-share arrangement, a new story
catches my eye which even surpasses that one for its anti-social,
bordering-on-inhuman, implications.
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To think we burned our bras for this silly survey
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Tammy Wynette was definitely right. Sometimes it is hard to be a woman. But
now, it seems, we are finding it hard most of the time.
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Tyra shows how to be a perfect model
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Tyra Banks, the model turned TV producer who is as famous for the catchphrase 'Unleash your inner fierceness' as for her perfect face, seems to be practising what she preaches.
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How did Luther's name get on this dross?
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Luther Vandross, the smooth and sexy soul singer who died in 2005 has been honoured with a dubious posthumous accolade. His name has been given to a new burger which is selling like hot cakes across America and is so unhealthy and fattening that Homer Simpson himself would have difficulty finishing one.
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Why Cowell bash didn't have that big X Factor
Thursday, 8 October 2009
What do you give to the man who has everything but who claims he hates lavish A-List parties awash with ego-mad celebrities and swarming with pushy paparazzi?
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Is the convertible bra a flash of genius?
Thursday, 8 October 2009
And the award goes to...
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It was enough to make Coco go loco
Thursday, 8 October 2009
It was a scene that would have the late Coco Chanel turning in her grave. Dishevelled models promenading and do-si-do-ing on a catwalk strewn with straw, whilst Lilly Allen and her band of hillbilly lookalikes strum and fiddle their way through a repertoire of bluegrass inspired half-hits on centre stage. Whatever is the fashion world coming to?
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Now is the time to axe this mother of daft laws
Thursday, 1 October 2009
You don't have to be a single mother like me to find the following story infuriating. In fact, you don't even need to be a parent; just a human being with the most basic grasp of what's right and wrong.
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How every woman can play the Teese
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Dita Von Teese - the name may sound like a drag queen's, though believe me, she ain't - but if you haven't heard it before you will after this week.
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Why we should have a gander at geese
Thursday, 1 October 2009
One of the great joys of living by the sea is watching the migrant birds fly in and out each season.
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Frances Burscough: I Iearned a tough lesson from my first digs at uni
Saturday, 26 September 2009
My nephew Joe left home this week to go to university. It’s a huge step for a
teenager but if anyone can carry it off with aplomb he certainly can.
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Why size zero cult is wearing a bit thin
Thursday, 24 September 2009
London Fashion Week was in uproar this week. Hissy-fits, tantrums, tears and tiffs ensued - even more than usual - as one after another influential designer chose realistically-sized models instead of emaciated stick insects to showcase their collections on the catwalks.
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Madge tripped up over memory slip
Thursday, 24 September 2009
It has always irked me greatly, the fact that Madonna appears to have a
selective memory of her early days. So selective, in fact, that she has
blotted out completely her appearance at the Hacienda Club in Manchester in
1984.
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Latex and leather is not good look, ladies
Thursday, 24 September 2009
There was a time when burning a bra was all it took for a woman to prove she was in control of her own life. Thirty-odd (very odd) years on and that seems like such a simple solution.
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It’s my time to sort out the men from the toys‘
Monday, 21 September 2009
Where does the time go? It’s the most common cliché you hear when you’re a
parent but only because it sums up so succinctly the way kids race through
childhood.
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Frances Burscough: Why racist comments just make me see red
Thursday, 10 September 2009
A friend sent me a racist email this week. It was meant as a joke but I was appalled. I won't even repeat it, for fear of the offence it might cause. My heart always sinks when someone begins a line with "I'm not racist, but ... "
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Oh Colin Firth, to me you really are a big star
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Think of Colin Firth and, if you're a hot-blooded female (or a regular gay man) then you think of just one thing ... the vision of him emerging from that dip in the ditch, wearing wet, white, compromisingly-transparent riding breeches.
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Frances Burscough: I’m pigging out on geeks in my swine-flu sickbed
Saturday, 5 September 2009
Rumours of my death may be a slight exaggeration, but I have been confined to
my bed all week with swine flu.
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