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Frances A Burscough

Frances Burscough

Scary movie? Their jaws were sore from laughing

Teenage boys love horror films and I have two who are in charge of the remote control in our house, so naturally there’s gore-a-plenty on the box most weekends. However, until recently one film was banned.

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Inside Frances A Burscough

My MasterChef diet is going down a treat

Monday, 30 January 2012

Is it poor programme scheduling or intentional cruelty that has lead to so many cookery programmes being shown in the month when we’re all supposed to be stressing about our weight?
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The offal truth about my Burns Night haggis

Monday, 23 January 2012

As you go about your grocery shopping this weekend, you’re almost certain to notice the return of a seasonal speciality stacked high in the perishable goods counter.
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I'll never forget the fateful day I turned car-jacker

Saturday, 21 January 2012

The recent spate of car-jackings in Belfast is a worrying new trend for a number of reasons. That it is a crime which demands bare-faced audacity and nerves of steel is certainly one.
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Ugly truth at how we treat women differently to men

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

A worrying trend has started to emerge in the tabloid press over recent years. It began as an occasional shocking observation about how fortune, coupled with extreme excess and/or vanity can end in catastrophe and was illustrated by a soap opera star with a drug-dissolved septum or a former TV beauty with collagen-inflated lips.
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Resolutions? I’ve a far better New Year plan

Monday, 9 January 2012

It is a well-known fact that most people who make a New Year’s resolution on December 31 have broken it within the first week of January.
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A masterplan to help you beat those New Year blues

Friday, 6 January 2012

So the tree is down and the decorations are back in the loft; your cards are now stuffed into the recycling bin and all that's left to remind you of Christmas are the few remaining Quality Street sweets that nobody likes, a scary credit card bill still unopened on the mantlepiece, a pair of jeans that are too tight to fasten and that small pile of unwanted presents in the corner awaiting further notice.
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My 2011 calendar girls’ year of highs and lows

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind, here’s my line-up of feisty femme fatales as reported on these pages over the year 2011, for the sake of auld lang syne ...
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Keep your festive spirit, this girl needs pressies!

Monday, 12 December 2011

Most of my favourite Christmas stories have one thing in common: the moral is always that love and friendship mean far more than material gifts.
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Having a pop at kickstarting retail: the very best in creative thinking

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say. And has never been more apparent in the world of retailing than during a recession like the one we’re stuck in now.
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Frances Burscough: My day as Marilyn Monroe

Friday, 2 December 2011

As the new film about Marilyn Monroe is released, Frances Burscough needed no excuse to hit the town after undergoing an amazing makeover as her screen idol
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Friends step up to the mark in Gurty’s honour

Monday, 28 November 2011

Regular readers of this column may recall a very sad Saturday in early July when I wrote about the loss of my wonderful friend Gareth ‘Gurty’ Dickson, who died suddenly at the tender age of 28.
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Celebs and their pooches give me paws for thought

Monday, 21 November 2011

A Co Down company that specialises in fashion, accoutrements and accessories has just launched a new range of unisex fragrances. Nothing unusual there, you might think.
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MTV party was great fun... from what I remember!

Monday, 14 November 2011

Blimey what a weekend that was! Sadly as a mere mortal I didn’t get a golden ticket to attend the actual MTV awards per se (despite trying everything I could think of to get my foot in the door ... er ... apart from blackmailing Justin Bieber with a paternity suit and streaking naked across the Odyssey).
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Throwing light on an award winning Belfast film costing �200

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Two hundred quid: what do you reckon you could do with that amount of money?
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A recipe that gets me all fired up for the big Guy

Monday, 7 November 2011

Remember, remember the fifth of November? How could I possibly forget? Guy Fawkes Night isn’t celebrated in Northern Ireland, but it’s a huge event in England and one I looked forward to with bated breath when I was a kid growing up in Lancashire.
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Why I’m so fed up with mice taking the mickey

Friday, 28 October 2011

I saw a mouse! Where? There on the stair. Where on the stair?
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Forty? Been there, done that, have the vouchers

Monday, 24 October 2011

A lot of very cool people are turning forty this month — Stella McCartney, Dannii Minogue, Snoop Dogg, Caprice, Jade Jagger, Winona Ryder and Sacha Baron Cohen, among others.
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Why I’m really proud of my charity trekking pal

Monday, 17 October 2011

I’m dedicating this column to a special friend who’s making me particularly proud today. Her name is Suzanne Savage, she lives in Bangor and many of you will know her as a loved and lively fixture on the Northern Ireland social circuit.
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Let Warney organise your next big day, Liz

Monday, 10 October 2011

It’s five years since I started as a columnist in the Belfast Telegraph but I’ll never forget my first celebrity article. This was a commentary on “the society wedding of the year 2007” — Liz Hurley and Arun Nayar.
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