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'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'

'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'

'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'

'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'

'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'

Born in Edinburgh, Edinburgh and the Lothians
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its autho - GK Chesterton
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Nicholas Breakspear is elected Pope - the only Englishman ever - 1154, The Observer First Published - 1791, Wuthering Heights Published - 1847, Gillingham Bus Disaster - 1951, Lewisham Train Crash Kills 90 - 1957, The Pill is introduced - 1961, Belfast Bar Bomb Kills 15 - 1971, The Hastie Fire - 1979
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