One happy camper.. ne happy camper...
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Song for a dying hero on his 100th birthday
My wedding to Bronson will go ahead BRITAIN’S most violent prisoner is still on course to marry behind bars. Charles Bronson’s fiancée Lorraine Etherington yesterday ‘categorically’ denied reports she had dumped the 62-year-old. She said armed robber Bronson – real name Michael Peterson – was ‘certainly not sat in Wakefield Prison nursing a broken heart’. The bride-to-be, in her 40s, founded the Charlie Bronson Appeal Fund in January 2011.
Farewell chorus: Sidney Doel with his late wife Kathleen Picture: SWNS
A WAR hero died on the day he reached 100, as his family gathered round singing Happy Birthday. Sidney Doel, who won medals for his courage during World War II, had invited loved ones, including some of his 14 great-grandchildren, to lunch to celebrate his centenary. But his relatives quickly realised he was unwell. They crowded round his bed at his Plymouth care home and sang as he slipped away. Son Eric Doel, 56, said: ‘The last thing that goes when people are dying is their hearing, so we sang Happy Birthday. It was the nicest way for dad to go.’ Sidney joined
by lydia willgress
the Army at 18 and won four medals for his wartime courage. After leaving the forces he got a job with British Rail. He met his future wife Kathleen outside a pub when he stopped to ask her the time. They wed in 1936 and were married for more than 60 years until her death 12 years ago. Shirley Kemp, one of four daughters, said: ‘He didn’t even get to see his card from the Queen.’ She described her father as the ‘perfect gentleman’, who had a ‘wicked sense of humour’.
First VW van brought to Britain
Lesbian lover ‘told mum to kill her evil daughter’ by emily pennink
A MOTHER was persuaded to kill her ‘evil’ daughter by her lesbian lover, a court has heard. Polly Chowdhury was controlled and seduced by Kiki Muddar, who created fictional characters on Facebook to turn her against eight-year-old Ayesha Ali, jurors were told. Muddar – who is also accused of murder – devised characters Jimmy Chowdhury and Skyman, who sent
Trial: Polly Chowdhury is accused of killing eight-yearold Ayesha picture: National
texts to Chowdhury telling her ‘your daughter will pay’, and claiming that the child had ‘given her cancer’. The
court also heard Chowdhury had fallen in love with the fictitious Jimmy and believed she could have sex with him through the ‘medium of Kiki’. Ayesha died of a head wound at her home in Chadwell Heath, Essex, in August 2013. She had sustained more than 50 injuries in the hours before her death, including bites, carpet burns and bruises, a court heard. Muddar called 999 to report the death and said Chowdhury, 35, had tried to commit suicide. But messages
set to go for £75,000 at auction
Martin doesn’t know every mile of your journey. He knows every inch. Martin is a Route Information Specialist for First Great Western. If your train is even three minutes late, Martin will work with Network Rail to put special measures in place, doing everything he can to fast-track your service to get you back on schedule. Martin is part of an army of workers who, together with Network Rail, are dedicated to building a greater west. Learn how we’re improving your network at FirstGreatWestern.co.uk or talk to us @FGW.
BUILDING A GRE ATER WEST
Back to its best: The Samba Microbus has been fully restored to its 1955 glory Pictures: SWNS
One happy camper... by Aidan Radnedge
#GreaterWest For up-to-the-minute travel advice, visit FirstGreatWestern.co.uk
Retro: The immaculate interior has new bespoke upholstery and trim
THEY were the free-wheeling symbols of the 1960s and a big hit with hippies and families alike. Now, what is believed to be the first – and oldest – Volkswagen camper van in Britain is expected to fetch a far-out £75,000 at auction. The 1955 Type 2 Samba Microbus was owned by John Colborne-Barber, founder of the country’s first VW dealership. He had it fitted with a fridge and stove and used it for family holidays. But the van disappeared in the early 1960s – only to be rediscovered in 1992. The fully restored camper is to be sold at Silverstone Auction’s Race Retro Sale in Warwickshire next month. Nick Whale, the auction’s managing
Time for tea: The table and bench seats director, said: ‘These vehicles are hugely popular around the globe and collectors pay some incredible sums for them. ‘This is a beautiful and rare Samba Microbus, historically important in terms of its VW legacy in the UK. ‘I hope the new owner will love it just as much as the Colborne family did.’
sent between the pair showed Muddar’s long-running hatred for the child, said prosecutor Richard Whittam. ‘To say their relationship was unconventional is a gross understatement. It was complex and involved fictional characters.’ He said one or both were responsible for Ayesha’s fatal injuries. Chowdhury and Muddar, 43, of Ilford, Essex, deny charges of murder, manslaughter and causing or allowing the death of a child. The trial, at the Old Bailey, continues.
Chop down pigsty home, say planners A COUPLE who secretly turned a pigsty into a fourbedroom home have been ordered to tear it apart. They were told it must go back to its original use after they ‘deliberately concealed’ the conversion in the middle of the Norfolk Broads. It will be auctioned with a guide price of £20,000 after the unnamed pair failed to overturn a council ruling. ‘It can only be used as an agricultural building,’ said a Broads Authority spokesman.
Thursday, January 22, 2015 METRO 29
Song for a dying hero on his 100th birthday
My wedding to Bronson will go ahead BRITAIN’S most violent prisoner is still on course to marry behind bars. Charles Bronson’s fiancée Lorraine Etherington yesterday ‘categorically’ denied reports she had dumped the 62-year-old. She said armed robber Bronson – real name Michael Peterson – was ‘certainly not sat in Wakefield Prison nursing a broken heart’. The bride-to-be, in her 40s, founded the Charlie Bronson Appeal Fund in January 2011.
Farewell chorus: Sidney Doel with his late wife Kathleen Picture: SWNS
A WAR hero died on the day he reached 100, as his family gathered round singing Happy Birthday. Sidney Doel, who won medals for his courage during World War II, had invited loved ones, including some of his 14 great-grandchildren, to lunch to celebrate his centenary. But his relatives quickly realised he was unwell. They crowded round his bed at his Plymouth care home and sang as he slipped away. Son Eric Doel, 56, said: ‘The last thing that goes when people are dying is their hearing, so we sang Happy Birthday. It was the nicest way for dad to go.’ Sidney joined
by lydia willgress
the Army at 18 and won four medals for his wartime courage. After leaving the forces he got a job with British Rail. He met his future wife Kathleen outside a pub when he stopped to ask her the time. They wed in 1936 and were married for more than 60 years until her death 12 years ago. Shirley Kemp, one of four daughters, said: ‘He didn’t even get to see his card from the Queen.’ She described her father as the ‘perfect gentleman’, who had a ‘wicked sense of humour’.
First VW van brought to Britain
Lesbian lover ‘told mum to kill her evil daughter’ by emily pennink
A MOTHER was persuaded to kill her ‘evil’ daughter by her lesbian lover, a court has heard. Polly Chowdhury was controlled and seduced by Kiki Muddar, who created fictional characters on Facebook to turn her against eight-year-old Ayesha Ali, jurors were told. Muddar – who is also accused of murder – devised characters Jimmy Chowdhury and Skyman, who sent
Trial: Polly Chowdhury is accused of killing eight-yearold Ayesha picture: National
texts to Chowdhury telling her ‘your daughter will pay’, and claiming that the child had ‘given her cancer’. The
court also heard Chowdhury had fallen in love with the fictitious Jimmy and believed she could have sex with him through the ‘medium of Kiki’. Ayesha died of a head wound at her home in Chadwell Heath, Essex, in August 2013. She had sustained more than 50 injuries in the hours before her death, including bites, carpet burns and bruises, a court heard. Muddar called 999 to report the death and said Chowdhury, 35, had tried to commit suicide. But messages
set to go for £75,000 at auction
Martin doesn’t know every mile of your journey. He knows every inch. Martin is a Route Information Specialist for First Great Western. If your train is even three minutes late, Martin will work with Network Rail to put special measures in place, doing everything he can to fast-track your service to get you back on schedule. Martin is part of an army of workers who, together with Network Rail, are dedicated to building a greater west. Learn how we’re improving your network at FirstGreatWestern.co.uk or talk to us @FGW.
BUILDING A GRE ATER WEST
Back to its best: The Samba Microbus has been fully restored to its 1955 glory Pictures: SWNS
One happy camper... by Aidan Radnedge
#GreaterWest For up-to-the-minute travel advice, visit FirstGreatWestern.co.uk
Retro: The immaculate interior has new bespoke upholstery and trim
THEY were the free-wheeling symbols of the 1960s and a big hit with hippies and families alike. Now, what is believed to be the first – and oldest – Volkswagen camper van in Britain is expected to fetch a far-out £75,000 at auction. The 1955 Type 2 Samba Microbus was owned by John Colborne-Barber, founder of the country’s first VW dealership. He had it fitted with a fridge and stove and used it for family holidays. But the van disappeared in the early 1960s – only to be rediscovered in 1992. The fully restored camper is to be sold at Silverstone Auction’s Race Retro Sale in Warwickshire next month. Nick Whale, the auction’s managing
Time for tea: The table and bench seats director, said: ‘These vehicles are hugely popular around the globe and collectors pay some incredible sums for them. ‘This is a beautiful and rare Samba Microbus, historically important in terms of its VW legacy in the UK. ‘I hope the new owner will love it just as much as the Colborne family did.’
sent between the pair showed Muddar’s long-running hatred for the child, said prosecutor Richard Whittam. ‘To say their relationship was unconventional is a gross understatement. It was complex and involved fictional characters.’ He said one or both were responsible for Ayesha’s fatal injuries. Chowdhury and Muddar, 43, of Ilford, Essex, deny charges of murder, manslaughter and causing or allowing the death of a child. The trial, at the Old Bailey, continues.
Chop down pigsty home, say planners A COUPLE who secretly turned a pigsty into a fourbedroom home have been ordered to tear it apart. They were told it must go back to its original use after they ‘deliberately concealed’ the conversion in the middle of the Norfolk Broads. It will be auctioned with a guide price of £20,000 after the unnamed pair failed to overturn a council ruling. ‘It can only be used as an agricultural building,’ said a Broads Authority spokesman.
