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The Interview: Pattie Boyd, photographer, model and muse of George Harrison and Eric Clapton Sarfraz Manzoor July 24 2016, 12:01am,  The Sunday Times “I married George in a Mary Quant red fox-fur coat. Paul McCartney was the best man” In 1967, a coffee-table book was published called Birds of Britain. It contained a collection of photographs of women who the photographer John D Green considered epitomised the Swinging Sixties. “Resplendent!” is how Anthony Haden-Guest described them in his introduction. “Sauntering, strolling, sitting, driving around the chosen streets and squares of central London ... warm vortices of flesh, supercool in sunglasses and flaming in a rag-bag kaleidoscope of stuffs and styles.” Among the women were Marianne Faithfull, Charlotte Rampling, Dusty Springfield and Julie Christie, but featured on the book’s cover was Pattie Boyd, the original It Girl and model, who was married to George Harrison at the time. Boyd was the subject ...

UK Frankie Boyle Describes Theresa May’s Cabinet As ‘The Most Right Wing In Modern History’ ‘Theresa May is our second Prime Minister with the outer carapace of a human female’ Sara C Nelson Senior Editor, The Huffington Post UK Frankie Boyle  has trained his sights on  Prime Minister Theresa May ’s new cabinet in a column for the Guardian… which you can’t actually read in the Guardian. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Boyle said the column had been pulled at the last minute because of a single word, on the grounds of taste. Publishing it in full on his page, the comedian’s observations of May so far are that she is a “vehemently pro-corporate Tory who is probably well to the right of her own traditional right-wing, and this is possibly the most right wing cabinet in modern history.” DAVE J HOGAN VIA GETTY IMAGES Frankie Boyle has warned  Theresa May ’s cabinet is the ‘most right wing in modern history’ ...

HOW TO ADJUST TO LIFE WHEN YOU'RE IRISH IN THE UK So you've made the hop across the Irish Sea to the UK? You're not alone. There are over 600,000 people living in the UK who were born in Ireland - and it's estimated that over 6 million people in the UK have at least one Irish grandparent. Yep, that's 10% of the population. Whether you came for work, University or just for a visit - here's our one stop guide to the things no-one warned you about life in the UK: The booze Let's be clear - the Brits just don't do drinking properly. Their shots are only 25ml, their Guinness just doesn't come close - and get ready to spend hours waiting at the bar. They're just not the trained professionals that you know and love in Irish bars. What kind of amateur can't handle a few orders at the same time? UK? Great Britain? England? The Brits themselves aren't even sure. And now y...

20 Photos of the Kings Road on a Hot August Day in 1976. Take a stroll down the Kings Road on an August day during the long hot summer of 1976 .

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Lover ‘killed rival with demonic savagery’ A businesswoman was incapacitated with a stun gun before being stabbed 40 times with “demonic savagery” by a love rival in a murder that was plotted for more than a year, a court was told. The body of Sadie Hartley, 60, was found in a pool of blood in the hallway of her cottage in the village of Helmshore, Lancashire, in January this year. July 6 2016,  The Times Sadie Hartley was attacked with a stun gun before being stabbed 40 times at the cottage in Lancashire that she shared with Ian Johnston A businesswoman was incapacitated with a stun gun before being stabbed 40 times with “demonic savagery” by a love rival in a murder that was plotted for more than a year, a court was told. The body of Sadie Hartley, 60, was found in a pool of blood in the hallway of her cottage in the village of Helmshore, Lancashire, in January this year. Sarah Williams, 35, “ruthlessly and methodically” stalked Ms Hartley, her ex-boyfriend’s new partne...