Anne Hailes Today

Calling all Grannies.  Do you share your cooking and baking skills with your grandchildren? Calling all children.  Do you share your granny’s cooking and baking […]

It’s something when BBC security correspondent Andrew Gardner refuses to reply ‘good morning’ before his interview this morning because it’s not a good morning, as […]

I watched Scoop, the television dramatisation of the Prince Andrew affair. Although a lot of the film was about setting up the meeting, the newsroom […]

John Anderson was a man of music to his fingertips, he taught in Methodist College before taking a chance on entertaining the world of theatre […]

Ottilie Patterson just won ‘t fade away. This exceptional jazz singer from Comber took the world by storm when she joined the Chris Barber band […]

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY DROWN YOUR SHAMROCK WITH ENTHUSIASM There was a lovely celebration last week, just one event to mark the 250th year of […]

Mothering Sunday – breakfast in bed maybe, a big bunch of flowers, a loving hug, a card, a beetle broach, a text from a far […]

When I was about ten, because my brother was locked away in the Fever Hospital as he had scarlet fever, the rest of the family […]

What a week, something for everyone from naked men to a moon shot, pantomime in the Commons to the horror death of Alexei Navalny in […]

Calling former staff, customers, guests and friends of the Londonderry Arms Hotel in Carnlough Co. Antrim.  Sadly this landmark hotel is on the market after […]