The Steeple Times

Tag: 2014

  • Lettice Rowbotham

    Lettice Rowbotham

    Lettice RowbothamThis Surrey based violinist and Britain’s Got Talent contestant has been described as “a mixture of the Duchess of York and Patsy from Ab Fab”. Lettice Rowbotham has played for Prince Charles, President Vladimir Putin and at Harvey Weinstein’s 2014 post-BAFTA party and of meeting Oprah Winfrey commented: “No, I didn’t know who she was. She’s quite well-known, isn’t she?” The daughter of an artist named Sheree Valentine Daines, here is a young lady who is amusing, down to earth and a hard worker. After wowing Simon Cowell and his fellow judges, in an April 2014 interview she told The Daily Mail’s Jenny Johnston that her “life would be complete” if she could marry a man named Jeffrey Leaf. A definite rising star.

     

  • The brilliance of Bob

    The brilliance of Bob

    Bob Hoskins: A gent who passed before his time

     

    Suffolk born actor Bob Hoskins started his career as a circus worker, fruit packer and camel herder but rose to become one of Britain’s best loved actors. (more…)

  • Max’s smalls

    Max’s smalls

    There’s nothing worse than being Max Clifford

     

    ‘Grubby publicist’ has been the description that has been attached to Max Clifford for many years but with his conviction yesterday on eight counts of indecent assault, that can now be replaced by ‘sexual abuser’, ‘liar’ and most tellingly ‘the man with the small penis’. (more…)

  • Dot.dollar

    Dot.dollar

    Two-letter web address sells for $3.6 million (£2.1 million)

     

    It’s barely news now when a social media website sells for a billion dollars, but news that a web address has changed hands for $3.6 million (£2.1 million) is quite extraordinary. (more…)

  • Tim Walker

    Tim Walker

    Tim WalkerThe Telegraph’s ‘Mandrake’ columnist is a man not afraid to take on the establishment. Together with his now former colleague Richard Eden, Walker’s diary extensively featured stories about the charitable activities of Lady Meyer in 2011 and made a fool of the PR for Mastercard after they told him what he was to tweet in exchange for tickets to the Brit awards in February 2014. Walker also finds time to write theatre critiques and occasionally makes it onto the stage himself also. In Spamalot, this talented journalist played God and of Gillian Duffy, he once tweeted: “What I loved about Gillian Duffy – & this country – is that an OAP on her way to get a loaf of bread can bring down a PM”. Here is a remarkable man whose column is on our list of “must reads”.

     

  • Gloria Minghella MBE (AKA “the Queen Mum of the Isle of Wight”, 1930 – 2014)

    Gloria Minghella MBE (AKA “the Queen Mum of the Isle of Wight”, 1930 – 2014)

    Gloria MinghellaThe mother of the Academy Award winning film director Anthony Minghella CBE (1954 – 2008) was a matriarch who lived by the philosophy: “You put in what you can, no matter how little that is, you don’t know how far the ripples will go”. Dedicated to community service and charity, Minghella herself was famous for introducing exotic flavours of ice cream to the Isle of Wight and even named one “Ripley’s Downfall” in honour of her son’s masterpiece The Talented Mr Ripley.

     

  • From the ashes

    From the ashes

    One of England’s finest estates comes to the market for £25 to £30 million

     

    The scene of the tragic deaths of the Conservative MP Michael Colvin and his wife Nicola in 2000 in a fire, Tangley House, near Andover in Hampshire subsequently had to be demolished. A new house was constructed on the site in 2005 by a property developer named Harry Marriott and now he’s put it on the market complete with 505 acres of land (more…)

  • Footing the castle

    Footing the castle

    Own a castle (for just twenty years) for £850,000

     

    Trematon Castle near Saltash in Cornwall is a house that I stayed in about ten years ago when it belonged to a friend of mine’s family. It was sold subsequently and now it is on the market once again. (more…)

  • Justice for Evans

    Justice for Evans

    Nigel Evans MP cleared of all charges brought against him

     

    Today, justice has been done: Nigel Evans, a friend, contributor to The Steeple Times and a fine Member of Parliament, has been cleared of sexual offences against seven men. (more…)

  • An average penthouse

    An average penthouse

    Renting a Knightsbridge penthouse for a month will cost as much as the purchase price of an average UK house

     

    In February, the Office for National Statistics revealed that the average UK house price has hit £250,000 for the first time. For just a little shy of that figure, a super-elite renter could take a Knightsbridge penthouse for a month. (more…)