RIP Penelope Keith, surely among the greatest comic actresses of the 70s-80s.
I may shed a manly tear, though, as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton herself put it, 'I don't usually cry, it's only since we joined the Common Market that I've picked up these ghastly continental habits'
This is Jeanne Calment, who sold her house at the age of 90 to her lawyer M. Raffray. Under the contract, she could live in the house until she died and receive 2,500 Francs per month from him. Jeanne went on to live to 122 years of age outliving M Raffray. She stopped smoking at 117.
Labour MPs posing as gay rights warriors like they're Fred Sargeant online when they're literally going to criminalise a parent who says to their child "you're just gay, perfect as you are, you don't need puberty blockers" is proper doing my head in today.