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He was the love of her life, her Prince Charming and staunchest ally, the dashing naval officer who sacrificed his own career and often, his manly pride so he could walk two paces behind and serve his Queen for more than seven decades.
The longest-serving royal consort in history, the Duke of Edinburgh died Friday morning at the age of 99, just four years into retirement after only giving up his day job in 2017. A workaholic of astounding stamina, he’d carried out more than 22,219 solo engagements and more than 630 solo visits overseas.
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David Thurlow, one of the longest-serving and most respected Daily Express reporters, has died at the age of 88.
He was in hospital recovering from surgery to pin a broken hip when he contracted Covid. His wife, Jeanne and children were allowed to be with him during his last 48 hours.
Born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in February, 1932, David’s 40-year career in journalism started on the Leicester Evening Mail then followed the Welwyn Times, the Northern Echo, the Yorkshire Evening News, the Daily Herald, Daily Mirror, Anglia Television, the Daily Express for 26 years and finally The Times.
David was immensely proud of his time on the Express as area man for East Anglia and later based in Southampton, covering some of the biggest stories of the day, including the hunt for the Cambridge rapist and the trial of Jeremy Bamber for the murder of his family.
In 2020, over 155 million people listened to a podcast every week. And whatever your niche interest, whether it s food history or wild swimming, there s a show to match it, most likely hosted by an expert enthusiast in that area. The book world is no exception. Authors Elizabeth Day, Gillian McAllister and Daisy Buchanan all host very popular and much downloaded podcasts. So, what s in it for them?
Caroline O Donoghue, author of two novels for adults and a YA novel, All Our Hidden Gifts (out with Walker Books in February), gets approximately 30,000 downloads per month on her podcast, Sentimental Garbage, which started in 2018 and deep dives into commercial women s fiction classics of the past.