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Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, defender of his grandfather Stanley s political reputation and advocate of complementary medicine – obituary
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Died: March 30, 2021 MYRA Frances, who has died of cancer aged 78, was an actress who became a taboo-busting pioneer when she shared British television’s first romantic kiss between women. That was in Girl (1974), James Robson’s play for BBC Birmingham’s Second City Firsts series of short standalone dramas by relatively new writers. Frances played Christine Harvey, the seemingly stern army corporal who appears opposite Alison Steadman’s discharged pregnant squaddie, Jackie. As Jackie prepares to leave, the pair’s illicit tryst is revealed in a serious study of the effects their brief relationship has had on both of them amid the double lives they each lead. As the two women are left alone together, the scene builds towards a bittersweet reckoning, played out to the strains of Dusty Springfield’s hit version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s song, This Girl’s in Love With You. “Top of the gay girls’ hit parade”, as Frances’s character puts it.
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Once a year, I went to see the Queen with my friend
Helen Smeed. Helen, who has died aged 77 from a heart attack, was a long-time parliamentary researcher and personal assistant in the House of Lords. We would wait across the street from the Sovereign’s Entrance during the state opening of parliament and watch the resplendent horse-drawn carriages arrive. Afterwards, during lunch in the Lords’ canteen, Helen would always show her appreciation to the people who made parliament work, from cooks to policemen. She believed in public service.
Helen and I met when we were neighbours on Buckingham Street, behind the Strand in London, during the 1990s. She rented out her spare room to dancers from the Royal Ballet. She had taken up pilates in 1970, as one of the first students of pilates in the UK, under Alan Herdman, and continued practising throughout her life. She spent many years at the charity Mencap in a number of roles, finally as pers
Beware the actoplasm! Spoof thespian Nicholas Craig returns
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