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Denis Kilcommons: How the other half live

1 TAMARA ECCLESTONE (pictured), daughter of billionaire Bernie, the Formula One chief, lives in a £2m mansion that he bought her. Oh yes, he also gives her £100,000 a year. Which is nice.Read

Denis Kilcommons: Another Yorkshire joke

ANOTHER Yorkshire joke. This one about the young couple who wanted to buy an old rectory in the Dales.Read

Denis Kilcommons: Biggest celebration of St Patrick’s Day

THE river in Chicago will be green this week. Americans will be celebrating St Patrick’s Day harder than anywhere else in the world.Read

Denis: Skills of the Big Mac

THE last time I mentioned McDonald’s I got a strange letter suggesting my political leanings must be close to those of international war criminal Pol Pot.Read

Deniss: I’ve spend just an hour in another world

I’VE just spent the last hour in an alternative world. And no, I haven’t been at the Valium or the Tetley bitter.Read

Denis: Lottery winner

EXCITING news, the email said. Your Euro lottery ticket is a winner!Read

Denis: Women who have a new wardrobe sale or return plan

THERE are ladies in America who make a career of returning clothes they buy from stores after wearing them only once.Read

Denis: Could this be your grandad?

HAS anybody lost a grandad? Or a great-grandad, come to that.Read

Denis: Man’s talk that could put me on the couch

COLLEAGUE Hazel Etienne sent me the following set of Man Rules. I don’t know why they amused her; they sound perfectly reasonable to me. Here's a shortened version:Read

Denis: Ouija is a load of baloney

I MENTIONED a ouija board the other day.Read

Denis: Iconic adverts we can’t forget

THERE we were, standing round the bar talking about old television adverts, like you do.Read

Denis: Heard the one about Yorkshire?

PETE Foster was amused by the recent spate of Yorkshire jokes that readers have been submitting.Read

Denis: Recycling on the Olympic scale

THAT voyage of discovery I undertook, trying to discover maritime connections with the board rooms of Colne Valley mills, produced a lot of fascinating facts.Read

Denis: What’s the problem?

THERE is a bit of a to-do about closing down 6Music, a radio station on the BBC.Read

Denis: How to buy a spirit in a bottle

YOU can buy just about anything on the internet.Read

Denis: Britney and an egg sandwich

IF you think selling ghosts is daft, items just as bizarre have been sold on the internet before.Read

Denis: Store idea divorced from reality

TOP store Debenhams has launched a divorce list.Read

Denis: Too much overseas aid

ONE of the funniest newspaper cartoons I have seen recently was that of a bloke taking a street poll and asking a man passing by: “If there were an election tomorrow – how would you spoil your ballot paper?”Read

Denis: Your direct line to the Lord

CATHOLICS in France can now pick up the telephone and, for 31p per minute, confess their sins.Read

Denis: Tyke route to domestic bliss

I KEEP getting sent Yorkshire gags. Here's one from Phil Gale of Emley.Read