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Five minutes with Patsy Kensit May 26 2012

You’re promoting Birds Eye peas again. What do you remember about being the face of the TV ads 40 years ago?Read

John: Frank Sinatra and me, just good friends Mar 29 2012

THIS, I’m sad to say, is my last column for the Examiner.Read

John: I told you it was so Mar 29 2012

ONE of the things I plan to do in retirement is see if I can resurrect the several books of fiction I have researched or part-written or had rejected.Read

John Avison: The Asbo culture Mar 22 2012

I REMEMBER thinking when Asbos – Anti-social Behaviour Orders – were introduced in 1998 that the yobs were going to laugh them away.Read

John Avison: Waste high Mar 22 2012

“WHAT would you like for your birthday, Dad?”Read

John Avison: The wonder of I-Spy books revisited Mar 15 2012

INSIGNIFICANT events in childhood can have seismic effects on the direction of one’s life.Read

John Avison: No party politics for councillors Mar 15 2012

I WISH I could say that I always leave writing about politics to those who know.Read

John Avison: Moving pictures from the 6d seats Mar 08 2012

IT seems to me in the wake of this year’s Oscars ceremony that the film industry has never been healthier.Read

John Avison: Yorkshire lady lost on the Tube Mar 08 2012

AUSTIN Holroyd was a regular, reliable, endearing correspondent to several Examiner departments. He died only last year and is sorely missed.Read

John Avison: Vandal has a message for Huddersfield Mar 01 2012

IT’S not very likely the strange person who sprayed his ‘tag’ on the top floor wall of the Co-op building at the end of New Street was making a point.Read

John Avison: The right pay for the job Mar 01 2012

WHAT did the Occupy London people hope to achieve? Did they, during their five-month non-violent siege of St Paul’s Cathedral, achieve it?Read

John Avison: Night at the flicks Feb 23 2012

IT appears there are two phrases without which no American film – and I am tempted to include American TV series – would be complete.Read

John Avison: It’s just my luck Feb 23 2012

EVERYBODY who buys a Lotto or Euromillions ticket knows that the odds of winning are pretty slim.Read

John: Bigger isn’t really better Feb 16 2012

I DETECT deep discomfort over big things. Big things have a tendency to get bigger. And we don’t seem to be able to stop them.Read

John Avison: Behind bars Feb 16 2012

I HAVE argued until I’m blue in the face that unless prison is used solely to keep nasty people away from nice people, it’s a waste of time.Read

John Avison: My advice is careering off Feb 09 2012

JUST before we start, I’d like to ask your advice: would you write ‘adviser’ or advisor’? Both are correct.Read

John Avison: Bonus balls Feb 09 2012

THE Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive officer Stephen Hester yesterday went on Radio Four to explain why he turned down his monster bonus.Read

John Avison: What a waste Feb 02 2012

MY morning constitutional takes me across a large tarmac car park next to woodland.Read

John: Battles with a conscience Feb 02 2012

WAR, much as we might say we abhor it, continues to fascinate.Read

John Avison: We are now recording artistes! Jan 26 2012

WE are recording artistes. This is not the royal ‘we’. This is Pete and me. You remember? The infamous band Jam To-morrow? No? Thought not.Read

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