2 w. ago Confused Beatles fans keep ending up at the wrong Abbey Road on tourist trips

Baffled tourists desperate for a photo on the famous Abbey Road zebra crossing are pitching up at a train station 10 miles away - and the Day Trippers are being left very disappointed

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3 w. ago Sir Paul McCartney in tree row with neighbour over plan to chop down sycamores at London home

Beatles legend wants to fell two protected trees at £10m North London home but wealthy investor raises objections

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3 w. ago Paul McCartney locked in bitter row with neighbour over plan to cut down protected trees in garden at London home

Paul McCartney locked in bitter row with neighbour over plan to cut down protected trees in garden at London home  The Sun

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3 w. ago Cut back to where you once belonged: Sir Paul McCartney faces planning row challenge by neighbour to let trees be at London home around the corner from Abbey Road

The Beatles star, 83, has lodged an application with his local council to topple two Sycamore trees in the garden of his £10m townhouse in St John's Wood.

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3 w. ago Paul McCartney in row with neighbour over plans to fell protected trees

Paul McCartney in row with neighbour over plans to fell protected trees  The Telegraph

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3 w. ago Chris Rea’s Driving Home for Christmas is an evergreen, everyman anthem that captures the season’s true spirit

By rejecting the bombast of 80s pop, the late singer-songwriter’s track has endured, and thereby perfectly captures the nostalgic feelings at the heart of Christmas• Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74• Chris Rea – a life in picturesBritain isn’t a great island for road songs. It’s not big enough, really, for you to hit the road and drive. And if you try, you may just end up stuck in traffic on the A1, where the late Chris Rea found himself in Christmas 1978, his wife behind the wheel of her Mini, he beside her as they tried to get from Abbey Road Studios in London to their home in Middlesbrough, 220 miles away.He wrote the song on a whim, scribbling down the lyrics whenever passing headlights illuminated the car interior (as he told this paper’s Dave Simpson in 2016), then put it away with his other unfinished scraps when he got home. Eight years later, he paired his lyric with some jazzy chords he’d written and a song was born. At first, he shoved it on a B-s...

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