3 h. ago John Lennon’s school desk goes on display at Beatles Museum in Liverpool

Desk from Quarry Bank high school had been hidden by staff as teachers had considered Lennon a ‘nuisance’A desk used by John Lennon has gone on display after being found in the attic of his former school, where teachers had not wanted to remember the musician because he was a “nuisance”.Lennon attended Quarry Bank high school in Liverpool between 1952 and 1957, and the name of the Quarrymen, the band that would become the Beatles in their formative years, was inspired by the school’s name. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Devastated family's warning after dad, 40, dies on Jet2 flight next to his sons

Chris Neill, 40, was travelling with his sons Reece, 20, and Archie, nine, when he fell ill on the Jet2 flight from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to Burgas on Monday, September 16, 2024

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37 h. ago Man, 40, dies suddenly on Jet2 flight to Bulgaria as dad issues stark warning

Chris Neill, 40, was travelling with sons Reece, 20, and Archie, nine, when he fell ill on the flight from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to Burgas on Monday, September 16, 2024

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3 d. ago School is going 'terribly' but I'll be back at my desk on Wednesday even if I do become the youngest

The 15-year-old Adolescence star has been given a week off by teachers at his Warrington secondary school so he can jet to Hollywood for the big night.

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7 d. ago Jared Harris: ‘Dad knocked out an Irishman then brought him round by throwing Guinness in his face’

Ahead of his new film Brave the Dark, the star of Mad Men and The Terror (and the son of Richard Harris) answers your questions about his favourite pub, feeling seasick in Hamlet and playing John LennonYou seem to have a predilection to play real-life characters who die prematurely. Who would you like to play who lives to old age? NeilHVWell, I don’t know if that’s true. Captain Crozier [from The Terror] didn’t die, and Lane Pryce [from Mad Men] wasn’t real. I would love to play [the 19th-century US president] Ulysses S Grant. His history has largely been written by southern US historians and so his achievements have largely been denigrated. But his campaigns are taught in all the military academies around the world. Despite a pretty disastrous presidency, he still managed to [sign a] Civil Rights Act – and he destroyed the Ku Klux Klan.When the civil war broke out he sold firewood by the side of the road to try to put food on the table for his family. Eight years later, he was pres...

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1 week ago AD FEATURE: Win a fantastic holiday package worth £1,750 with 'the North's best airport'

Liverpool John Lennon Airport has been rated in the UK's top two by Which? for the third year running

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2 w. ago Three Days in June by Anne Tyler audiobook review – a masterclass in marital disharmony

A mother reflects on the breakdown of her marriage as she attends her daughter’s wedding, in a novella that brilliantly depicts family dynamicsAt the start of Three Days in June, Gail Baines, a 61-year-old teacher, has a meeting with her school head, who informs her she is about to retire. Gail assumes she is next in line for the job, but the head tells her she doesn’t have the people skills and asks if she has considered retirement herself. Affronted, she walks out of the school and from her job without collecting the photo on her desk of her daughter, Debbie, who is about to get married. After Gail gets home, her ex-husband, Max, arrives. He is staying with her for the wedding weekend and tells her he has forgotten to bring a suit – although he has brought a cat. Not for the first time, Gail wonders “why it was that I had so many irritating people in my life”.Set in Baltimore, Anne Tyler’s novella spans the before, during and after of Debbie’s wedding. Told through Gail’...

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2 w. ago Rare photos of Beatles taken by Paul McCartney on display in London

Rare photos of Beatles taken by Paul McCartney on display in London  CBS News

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3 w. ago Paul McCartney uses AI to 'extricate' John Lennon's voice from two more old demos

New AI mixes of two songs originally demoed on piano by John Lennon are set to be released on a new Beatles compilation.

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3 w. ago John Lennon once spotted a 'UFO' while naked – here is what The Beatles legend saw

The Beatles and music legend John Lennon was apparently starkers when he had an unusual encounter as his nude smoke break on his balcony was interrupted on a hot summer day

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4 w. ago The Donald holds court: Photo of European leaders gathered around Trump's desk 'like obedient school children' that sums up Ukraine summit

In the picture, which has gone viral on social media, critics have said EU leaders were made to look like school children while sitting and listening attentively to the US president.

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