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| Death
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Viceroy |
| Lord Mountbatten went on a boat trip with his family in Ireland on August 27, 1979. He never returned — a bomb planted by the IRA blew up the boat. Three others died with him — his grandson Nicholas, his daughter’s mother-in-law, the dowager Lady Brabourne, and a local teenager, Paul Maxwell. Three people survived — Mountbatten’s daughter, son-in-law and grandson, Timothy, Nicholas’s twin. Timothy Knatchbull put the events together in a book 30 years later. An extract. |
| We drove into the village, turned into the harbour and proceeded carefully along the harbour wall. ‘Shadow V’ was on the outside of ‘Celtic Dawn’, Rodney Lomax’s black fishing boat. Because the tide was low, we had to climb d... |
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| Ear today, gone tomorrow |
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| Weight and and watch |
| The back was so stunning — and bare — that the Shiv Sena felt it needed to lodge a protest. Bal Thackeray’s boys ripped
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| Amitabh’s autumn songs |
| celebrity
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| Every time a film of his tanks, I am asked three questions. Is this the end of Amitabh Bachchan? Why does he do such ridic
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