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Cilla Black remains the biggest selling British female singer of all time.

Not bad for a girl who started off checking in coats at The Cavern Club.
 

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Should have stuck to doing that, her voice was like fingernails on a blackboard.
I used to think that but have grown to appreciate her in recent years.
Take a look at Anyone Who Had a Heart on YouTube, black and white job. No miming (or ‘lip syncing’ as it seems to be called today for reasons beyond me) needed.

a golden age for female Brit warblers…Sandy Shaw, Petula Clark, Lulu (my favourite) and a few others
 

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Lee was involved in some very sneaky beaky stuff during WW2. He was also the only member of the casts of the various Lord of the Rings movies and Star Wars movies that he starred in who could fence. He did virtually all of his own fencing stunts in the Star Wars movies.
 

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Lee was involved in some very sneaky beaky stuff during WW2. He was also the only member of the casts of the various Lord of the Rings movies and Star Wars movies that he starred in who could fence. He did virtually all of his own fencing stunts in the Star Wars movies.
I can fence.

Did a lovely arris rail job last week.
 

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It is estimated that time spent sitting on the toilet has increased by 37% since smart phones became widely used in the uk.
 

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‘Brain freeze’ such as can be experienced when eating ice cream has the medical term sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
 
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