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Junor, Penny; The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor, Bertrams Print On Demand, 2009 [2005]. ISBN 9780007326464. Gillon, Steven M. (July 7, 2020). America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr. Dutton. pp.148–149. ISBN 978-1524742409. Junor's first book on Diana was published in 1998. But what's odd about her career is that she had zero "passion" or even "interest" in the royals. She was already a successful journalist, columnist and television presenter, and only took on Diana because she was rung up and asked. After it was published, "I thought 'never again'." There are 20 carols in the service – nine lessons and two carols after each lesson, and one at the beginning and one at the end – and I choose them. I start with a blank piece of paper, and add a template of the spoken parts of the service. I sketch in the points where we will have music and then put in the givens – Once in Royal David’s City is a given to start with, because the service has begun with that every year bar the first, in 1918. And we always finish with O, Come All Ye Faithful and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. I always have a newly commissioned carol, and I’ll know in good time the text the composer is going to set so I can place that appropriately. This year, Judith Weir has set a poem by Charles Wesley that is largely about the three wise men, which places it after the eighth lesson. There has to be a judicious mix of old and new – I put in some that don’t appear every year, and as I build up the list I try to be mindful of how it will work as a sequence – we don’t want four slow carols in a row. I try to think of it like a composer – getting a good musical sequence of tempo and key – and hopefully I can include one or two novelties. This year being the 100th anniversary, I have included half a dozen carols that were sung in 1918, and arrangements by everyone who has ever directed the choir. John Junor, Listening for a Midnight Tram: Memoirs (London: Chapmans, 1990), pp. 3-4. ISBN 185592501X

Amid pressure to unmask the MP behind the claims, a source close to the whips said: “Questions are being asked around the palace and if the anonymous source is identified, action will be taken.” However, their action appears to stop short of a formal investigation. Junor could be brutally forthright in his column. In 1984 he wrote: "[W]ith compatriots like these [the IRA Brighton bombers] wouldn't you rather admit to being a pig than be Irish?" Following complaints that the comment was racist, Junor was censured by the Press Council in May 1985. [9] Penny's conclusion is that the job and the power that went with it destroyed the man, turning him into a monster who left numerous victims. He had, as she insists, many qualities. In Fleet Street, he is largely remembered with real affection and, in some cases, love. His column, which established the otherwise unremarkable Fife village of Auchtermuchty as the touchstone of reason, was much imitated. If he was faithless to his wife, he was intensely loyal to his staff, though he dumped friends who crossed him.As both the Leveson and the Filkin inquiries have found, some newspapers were favoured over others in terms of stories made available by the Met police. No surprise there, perhaps, that papers seen as uncritically pro-police should be rewarded with special favours, while those seen as sceptical or hostile should be kept at arm's length. Now we have learned from the Leveson inquiry that a different form of "mutual advantage" came into play over the last decade or so, with the Metropolitan Police and News International intertwined far too closely. Daily News' iconic photo of JFK Jr.'s salute to dad's coffin still haunts". Daily News. New York. November 17, 2013. The Prime Minister’s statement that the vote on the privileges committee’s report into Boris Johnson is a matter for Parliament is true as far as it goes. Technically, all three line whips are for attendance rather than the substance of the vote, but the reality has long been different. The government of the day is only in office because it has a majority in the Commons so it determines the business. That there will be a debate on Monday was a decision of the Government and it is legitimate to whip on committee reports. It has been done before.

Relations between the police and the media have always been fraught. That is how it should be. The dangers of too close a relationship are obvious. Yet just as Dominic Carman was savaged by legal and journalistic cronies of his father because his memoir revealed the clandestine cruelty of ''the great George Carman QC'', so Junor is in the firing line of JJ loyalists for exposing his Jekyll and Hyde nature, the raging domestic viciousness behind a monumental career of instinctive genius, wit, and charm. ''And, yes, there was kindness. When he was being nice he was wonderful, the most stimulating companion, and although I was frightened of him I was also hugely proud of him.'' Sir John Donald Brown Junor (15 January 1919 – 3 May 1997) was a Scottish journalist and editor-in-chief of the Sunday Express between 1954 and 1986, [1] having previously worked as a columnist there. [2] He then moved in 1989 to The Mail on Sunday, where he remained until his death. Seely, Katherine (July 19, 1999). "John F. Kennedy Jr., Heir to a Formidable Dynasty". The New York Times . Retrieved November 8, 2009.

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Junor, Penny; All The Queen's Corgis: Corgis, Dorgis and Gundogs: The Story of Elizabeth II and Her Most Faithful Companions, Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. ISBN 9781473686755.

I bought this business in 2010. I had reached a midlife crisis. I had been a finance manager at a fibre-optic company and doing an MBA when I thought: “If I can manage someone else’s company, why can’t I manage my own?” I didn’t have a particular passion, so I started looking for a business, and this came along, and I thought: “Wow.” More and more people are looking for toys that have some longevity’ … Jennifer Murray. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian The toymaker In 1988, the Quakers held an event to discuss attitudes towards homosexuality, which several people from the Lancaster LGBTQ+ community attended. The Friends Meeting House now holds meetings for commitment and celebration for civil partnership ceremonies. We were young radicals challenging homophobia, sexism, racism, fascism and capitalism our house became a political hub for meetings to organise activist activities and interventions. A founder member of the West Road Gay Collective Our thinking starts with windows, and a theme for our main stores in Newcastle and Bond Street in London. We think about how those windows can tell our story. For the biggest stores, we work with a team of production artists in Berlin. Each of the stores has the same theme, but the window displays have to be adapted. The differences are dependent on the size of the window, the age of the shop and the bias of the store – maybe it is good at childrenswear, maybe it is known for womenswear.In the 1970s, the Plough pub opened as a refuge for women and their children escaping domestic violence. A group of feminists and lesbians set up the refuge, and volunteers and paid workers ran it. It was linked to the national Women’s Aid organisation, the national coordinating group for the feminist-initiated refuges. The Plough later functioned as a women-only information and meeting space. Early discussions for Greenham Common women’s peace camp took place there, in the early 1980s. Like who? "Princess Anne." Throughout a five-day trip to Uzbekistan, she continues, Princess Anne didn't utter a word to her, even though they went to school together (Benenden). This affirmation service was developed especially for a young man who had transitioned from female to male, so he could renew his baptismal vows with his new name. The service meant a lot. There were switchboards in larger towns, but there were large parts of the country that weren’t covered. We did get people calling from quite remote places – Southern Lakes is an obvious example… who felt they had nobody else to talk to. Alistair, a volunteer at the Lancaster Gay Switchboard From his childhood years at the White House, Kennedy was the subject of much media scrutiny, and later became a popular social figure in Manhattan. Trained as a lawyer, he worked as a New York City assistant district attorney for almost four years. In 1995, he launched George magazine, using his political and celebrity status to publicize it. He died in a plane crash in 1999 at the age of 38.

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