Marjorie Orr featuring: Astrology of Today’s News

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Ratan Tata, a much revered and respected Indian businessman and philanthropist, who turned his family’s Tata Group into a global player, and invested heavily in British industry – Land Rover and British Steel – has died. He was a major figure in the international business community, close to US politicians as well as the Indian … Read more

Angela Rippon, one of UK TV’s best known faces who broke through several glass ceilings early in a long and illustrious career by becoming a BBC female news reader and presenting Top Gear for petrolheads has been celebrating her 80th birthday in style.  A BBC4 programme at the weekend marked her extraordinary career over the … Read more

Alex Salmond, a towering figure in UK politics who very nearly split apart four hundred years of a union between Scotland and England, has died. Whatever his detractors said he was a great orator and a shrewd politician whose rallying cry was ‘Scotland is a country not a county’. His reputation in recent years was … Read more

Two Jewish writers who used words to make sense of their war-time experiences have died.  Lore Segal, 29 December 1923, Austria, was one of the lucky 10,000 children selected for Kindertransport, in 1938, a humanitarian initiative to foster endangered Jewish children in Nazi territories into British homes. She was later reunited with her parents. She … Read more

With less than a month to go, here is a reprise of what has gone before with, I fear, no more clarity. What the astrology shows is a description of the individual’s reactions from which can be extrapolated a reasonable assumption of a win or loss – though not with 100% certainty.   Both Trump … Read more

Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert, has died. She was by his side when he was shot in 1968 and six months later gave birth to their 11th child. Her life ‘veered between exuberance and tragedy’ and was a mass of contradictions. Both her parents, who were alcoholics, died in one plane crash, her brother in … Read more

Hurricane Milton made landfall as a Category 3 storms at 8.30pm last night with Pluto close to the Midheaven in Sarasota, Florida and tore through the state bringing tornadoes, floods, and the risk of storm surges. More than three million homes and businesses are without power, and there have been “a number of deaths” reported … Read more

The Brighton bombing on 12 October 1984 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), an attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and other members of the British government,  at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, is marked by a well-reviewed BBC documentary. In the event five people were killed and 30 injured. Thatcher was uninjured and  decided … Read more

A riotous bonkbuster and a splash of retro-escapism to the 1980s before political correctness set in is the entertainment in the long awaited TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals.  ‘Everyone commits adultery and smokes like a chimney. They hunt and shoot. People tell off-colour jokes and nobody pulls them up on it with a po-faced … Read more