Britain's much-loved actress Dame Thora Hird was cremated yesterday at a private funeral in Chichester, West Sussex. The service, which began at 11am and lasted just under half an hour ...

Dame Thora Hird, one of Britain's best-loved actresses, died on Saturday. She was 91. Dame Thora suffered a stroke last weekend and had been staying at Brinsworth House, a retirement home for ...

If a friend or relative died in the Eighties, the chances are they were buried or cremated by Howard Hodgson’s funeral firm. Such was his ubiquity he was known as Mr Death, but with his mop of ...

Good news for humans 😍. Read on to learn why poetry might make you feel better in a fairly dark world. I’m fascinated by the potential for poetry (yes, poetry) to play a bigger part in our ...

Essendon legend James Hird has joined Matthew Lloyd in questioning the timing of a contract extension offered to Bombers coach Brad Scott, revealing there was a "trigger" in his original deal that ...

Poem has announced its appointment as the social media agency for McCain’s Masterbrand portfolio in Australia and New Zealand. This exciting new partnership will see Poem develop and execute ...

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

Hird believes with sufficient funding, the FifthQtr Foundation could offer a helpline service to former footballers, who are struggling to seek professional support for personal issues. The former ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from AFL. Followed categories will be added to My News. Hird believes with sufficient funding, the FifthQtr Foundation could offer a helpline service to former ...

But should a major decline occur, he continued, "heed these lines" from Rudyard Kipling's classic poem "If," circa 1895. "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...