Hilary Gavin, Journalist & Writer

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  • Lal Bar: once an Indian restaurant on the corner of Hillfield Road and High Street, Selsey, where Sir Patrick Moore allegedly ate a Tandoori curry when a tornado struck the seaside town in January 1998

    By HILARY GAVIN https://www.facebook.com/groups/1384558033141754 15 minutes of fame – Wikipedia I SUSPECT everyone of us living in Britain today – excluding those who pride themselves on being total philistines – has heard the late New York artist Andy Warhol’s famous quote: “Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes“. Well, folks, it appears I had my…

  • Lal Bar: once an Indian restaurant on the corner of Hillfield Road and High Street, Selsey, where Sir Patrick Moore allegedly ate a Tandoori curry when a tornado struck the seaside town in January 1998

    By HILARY GAVIN https://www.facebook.com/groups/1384558033141754 IF YOU’VE been following my social media posts and my WordPress blog, you’ll know full well that the Second World War had a profound effect on both my late Mum and Dad. Of course, my father Gordon MacDonald Gavin served as RAF groundcrew abroad during the conflict but my mother Enid…

  • Lal Bar: once an Indian restaurant on the corner of Hillfield Road and High Street, Selsey, where Sir Patrick Moore allegedly ate a Tandoori curry when a tornado struck the seaside town in January 1998

    IT’S a year ago since the Day of the Jackal thriller writer Frederick Forsyth died and when I wrote this blog on Britain’s shame and Whitehall’s vanity during what is sometimes coined the Biafran War. In modern times, it is hard to explain the Cold War paranoia of the Sixties and Seventies so some of…

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