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Few people know Britain’s famous eccentrics as well as American psychologist David Weeks, who has made a two-year study of people he calls “happily obsessed.” Weeks, principal clinical psychologist at ...

Someone somewhere sometime - well, it may have been Victoria Melody in Lincoln this week (more about her later) said: "We are only as interesting as the people we know". And I do try my best. This ...

Do you believe you can talk to fairies? Perhaps you have collected more than 100 pet cats? Or maybe you like to dress like a medieval Queen? We British are justly famed for our eccentrics and over the ...

British Youth Opera’s production of Malcolm Williamson’s skittish and neglected piece is first rate, with some standout performances Some of the new works performed this summer have suggested that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1961, a daring daylight robbery was committed in London, when Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1812-14), recently ...

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