Cyril Amourette

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Spaghetti Junction at 50: What lies beneath?

Spaghetti Junction at 50: What lies beneath?

The heavy sound of vehicles trundling overhead is impossible to ignore from beneath one of the UK’s best-known concrete structures, which turns 50 on Tuesday. Thousands of motorists travel through the Gravelly Hill Interchange on the outskirts of Birmingham at every hour of every day. Spaghetti Junction at 50: What lies beneath?

The day I thwarted Jimmy Savile: Mark Lawson on trying to stop Britain’s worst sex offender

The day I thwarted Jimmy Savile: Mark Lawson on trying to stop Britain’s worst sex offender

My family go to a local Catholic church where, to my wild schoolboy excitement, Leeds United players regularly attend mass. Sightings of Billy Bremner, Eddie Gray, Terry Yorath – tie-knots as wide as their trouser flares – are the real religious experience for me. The day I thwarted Jimmy Savile: Mark Lawson on trying to …

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