John Bright: Passport quiz is just not cricket!
Returning from a holiday in Portugal’s Algarve with his wife this month, Ross Reyburn spent some 30 minutes being quizzed by customs officials at Birmingham Airport, unhappy as his Canadian passport offered no evidence he was entitled to live in Britain. Born in Toronto, he was ‘smuggled’ into the country in 1950 aged four when his late father, writer Wallace Reyburn, author of Flushed with Pride – The Story of Thomas Crapper, became London columnist for the Toronto Telegram newspaper.more
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John Bright: I have a history lesson at Trafalgar Debate Lunch
Along to the Trafalgar Debate Lunch, sponsored by Richardsons Capital at Hagley Hall, home of Lord Cobham.more
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Has anyone ever come across a cricket scorer simultaneously umpiring in the same match?Read
John Bright: 17 takes to get Lomu's bulldozing run on film!
You may remember me telling you that the Midlands has a new film star.more
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Never realised that Birmingham businessman Trevor Foster was a bit of a cricket nut.
Turns out he is chairing the organising committee of the Eve of Edgbaston Test Dinner for West Midlands region of the Lord’s Taverners.more
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Disturbing news.
It may not yet be on the scale of the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock horror movie The Birds but I am reliably informed Moseley Ashfield Cricket Club’s problems with our feathered friends continue.more
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They’ve all done it … PR luminaries like Andy Skinner and Fred Bromwich, and now it has happened to cuddly Heart DJ Ed James.Read
John Bright: 'New man' still hasn't lost some of his old ways
Went along to the latest incarnation of Edward Carter as he takes a back seat at quoted public relations firm Freshwater.more
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The Bishop-Wallace Mailbox Wedding was a huge success and culminated in 200 people in a tunnel underground in their pyjamas...Read
Our feathered friends have been disrupting the John Bright Trophy, Birmingham’s corporate cricket tournament.
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Excellent news – Eddie Marston is back in town.Read
Adrian Hindmarsh, Birmingham’s favourite lawyer, has been gawping at the celebrities again.Read
It all happened on Saturday – in a true recession-busting effort some 690 hardy folk took part in the annual St Basils Challenge in the Brecon Beacons.Read
Working with your children has its advantages and disadvantages, as television personality Llewela Bailey has found out.Read
We’ve decided that Fridays – with the prospect of a well-earned weekend off – ought to be a day when we try to cheer everybody up with a few gags. So enjoy Friday fun time…Read
Trevor Law, who put on the recent Meriden Conservative Association fund raising lunch at Eastcote Hall, Barston, assures me he has no plans to put in an expenses claim.Read
“Greetings from a very hot and sunny Cannes.”Read
Along to a Birmingham Press Club bash to hear the doyen of foreign correspondents Dame Ann Leslie.Read
‘Ancient rocker’ Grindley bottles out after visitRead
Top political journalist John Sergeant, now equally well known as the man who resigned from Strictly Come Dancing, was on form when delivering the Institute of Directors’ Annual Lecture at the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham.Read
