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If you have Sky TV, you've probably seen ads for the new Sky Arts series which starts soon featuring the celebrity photographer Rankin (he only uses one name, like Madonna or Cher ... or Kojak).
The idea is that members of the grimy-faced proletariat can have their portraits taken by the master, just as if they were Madonna, or Cher .... or Kojak).

SIZE really does matter, it turns out - at least in the cruise liner business.

The Crown Princess is the biggest liner ever to berth in the Mersey - at 113,000 tonnes and 951ft in length she's a very big girl indeed.

If it wasn't for my washing line, I wouldn't now be slightly famous in Vietnam.

Let me explain .... the above picture made page 3 of the Echo, the front page of Merseymart, somewhere or other in the Daily Telegraph (whatever that is) and any amount of websites from here to Portugal, India and ... you guessed ... Vietnam.

The more discerning of you will have grasped immediately that this is an excellent picture of a UFO, proving their existence once for all.
Unless it's a Chinese lantern, of course, in which case I'm afraid it still looks like we're very much alone Out There.

I used to joke with Steve Shakeshaft - one of my extremely distinguished predecessors - that with an average exposure of 1/125 of a second for each shot he took, he'd probably only actually worked for a couple of hours during his entire career.

I think he took it as a joke, anyway - although I've never had a Christmas card from him.