News about John Keats

ROLAND WHITE: The poet John Keats famously described autumn as the season of mists, mellow fruitfulness... and a new series of The Great British Bake Off. Or he surely would have done had he still been with us. This is the 15th series, and it's my solemn duty to report that the jokes are as bad as ever. Sometimes it's like watching an office party, where the management ( Ricky Gervais would be perfect for this role) tries to lighten the atmosphere, and junior staff laugh nervously along.

Despite working night shifts looking after children with disabilities, Lucky Paula Sarmento, 61, lives alongside billionaires, Hollywood musicians, pop stars, and A-list celebrities in leafy Hampstead, north London. After moving into the sprawling Victorian villa worth a whopping £20 million, Paula explained how she's coping with the cost of living crisis and being able to put savings aside.' The three-story mansion has 27 rooms, including 12 bedrooms, eight bathrooms, three kitchens, and two dining rooms, and is located on extensive grounds. Paula has her own large bedroom with en-suite toilet and also has a separate office space. 'It's a spectacular spot to live,' she told MailOnline a guided tour of the building.' Being here is a privilege; I'd never thought I'd be able to afford it.'

JEFF POWELL: For the purposes of his biography, the life and times of the only man to captain England to World Cup glory, we were coming to an end. 'Hold on a minute,' Bobby Moore said. In Essex's large family home, Morlands, he arose and disappeared somewhere upstairs. On tiptoe. Tina's wife had gone to bed long before. When he landed, he was wearing a folded red shirt. Both hands. Reverently. It was the shirt that made it. On that balmy July afternoon in 1966, when he took the Jules Rimet Trophy in his hands and the world was at his feet, he wore it in the shadows of Wembley's Twin Towers. That shirt. The ultimate symbol of England's legendary extra-time conquest, West Germany, of which, just moments earlier, he'd been sharing with me his personal memories to preserve for posterity.

The Harry Potter actor has been seen taking in the Eternal City's sights once more, this time with former lover Francesca Annis, who was involved in the loss of his first marriage. Ralph, 60, who plays evil Lord Voldemort in Potter films, and Francesca, 77, stopped to photograph poet John Keats at the tomb. The couple, who lived from 1996 to 2006, posed arms as they walked from their hotel to the Garden of Oranges, with stunning views of the city, including St Peter's Basilica.

A.N. It used to be a sign of getting older, but policemen seemed to be getting older. Now it's mice. Experimental therapy has shown that experimental therapy can rejuvenate cell culture in mice, prolonging their lives. The results may lead to the development of a method that can be tested in humans within five years. Terrific! The white-coated boffins are hoping to be infused with magical genes so that people can imagine being like the world's oldest lady, a French nun who died last week at the age of 118, not looking a day over 109.

Plastic is a wonder of the modern age, so it's absolutely ecofriendly to encourage the ecobulls to take it off us when all they have are replacements that are vastly ineffective or don't work at all. Paper drinking straws aren't suitable for the job, and plastic utensil substitutes leave a bad taste in your mouth. It's also time to bring back the convenience and luster of the supermarket grocery shopping without using plastic bags.

Sir Francis Drake, the Spanish Armada hero, has been given a new information panel describing his slave trade expeditions (right). Following the Black Lives Matter protests, the local town council reviewed the monument to the Elizabethan sailor in Tavistock, Devon. Despite only receiving one letter of support and 89 protests, a new sign has been put into place. The new information board beside Sir Francis Drake's statue is described as 'balanced' and 'objective.'

Miss America's 2018 was a sad one for the swimsuit section as the pageant was no longer judged too much on physical appearance. Julia Morley, who took over Miss Great Britain from her father Eric in 2000, had already dropped the section in 2014, saying that women in bikinis 'doesn't do anything for the woman,' and that doing so doesn't do anything for us.' Melissa Raouf, a Miss England contestant and politics undergraduate, went without make-up in the semi-finals this week, opting to rely on only her natural beauty. It's the first time this has happened in the show's 94-year history.

The Taylor Swift Songbook will help undergraduates explore their Wildest Dreams by investigating the popstar's songwriting as part of the liberal arts curriculum. Swift's lyrics, according to Elizabeth Scala, may help to reveal similar techniques in classical poetry. Scala, a self-described 'Swiftie,' said she plans to bring classical poetry and writing to young readers through modern culture.

The University of Warwick has issued a warning far from the Madding Crowd (inset), which depicts the brutal reality of Victorian rural life. Thomas Hardy's (19th Century work (right) explores Bathsheba Everdene's loves and marriages, as well as faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak (left), Carey Mulligan and Matthias Schoenaerts appear as the characters in the book's 2015 film version). Gabriel's two hundred pregnant ewes are chased by his dog and crash to their deaths off a cliff in one scene. He kills his inexperienced sheepdog and becomes penniless after this. Four of Bathsheba's sheep died after eating a field of clover in a separate chapter. The Warwick's English Department set the alarm off the novel in the midst of scenes in which students could be 'upset by' as the story depicts the 'cruelty of nature and the rural life'.