PUBLISHED: 09:58 11 September 2018 | UPDATED: 09:58 11 September 2018 Judy Rimmer Students may feel nervous when heading off to university, but parents can help to reassure them. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO Png-Studio So your son or daughter is flying the nest and heading off to uni. What do you need to help them with before they go, and what should they take with them and leave behind? Student life can put on the pressure. GETTY IMAGES/WAVEBREAK MEDIAIt can be quite a wrench for parents when, after seeing your child through every stage of education from nursery onwards, you suddenly find them heading off to a university, maybe in a different area of the country. As a parent, you can’t just switch off worrying about them - and you will want to do everything you can to help them before they set off. Here is our checklist of important things to do before they leave home.Build independenceOne of the most essential and difficult things is for both … [Read more...] about Son or daughter off to university? Parents’ guide to help new students prepare
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He auditioned to be Pete Beale and spent 11 years behind bars — Leslie Grantham was perfect Dirty Den because his life was a real soap opera
THE night Dirty Den handed divorce papers to scheming wife Angie at the Queen Vic is still a piece of TV history. Some 30.6million stunned viewers watched Leslie Grantham’s menacing performance on Christmas Day 1986. It may be more than 30 years ago but only two events in UK telly history have had more viewers — Princess Diana’s funeral and when England won the 1966 World Cup. Grantham was only expected to play Britain’s most reviled character Den Watts for ten weeks. He had actually auditioned for the part of market trader Pete Beale. The two characters could not have been more different. But Grantham was so convincing as the cold, calculating, menacing landlord who repeatedly cheated on his bubbly wife and impregnated a 16-year-old girl that he stayed for four years. But by the time Dirty Den was murdered on the towpath of an East London canal in 1989 with a gun fired through a bunch of daffodils the world knew why Grantham was so convincing as a villain. … [Read more...] about He auditioned to be Pete Beale and spent 11 years behind bars — Leslie Grantham was perfect Dirty Den because his life was a real soap opera