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[George 1978]

All I can say is that I am glad that Crystal Palace won the FA Cup - Manchester City being punished for defeating Nottingham Forest!...

[George 1978]

Watched the whole lot - all 250 minutes of it! I was glad that Luxembourg made it to the final and was in second position in the show which meant not long to wait. I believe that we could have got over 100 points on jury points alone. No televotes? Come on! We did have a reasonable amount of points...

[George 1978]

I thought that Ipsos was the regulator of national newspapers - the acronym sounds rather similar...

[George 1978]

The Church often refers to it as Holy Saturday - I am certain that George Carey and other Archbishops have referred to that "in-between" day as that. One thing I associate that date with was the Queen Mother's death in 2002....

[George 1978]

Congratulations to Robert Francis Prevos on becoming the new Pontiff and the 267th Pope to become leader of the Catholic Church. He will be known as Pope Leo XIV, and he is 69 years of age (born in September 1955). He was born over 50 years after the death of the last Pope Leo (known as Leo XIII) in...

[George 1978]

I will be so upset if Luxembourg doesn't get into the final this year - Laura is someone who I wouldn't mind falling in love with...

I also hope that there will be an English translation of that song as well....

[George 1978]

I was shopping in the main Tesco a couple of months ago and I heard on their radio, Tears for Fears' Everybody Wants to Rule the World which took me back to 1985 and travelling to open fields around a mile away on a Sunday afternoon back then and then coming back to get an ice cream or a small bottle...

[George 1978]

If you watch the very first episode from 1960, around 2:50 in at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00H0ycLk52I, you will find that Dennis Tanner was the first man to be seen in Coronation Street. His first line was: "where's what?"

There are now just only three living former cast...

[George 1978]

Just watched the the BBC One funeral coverage - what a great send-off for such a great pontiff. Bless him.