Miss Manners: What’s the polite way to get to your seat when you have to pass several people?

I always thought that you should face the people you are passing (showing your prettier side), but a lot of people turn their backs.

Miss Manners: I wasn’t invited to the party, but I got the sales pitch

Am I out of line to have taken this as a breach of etiquette? Is this mixing of personal and commercial now proper?
Sunderland Echo

I remember the day when Prince William belted out YMCA on the karaoke at a North East hotel

It was 26 years ago this month that Prince William belted out a tune at the Crossways Hotel in Thornley. In April 2000, ...

The Porter’s Table review: Some good – and not so good – stuff at London’s new home of the black stuff, Guinness Open Gate Brewery

Restaurant at brewery’s swanky London venue misses as much as it hits ...

Dear Abby: One woman at our lunch table spoils meals for the rest of us

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.