... years of service in the top peoples store BRITISH comic Rob Newman has just finished writing a film script called Dig for Victory which he plans to star in himself AMERICAN thriller writer Elmore Leonard will be one of the special guests at the ...

... for the welfare state. Instead, the welfare state has been brought to its knees by the escalating cost of The wartime 'dig for victory' appeals to Brown, who sees himself as a latter-day Churchill ...

... FROM England came an envelope postmarked with the “Dig For Victory” slogan. It contained a pamphlet sent to me by a London reader for a tail-end story. The booklet is ponderously called ‘“Eat For Victory,” and advocates the vitamins to be found in grass: ...

... Hickey then sealed the deal with a snap-shot in the dying seconds as sheer pride and obstinancy helped the home side dig out victory. But those final exchanges were the only sparks of excitement in an encounter which, while featuring some excellent defence ...

... champagne the Duchess of Cornwall was given a giant cabbage for her birthday. Camilla and the Prince of Wales visited the Dig For Victory allotment in St James's Park, London, designed to show the advantages of growing your own veg. The site shows the differences ...

... Brown's wife, Sarah, has started growing vegetables and fruit in the back garden of Number 10 Downing Street. The wartime 'dig for victory' gesture appeals to the prime minister who sees himself as a latter- day Churchill, fighting against the global forces ...

... produced very few slogans which have caught the imagination. In England the tillage campaign has been furthered by the cry: “Dig for Victory.” Otherwise the phrasemakers have had scant success. Perhaps they may do better before the war ends. ...

... with a final of 4 p.c., is maintained for the year at 6 1 2 p.c. free of tax. The £l, units 'stand at 45/3. With the Dig for Victory campaign still in full swing, seed merchants are reaping a fair harvest for themselves. Ryder and Sons (1920) is a p ...

... Victorian age to assist the working man (yes, it was all men in those days) in providing for his family. World War II and the Dig for Victory Campaign meant that allotment culture became a fixed feature of English life. I may be wrong but I calculate that there ...

... than a cuttingedge garden for our times. Set in 1945 and decorated with homecoming Union Jack bunting, it boasted a 'Dig for Victory' vegetable plot containing old varieties, a thatched pub and an overgrown patch sown with wild flowers and symbolic red ...

... spuds on the table, and retreated to their allotments and garden sheds until it was all over. In the UK, there was a Dig for Victory campaign, which was not an audacious attempt to tunnel into Colditz, but rather a drive to persuade people to feed themselves ...

... Peter Maxwell Davies travels to Antarctica. (512145) B.OO—THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GARDEN The effects of World War Two's Dig for Victory campaign on the British garden. when necessity led to food replacing flowers on plots. (1232) 9.OO—WHITE TRIBE New series ...