... CHRISTABEL LEIGHTON-PORTER Christabel Leighton-Porter who died on December 7 aged 87, was known to thou sands during the Second World War as Jane. She was the lady who inspired the strip cartoon of the same name in the Daily Mirror in which the heroine gets ...

... Belle Vue Circus, Manchester and at the Kelvin Hall Circus, Glasgow for Gus Bostock's Circus. Austin spent most of the Second World War as a driver for the Air Ministry, after his application to be a pilot was turned down due to colour blindness. After ...

... in Eccles near Manchester, and won a scholarship from Man chester Grammar School to Keble College, Oxford. During the Second World War he served as an intelligence officer in Palestine, and on his return to Britain joined the BBC's northern region as a ...

... Klot into a large family of Russian descent on April 1 1923 in London's East End. After serving in the RAF dur ing the Second World War, he entered showbusiness as Issy Bonn's dresser, and was allowed to sing one song dur ing Bonn's show. His big break ...