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  • The Queen voted Britain's most influential golden oldie

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    If you want to feel all-powerful in your fancy dress this summer, you'd better get ready to go out looking like the Queen.

    That's because she has been voted top in a list of Britain's most influential and best-loved senior citizens.

    The Women's Royal Voluntary Society (WRVS) organised a poll throughout the UK to commemorate the baby boomers of 1945 turning 66 and asked people to name OAPs who they think have really made a difference in various

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  • Teenager creates Dad's Army set in garden sheds

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    An enterprising teenager from Norfolk has managed to recreate the set of hit TV show Dad's Army in his garden shed.

    Darren Stride, 19, first began work on his Bygones Museum at his home near Great Yarmouth four years ago, making use of a range of wartime accessories such as medals, gas masks and a Dad's Army costume to transform the humble space into a shrine to the comedy after being forced to move his collection from

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  • Christie Brinkley to razzle dazzle in Chicago

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    Former supermodel Christie Brinkley is set to razzle dazzle audiences in the West End version of Chicago.

    The 57-year-old, who inspired her then-husband Billy Joel to write the song Uptown Girl back in 1983, will head to the Cambridge Theatre for a four-week stint starting on July 11th 2011.

    She will appear alongside Jonathan Wilkes as sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn and Amra-Faye Wright as fellow murderess Velma Kelly.

    Brinkley is no stranger to the musical, as she has

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