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AT 4.30PM, GMT, Democrat candidate Joe Biden secured enough votes in Pennsylvania for media outlets around the world to announce that he would be the next President of the USA. Who’s cheering? Donald Trump isn’t cheering, for one. He was ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” Groucho Marx ●Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! I’m what you’d call ethnically Catholic. Don’t believe in God, still hate Rangers… Dara O’Briain, comedian ●Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!” Milton Jones, comedian ●Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! Christmases were terrible, not like nowadays when kids get everything. My sister got a miniature set of perfumes called ‘Ample’. It was tiny, but even I could see where my dad had scraped off ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, ‘Jesus! This cup is expensive!’” Conan O’Brien, US broadcaster ●Read more about it: Thought for today ...

THE ISLAND NETWORK is stepping in to ensure that children abandoned by the Government will not go hungry this half term. The Network will be distributing food on the Isle of Dogs to children in need this week – the ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.” Eppie Lederer, 1918-2002, US columnist, writing the Ann Landers column ●Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.” Redd Foxx, 1922-1991, US comedian and actor ●Read ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.”– Ashleigh Brilliant ●Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today