Tom Bromley

LAST weekend, I was up in Yorkshire for the Scarborough Jazz Festival, three days of music in a glorious Vict…

IN 2019, the author JS Monroe was on a walk with friends in the Vale of Pewsey, when he spotted something str…

SOMETIMES it can feel as though Salisbury has had more than its fair share of news this year. If the Skripal …

THIS week's Mental Health Awareness Week has seen a welcome focus on issues surrounding mental health. In Sal…

THIS week sees the return of Celebrate Voice, the annual musical festival with its focus on singing. From ope…

LAST week, the Bromleys were away on holiday down on the Jurassic Coast. When it wasn't raining, we were down…

UNDER the cover of darkness on Saturday night, someone scaled the scaffolding to hang a large Russian flag on…

LAST weekend, I was over in Northern Ireland at the John O'Connor Writing Festival in Armagh. It was a wonder…

ONE of the less well-known statistics of the September 11th attacks in 2001 were the 1,595 people who died on…

IN last week's column, I wrote how the snow helped to see the city from a different perspective. This week, w…

ON the windowsill in my office I have a photograph of the Queen. A few years ago, I was involved in writing a…

If you haven't been yet, I really recommend going to see Grayson Perry's The Vanity of Small Differences, on …

THIS week, a national competition has been launched in Japan to encourage the population to drink more alcoho…

Last week I was making my regular drive up the M3 to visit my girlfriend in London when I noticed something s…

Very briefly, to follow on from last week's column, what wonderful scenes at Wembley on Sunday evening, as En…

The late stand-up comedian Bill Hicks told a story about the time he visited a Waffle House in Nashville, Ten…

'All must have prizes,' the Dodo declared in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But this will no longer be the…

IT MIGHT not have been the most festive of subjects, but programmes around the Skripal Affair played a promin…

Over the last few weeks I've been hugely enjoying a beautiful new book called Storyland by Amy Jeffs. The boo…

NONE of us are getting any younger. I had one of those lurching moments last week when I realised I was going…

This week I've been having an ongoing back and forth with a company called Mindful Chef. Mindful Chef are one…

THIS week I've been hugely enjoying two fascinating new books about, well, books. Nicholas Royle's wonderful …

THE art of nature writing is currently enjoying a thrilling and rewarding renaissance. This week sees the pub…

ONE OF the best elements of lockdown loosening for me has been the lifting of the stay local ruling. Older re…