Though he is one of Britain’s biggest industrialists, Sir Bernard Docker is better known in the sensational penny press than in the financial and society pages, and so is his wife Norah. There have ...

Keeping up with the Dockers wasn’t easy. They were known as the It-couple, the reality superstars of their day, dripping in excess wealth and frivolity. Through Britain’s post-war years, there was ...

Many years ago, my mother went through a brief phase of inventing words and expressions. "He was hyrannical," she would say, to describe someone who had worked themselves into a frenzy of anger. I ...

It was the day the miners met the Dockers. What the 45 pit men from the Waterhey colliery near Leeds must have thought as they stepped aboard the 863-ton luxury yacht in Southampton in the summer of ...

Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Britain’s wealthy, mink-loving Lady Docker, her temper bubbling to a boil, sat in Monaco’s overstuffed Hotel de Paris and mulled over the insult: ...

The 1950s were the time of Teddy boys and Brylcreem, rock 'n' roll, Sunday Night at the London Palladium and - as far as Southampton was concerned - the colourful couple Sir Bernard and Lady Docker.

It is the luxury limousine designed by a former showgirl who dreamed it would bring glamour and pizzazz to gloomy post-war Britain. Instead, the ill-fated Daimler Stardust nearly bankrupted its makers ...

It was the day the miners met the Dockers. What the 45 pit men from the Waterhey colliery near Leeds must have thought as they stepped aboard the 863-ton luxury yacht in Southampton in the summer of ...