Don't worry, you'll have a good time, it's just that if you need to spend a penny then it is highly advisable to go before you go, if you follow. One unlucky bloke, needing to use the bathroom went looking for a public convenience on Monday before the performance of the Yorkshire-set play only to find the theatre's male conveniences suddenly inconvenient. The gents toilets have been turned this week into ladies. With the audience about 90 per cent women, it seemed to make sense. Except to the men desperate to use the bathroom who will need to find their way to the toilets on the second floor.



The Golden Angel statue which forms part of controversial tattooing exhibition The Body Carnival at Bradford's Cartwright Hall Gallery has now become the hottest setting for Civil Partnership photography.

Newly married gay couples are queuing up to be pictured near the 12-foot erotic statue of a pierced angel by sculptor Anthony Bennett. The naked angel was modelled for by Bradford rock-singer/model Mik Davis of New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack – he said: "It's cool – I wish the couples all the best – it's a fantastic statue and I was very happy modelling for Anthony who's a great artist." A selection of the pics can be seen at www.in
thepinkphotography.com



Please no, please say Parky isn't actually going to sing.

That was probably the first thought of many when it was announced that Sir Michael Parkinson was entering a joint venture with Warner Bros Records. The horror will have grown greater when details of the joint venture were announced: A series of albums, the first of which is out next month and called My Life in Music. He's a respected interviewer, a much-loved author and journalist, but surely no amount of goodwill can let the public accept Parky as a crooner? The relief is almost palpable... it turns out that My Life in Music is a compilation album, apparently of "the music that has provided the soundtrack to his life, remembers the extraordinary people he's met and celebrates the styles of music and performers he is most passionate about".

The release of the album also celebrates the launch of his website www.michaelparkinson.tv which will feature interviews with Nelson Mandela and Rory Bremner, with more to come.



Former Yorkshire Evening Post journalist Keith Waterhouse has been on the warpath again.

The Leeds-born columnist and journalist, who found wide fame with his book Billy Liar, has been criticising the film industry.

Perhaps Waterhouse has bad memories of his famous book being turned into an even more famous movie. The 1959 book Billy Liar was filmed by John Schlesinger with Tom Courtenay in the part of Billy. It was nominated for six 1964 BAFTA awards, including Best Screenplay, and was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. While the story may hold good memories for Waterhouse, it being turned into a movie, it seems, may not. The playwright was quoted as saying: "The wisest words ever to come out of Hollywood were that nobody knows anything about anything. It is practically the film colony's motto. Yet, somehow this ramshackle, tinpot, quicksand empire survives."