there is no doubt that bill bailey is a man of many talents.e started out in stand—up but has acted in television series from black books and spaced to doctor who and hustle and he is a perennial favourite on tv panel shows. they pointed at me and they said, you are bill bailey aren't you? and then they went, nice try! able to play pretty much every instrument and with perfect pitch, he has successfully combined his musical talents with comedy. but he has other passions as well. bird watching is one of them. and now he has taken to museum curating as well. at the maritime museum in hull he has assembled a cabinet of curiosities, fascinating objects accompanied by their true descriptions and concocted, the ones as well. like this. or are the baboon buttocks? he has roped in the children of hull as well to make up some cracking tales. morgan, age 11, the cursed dog. it was found in the year a dark wizard cast a spell on him and turned him into wood. if you touch this dog for more than five minutes you will also get turned into wood just like othe

in the spirit of this exhibition, yes, i, bill bailey, bill of bailey, am the first comedian to curatehibition of this kind, anywhere in the world. bill bailey seemed like such a sound guy. he was as funny as he is on television. can you hear me? this is the loudest silent disco i have been at. what? i can't help it. this is a place for big kids and small, not unlike the malarkey festival, where i found out it was not just about books. this is the big malarkey, hull's first—ever literature festival for children. and if you thought a children's literature festival was all about books, think again. from theatre to hip—hop and arts and crafts, this week—long event has something for everyone. turning the east park of hull into a cultural paradise. # just look, it's true. # i just feel blue.# there has been a huge programme of activity and storytelling including a packed house forjulian clary talking about his children book. i caught up withjulian after he met the children of hull. what happens when you grow up, you're still a child inside. it was easy for me to revert back to being a child

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bill. frankie mccamley, bbc news. a teenager accused of preparing a terror attack in the uk will face trial injanuary. haider ahmed, who is 18 and from redhill in surrey, appeared at the old baileyith preparing terrorist acts and three further charges of disseminating a terrorist publication, between march and august 2016. he's been remanded in custody. lawyers representing an investment fund manager eric bellquist, who was arrested in relation to the putney bridge jogger investigation, have categorically denied that he was involved in the incident stating their client was in america at the time of the incident. the metropolitan police yesterday arrested and later released a 41 year old man, on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, after police released cctv footage in a public appeal which appeared to show a male jogger on putney bridge pushing a 33 year old woman towards the road and into the path of an oncoming bus which narrowly missed her. the eu's food safety commissioner has called for an end to countries blaming and shaming each other, after eggs were found to contain traces of an insecticide — fipronil — which can be dangerous to humans in high doses. the commissio