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 Toby O’Brien was paid the princely sum of £30 a week for lobbying commercial television through Parliament, while making his friends and clients into millionaires.
Epernay, the Champagne centre, is surrounded by three villages called Bouzy, Rilly and Dizy.
 In 1958 Australian swimmer, Jon Konrads, aged 14, almost casually broke four World records in one training swim, the 800 metres, 880 yards, 1500 metres – on the way to the mile freestyle.
In the 50s, off-duty Officers in the Brigade of Guards were not allowed to travel on a bus, carry a parcel, smoke in the street or hold hands with a girl.
The author changed Guard at Buckingham Palace with himself – probably the only time it has happened in 380 years.
In the Rank Organisation’s fiftieth Anniversary Film on BBC, The Golden Gong, John Davis, Chairman for many years, was not allowed even to be mentioned.
The tape recorder was specially created by German engineers to enable Goebbels to pretend that Hitler was making speeches from Berlin.
It was not British ownership of Gibraltar that caused the trouble with Spain in the seventies. It was Britain’s intention to give Gibraltar its independence, contrary to the Treaty of Utrecht.
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The Birds of Britain book by John d Green, featuring the beautiful and exciting girls of the sixties, sold 55,000 copies worldwide and is reproduced for the first time in 34 years in Fringe Benefits.
 Sue Lloyd (right) starred opposite Michael Caine in the Ipcress File and went on to act Barbara Brady in Crossroads (18 million viewers). She is one of the most startling of John d. Green’s Birds of Britain (check out page 179).
Field Marshal Alexander was a superb landscape painter, much better than his boss Winston Churchill.
Bill Lear, the American creator of the Learjet, called his daughter Shanda. Shanda Lear was the slightly cruel result.
 Roger Whittaker was about to take up a teaching post in New Zealand when Durham Town suddenly became a hit, in spite of featuring the wrong river. (The Tyne not the Wear)
George Harrison pretended he was not the Beatle, with disastrous results for some young West Indian autograph hunters.
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