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She had left her native Newcastle and signed to a London model agency, but her figure became "unfashionably curvy" and she was too short for catwalk shows.

Those aural wizards from New York's Lower East Side have gone back to basics on their latest opus, NYC Ghosts And Flowers, an unfashionably brief - it's 45 minutes long - and brutally metropolitan meditation.

Affable, impeccably mannered, unfashionably dressed, he comes across as a deep, intelligent man who you suppose lives a slightly dull existence of carpets, a night-cap sherry and family.

Now, Andrew McNamara has struck up a successful partnership with the unfashionably bred, short-tailed wonder, who is guaranteed a huge reception if a fourth Lexus, formerly the Ericsson, and a tenth Grade 1 - Moscow Flyer won ten of them - comes his way.

MY invitation said the doors of the Royal Albert Hall would open at 6pm for the annual proceedings and I arrived unfashionably early.

Rangers emerged to the familiar chants of "champion-ees" from the small band of their fans who had arrived unfashionably early for the party.

The fact is that even as a probationer police constable Paul Condon was unfashionably politically correct.

But in his youth, he wore his hair uncombed, his clothes were patched - deliberately - and he affected unfashionably long cravats.

Only by laying down unfashionably fierce restrictions will the lesson be learned that the racecourse is one of the few places left where you cannot go to get legless with impunity, in the certain knowledge that nobody will lift a finger to stop selfish and inconsiderate conduct.

Four o'clock on a hot, sticky Friday afternoon is not the time to stagger - unfashionably late - on to a magazine shoot and reveal you'd got the wrong end of the stick and thought you were about to do `a couple of quick shots' for a Saturday cover.

Yes, such an entity does exist and this mob have consistently pricked the Spinal Tap excesses of their contemporaries - even the haircuts are, in metal terms, unfashionably short.

Although unfashionably bred, Marcovil sired the great unbeaten champion Hurry On, whose victories included a war-time substitute St Leger in 1916' My Prince, an outstanding sire of jumpers' and Miss Matty, the dam of 1923 Derby winner Papyrus.