Lennon and Ono emerge from the pages as a happily married domesticated couple

Lennon and Ono emerge from the pages as a happily married, domesticated couple.”The couple slept on a bedstead supported on two church pews,” Ms Lopez revealed on Friday in Madrid, at the launch of her book, whose Spanish title translates as At Home with John Lennon. Fans avid for every detail of the last years of John Lennon’s life may now relish the first-hand observations by… the former Beatle’s Spanish cleaning lady, released to an unsuspecting public last week.
Rosaura Lopez Lorenzo, 72, from Spain’s north-western Galician port of Pontevedra, cleaned for Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono during the four years the couple lived in New York’s Dakota apartment building. Today you should reckon on parting with more than £20,000 for a well-sorted example A blue-chip automotive investment, if ever there was one.. You still see SLs being used as daily transport, particularly in the more exclusive west London post codes, which speaks volumes for their build quality and relatively simple, unburstable mechanics. The SL was launched as the 230 SL but subsequent 250 and 280 versions brought some extra oomph (although “oomph” is probably overstating it) and a fifth gear.

You could have either a folding canvas roof, an elegant removable hard top (which allowed for a double-jointed back-seat passenger or two Chihuahuas) or both. But, so what if Mercedes has given up on making cars that will survive the apocalypse (there’s no point – the only things left will be cockroaches and John Redwood)? If the curvy CLS is the shape of Mercedes-Benz to come, a return to £3bn-a-year profits will only be a matter of time.It’s a Classic: Mercedes-Benz SLDespite the boxy taxi tanks it has tended to make over the last couple of decades, Mercedes-Benz is no stranger to aesthetic subtlety and grace. Take the legendary “pagoda roof” SL of 1963: though it was about as sporty as a wind-powered water bed, the SL was exquisitely styled by the French sculptor and painter Paul Bracq, and had a crisp, chic style that has helped keep it fresh and modern to this day. The drug also reduces mental decline in people with some types of dementia.Does it have side effects? Yes. About six in every 100 people suffer stomach upsets, nausea and vomiting. In some, it irritates the stomach lining causing bleeding, which can lead to ulcers. About one in 500 people develops an intense itch or asthma attack.Is it safe for children? It is not recommended for children under the age of 12 because of the risk of Reye’s syndrome, a rare, life-threatening illness, which causes inflammation of the brain.Jeremy Laurance is the Health Editor of the IoS.

All diabetics are recommended to take a low-dose aspirin daily to reduce the effects of the condition on the blood vessels. It prevents blood clots by stopping platelets from clumping together.Is that all? No. It also reduces the incidence of colon cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer It may protect against other cancers too. I would go along with that – and its full potential has yet to be proved.”Jeremy Laurance: So what can it really do?Why is it called a wonder drug? The first universally available painkiller is still more widely used than any other over-the-counter analgesic. Nearly 50,000 tons of acetylsalicylic acid, its active ingredient, are produced a year, more than 100 billion tablets.What else does it do? One low- dose aspirin a day can cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes. But healthy people know if they have had stomach trouble or asthma Doctors are not prophets. It is for the individual to decide.” (The maximum effect, he says, is at a dose of 70mg-80mg.)As far as aspirin’s other benefits go, Professor Elwood says: “There is growing evidence the risk of dementia is reduced, and suggestive evidence that aspirin may protect against certain cancers.” Having worked with aspirin for decades, his verdict on this once hum-drum little pill is simple: “An American once called it ‘the first miracle drug’.

It also may assist in fighting Alzheimer’s, certain forms of blood poisoning, and protect against ovarian, lung, oesophageal, breast, colon and bowel cancers.There have been notes of caution, too. Academic study has since supported his case.For its first 50 years, the drug had been thought of purely as a painkiller, but in 1953 a Californian GP noticed a strange thing: none of the 400 patients for whom he had prescribed aspirin had suffered a heart attack. In the 1970s, Sir John Vane discovered the science behind how aspirin works, and it began to dawn on scientists and clinicians that the world’s little helper might be quite a big thing after all.In the past 10 years, this cheapest of medicines (which sells today for 1p a tablet) has been proved to cut heart attacks (ironically, a 1920s advertisement for aspirin assured consumers “Does not affect the heart”), to cut the risk of strokes by 25 per cent, the risk of breast cancer by 20 per cent, and to profoundly help women with a history of multiple miscarriages to give birth. His reward for developing the wonder drug of the 20th century was to have his chemical works confiscated and to be sent to a concentration camp.He survived, and emerged in 1945 to claim that the major part of aspirin’s refinement was his work, and that he had been robbed of the credit.