Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour embroiled in row over Brighton neighbour’s plan to chop down cherry tree

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour has become embroiled in a row over his neighbour’s plan to chop down a cherry tree as residents say it is the ‘last piece of nature’ next to his ‘overbearing’ seafront mansion. Gilmour and his wife, Polly Samson, purchased derelict 19th century Turkish bathhouse Medina House in 2015, before demolishing it … Read more

As moving as Kes… the tale of how troubled Charlie Gilmour was healed by a thieving magpie

Featherhood Charlie Gilmour W&N £16.99 Rating: Like many children, Charlie Gilmour never had much success with goldfish and hamsters and mice. ‘No matter what you do, it seems like they always end up in the same place: a shoebox at the bottom of a shallow grave.’ Charlie with his pet magpie, Benzene. Benzene’s bad habits were … Read more

Abandoned as a baby, Charlie Gilmour struggled until a magpie helped him fly free of his demons  

BOOK OF THE WEEK  Fatherhood by Charlie Gilmour (Weidenfeld £15.99, 288 pp) Featherhood, it would be tempting to say, is where Helen Macdonald’s H Is For Hawk meets Gerald Durrell’s My Family And Other Animals. But Charlie Gilmour’s memoir is so original and ingeniously wrought, it stands on its own as a book to which … Read more