London, Mar 31 : Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill loved a "hearty breakfast" with some whisky and a cigar, it has emerged.

While aboard the BOAC flight in June 1954, Churchill did not find the plane''s menu to be good enough, and thus wrote one out himself.

His hearty meal included poached egg, toast, jam, butter, coffee and milk, a jug of cold milk, cold chicken, and meat.

He also had grapefruit, sugar bowl, a glass orange squash (ice), with some whisky soda to wash down, along with a cigar.

London, March 14 : Sixty-three years have passed since a Moluccan Cockatoo amused Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill by riding a high-wire bicycle, but the parrot's old age has not stopped her from drawing crowds as yet.

Named Pinky, the parrot performed for Churchill in 1946 Miami's Jungle Island.

She is currently 67 years old, and remains a favourite at the island.

London, Mar 2 : A "sarcastic" letter written by former British PM Winston Churchill to Welsh language campaigners is expected to fetch 2000 pounds when it goes under the hammer.

In a letter written on December 3 1941, Welsh language campaigners demanded to meet Churchill in lieu of their petition, asking to put the language on the same footing as English in all public services, during World War II.

The petition also demanded to repeal laws preventing Welsh from being used in the Welsh Law Courts.

London, Feb 10: Winston Churchill would have never become the British Prime Minister had he been alive today, says Alastair Campbell, former PM Tony Blair''s director of communications.

He said that Churchill, who led UK during World War II, would have been stigmatised because of his depression, which he called as his "black dog".

In a report highlighting the issues around mental illness, Campbell said other great public figures such as Florence Nightingale, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin and Marie Curie had some form of mental problem.

And he claimed that all the above people might never have achieved great things if they had been subjected to today''s intense media glare and harsh public scrutiny.

Wellington, Jan 8 : Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill were not dyslexic, according to Massey University College of Education pro-vice chancellor James Chapman.

Professor Chapman, who is also the president of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities insists that if Einstein and Churchill were dyslexic they wouldn't have produced the scientific, historical or literary works.

According to a scientific view, dyslexia is a persistent literary learning difficulty.

London, Nov 29 : A letter written by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has been stolen from council offices.