Article: Loveless life of the minister they call DORIS KARLOFF.(News)

Article: Her nickname is Doris Karloff but she's no monster; ...
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  June 3, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Ann best can hardly believe that at last the woman dubbed Doris Karloff for her unattractive appearance is having her day. Moya ... kind of a woman, but she is very much a woman. Despite the Doris Karloff nickname, which she has gleefully - and cunningly - embraced ...

Article: Doris Karloff? I'm just a white-haired old lady . . ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  July 7, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... treasurer of the Oxford Union. At 50, the Tory MP for Maidstone and new Shadow Health Secretary, is known to detractors as Doris Karloff. Unmarried, she has a flat in South-East London and a cottage in her constituency. Here, she talks to . POLITICS tends ...

Article: DORIS KARLOFF ATTACKS FERRIS; Verbal doing for ...
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);  August 28, 2005 ;     465 words ... ... HENDRY FEARLESS Ann Widdecombe had cocky thug Paul Ferris on the ropes last night. The former minister, who was nicknamed Doris Karloff during her bruising political career, rounded on the gangland hardman over his savage violence. The pair went head-to ...

Article: 'Doris Karloff' helps homeless Fellow MPs tremble ...
The Independent - London;  January 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ...SHE HAS been dubbed Doris Karloff, and ridiculed for her unbending political views. But privately, Ann Widdecombe, the Tory health spokeswoman, has a softer ...

Article: From Doris Karloff to Widdecombe fair.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 15, 2000 ;     557 words ... ... concession to fashion as she gets on with the serious business of being Shadow Home Secretary. But the woman unkindly nicknamed Doris Karloff has suddenly ditched the school ma'am look to become Britain's unlikeliest cover girl. Resplendent in gold crochet ...

Article: How 'Doris Karloff' became party's favourite matron
The Scotsman;  October 7, 1998 ;     700+ words ...NOT so long ago, Ann Widdecombe was cruelly nicknamed Doris Karloff. But overnight, as if by magic, the plainly unglamorous sister of Frankenstein's monster has been transformed into the Tories ...

Article: HOW DORIS KARLOFF WENT BLONDE, LOST TWO STONE-AND, ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... source, unkindly. 'I am toothy, I am dumpy, I am ugly, I am overweight - what the hell?' said the woman once dubbed Doris Karloff, after delivering her devastating response. 'The stories came straight out of the Howard camp. I have no doubt of that ...