T he news that one of Tommy Cooper's fez hats made a record £7,000 when it went under the hammer in an auction in Bedfordshire recently came as quite a surprise to retired North Lincolnshire ...

Fez hats were once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire. But after they were banned in Egypt in the 1950s, fez shops largely disappeared. We visited one of the last shops in Cairo, where Nasser Abd El ...