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Super Tuesday for fat cats

9:30am Thursday 26th February 2009

YESTERDAY I ate 13 pancakes, fried up in Lurpak and finished with cream, to celebrate the spirit of Shrove Tuesday.

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Reality becomes all too real

9:20am Thursday 19th February 2009

OF all the people you’d expect to see gathered around the hospital bed of someone who have just found out they’re dying, a publicist, with a pencil poised for an official statement, is probably not one of them.

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This winter weather is proving to be snow joke

9:00am Thursday 12th February 2009

HERE is my daily routine these days. I get up when the sun’s past the yard-arm, I look out the window, and yes, my expectations are once again fulfilled.

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Exclamations on the demise of the apostrophe

11:34am Thursday 5th February 2009

“IT’S a disgrace!’ shouts one outraged member of a newspaper chat room. “Council’s are pandering to the immigrants,” argues another.

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Our bonnie lass sees the bright side of Burns

11:36am Thursday 29th January 2009

I COME back from university for a friendly weekend with the folks and what do I end up doing?

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Curtain falls on George W’s tragic comedy

9:50am Thursday 22nd January 2009

AS Obama takes the spotlight after his long anticipated inauguration, am I the only one asking, what of our beloved George W in all of this?

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Have a cheap and cheerful Christmas

1:40pm Tuesday 23rd December 2008

With the economic forecast looking ever gloomier for 2009, it’s not surprising that there have been calls to cancel Christmas this year.

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Local politics is more hassle than it’s worth

11:26am Thursday 18th December 2008

I LOVE finding out strange things about the nation I live in, like when I discovered that the IRA existed or that a farmer lives in that house between the lanes of the M62.

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Blame should lie with the perpetrators not others

12:18pm Thursday 11th December 2008

OH, Dewsbury. What a way to get yourself on the map. Not for sporting achievements, architectural greatness or even a terrific curry mile.

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Where now to solve the pick and mix conundrum?

2:43pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008

THIS week’s been a good one for breaking bad news. The sustained attacks on Mumbai, along with a parliamentary arrest have kept national newsdesks fairly well-stoked for the past few days, allowing other bombshells to go by the wayside.

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