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Goodbye To The Iron Lady THE FUNERAL of Baroness Thatcher brought some 2,500 VIPs and an array of stars to St Paul’s Cathedral last month. Politicians from around the world have also been invited to bid farewell to Britain’s Iron Lady. The guest list includes an intensely personal selection full of old friends, family members [...]
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Winter Of Discontent LAST MONTH’s appalling weather conditions must have been like those of the North Pole. Not only was it freezing, it was also cold as well! It was the coldest winter I have experienced for quite some time. Most people in London have complained about the same thing and they will probably continue [...]
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Is Anybody There? HAS THE world really ended? According to the Mayan calendar, the world ended on December 21, 2012 which, if you are reading this, would have been last year – too late to wish you a Merry Christmas – but have a Happy New Year! As I am writing this column several days [...]
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Scandals At The BBC IT HAS been a bad month for the BBC. First they had the scandal of entertainer Jimmy Savile being allowed to continue working in spite of reports that he was a paedophile. Then came the Lord McAlpine story – he was wrongly accused of sexually abusing children, and received an apology [...]
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Plague Hits The Penguins PENGUINS at London Zoo have been struck by a strain of malaria which has already killed six of them. The outbreak is being blamed on the exceptionally wet and muggy summer, which created ideal conditions for the mosquitos that spread the disease. The remaining 58 birds in the colony are being [...]
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Royal Exposure FIRST we had the nude pictures of Prince Harry cavorting in a Las Vegas hotel, then came pictures of a topless Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing in Singapore. Perhaps one day we might see a nude picture of the entire royal family, although I wonder if it will be a very pretty sight. Prince [...]
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It’s All Over – Bar The Touring SO THE Diamond Jubilee is all over bar more touring by the Queen throughout the country. I must confess that I found four days of endless jollity and celebrations a bit of a bore. I felt sorry for the Queen and Prince Philip, who for several hours had [...]
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London’s Newly Elected Mayor THE NEWLY-elected Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, having retained his seat at City Hall by the narrowest of margins, and immediately called for a new airport in the Thames Estuary to take the pressure off West Londoners. He beat Ken Livingstone who said he would not contest the Mayoral seat again. [...]
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Battle For London Is On All Change At Kings Cross ARCHITECT John McAslan, 58, has designed a concourse at Kings Cross station which took 15 years to build at a cost of £400m. Described as a fundamental reconstruction of one of the thorniest logistical and architectural problems in London, his work has culminated in the [...]
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Battle For London Is On AND THE “WAR” for the title Mayor of London could well be a bitter one. At the time of writing, the present mayor, Boris Johnson, is in the lead in what is described as the closest ever race. Socialist Ken Livingstone is a mere two points behind. Although Livingstone has [...]



