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05/07/03
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL: I REMEMBER Alastair Campbell as a newspaper columnist (Echo, June 30). He took over as political editor of the Daily Mirror when Joe Haines retired. I twice had occasion to write to Joe Haines and received a nice reply each time. I
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Reasons to dislike Chelsea
APART from the fact that the dreadful Ken Bates has run the show for so long, among my reasons for disliking Chelsea FC is that they are supported by David Mellor and Tony Banks. The buffoon Banks has aired his views twice this week, first to support
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Opening the floodgates for disputes
WHEN you hear about neighbours at war, it usually involves boundary disputes. Either the two parties can't decide on who owns what, or one will have placed (or planted) something large where the other doesn't want it (usually Leylandii). I know I recently
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Court in the act
HENMANIA of another kind has erupted at our house. Not everyone has been pleased that tennis-playing Tim has torn the TV schedules to tatters all week in his forlorn bid to win at Wimbledon 2003 (BBC1-BBC2). As early as Saturday, an unsporting umpire
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Saturday night fervour
Old favourites from The Generation Game to Blind Date may have bitten the dust, but TV bosses are still struggling to keep viewers entertained on Saturday nights. In the summer of 2001, the then-ITV director of channels David Liddiment talked of a "once
