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The secret we should all discuss

11:14am Friday 15th February 2013

LIBRARIES are great places to learn something new, as I found out the other week.

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Fortune favours the brave

10:53am Friday 8th February 2013

COUNCILS tend to be cautious organisations.

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Normal for the next generation

10:47am Friday 1st February 2013

LIFE isn’t full of surprises. For most of us, it’s full of routine, mainly linked to the task of earning our daily bread.

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Forging a union closer to home

11:19am Friday 25th January 2013

THIS week, the talk has been about whether or not we will stay in the European Union. I want to focus on a topic that’s a lot nearer home.

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Searching for an oasis of sanity

2:11pm Friday 18th January 2013

IBET a lot of people have a treasured tea service or a set of beautiful crystal glasses.

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America’s dream is a grim reality

10:24am Friday 11th January 2013

SO the US got to the edge of the fiscal cliff, didn’t like what it saw and moved a few steps back. We should all be relieved it did. If the world’s biggest economy had gone into recession, our own chance of recovery would have disappeared. Given its impact on the UK and the rest of the world, I’m surprised we didn’t see and read more about the deal done on Capitol Hill.

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Unsung heroes and honours

10:37am Friday 4th January 2013

IT’S not quite a call to abolish Christmas, but I suspect it will get me accused of sour grapes, cynicism or worse. But here goes.

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A pointless piece of research

10:28am Friday 21st December 2012

IT appears we have a new frontrunner in the race for the most pointless piece of research.

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Walking in the shoes of Sir Charles

10:22am Friday 14th December 2012

WHETHER it’s painting, music or theatre, great art can take us out of ourselves. For an hour or two, it lets us forget our day-to-day lives and think the impossible.

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Mr Osborne gives – and takes away

10:27am Friday 7th December 2012

EVERY penny of the £5bn capital investment announced by George Osborne is welcome. But I suspect that we will feel the impact of the cuts that will pay for them more quickly and more keenly than we’ll see the benefits.

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