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COMMENT: The cost of lifting Sunday trade curbs

Have I missed something?

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COLUMN: We’ll all need to be very vigilant

‘I never knew it was like this. So much new development, so clean, and so much countryside.’

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COLUMN: Price to pay over party donations

This time, it’s been the Conservatives in the frame, with allegations of seeking large donations from rich people in return for favours. I’ve enjoyed the sport.

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Column: I'm delighted to see the PM batting for British defence industry

Back at the Foreign Office I used to receive great fat folders seeking my agreement on whether or not the UK should grant licences to our defence companies to export arms to other countries.

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COLUMN: Enough is enough, show some respect

Green Lanes, Whitebirk Industrial estate, Mosley Street, St Wilfrid’s playing fields, Feniscliffe, Lower Eccleshill Road.

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COLUMN: At last, our chance to reform Lords

THERE was one centenary which we all missed last year.

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Column: Contrived epidemic of whiplash

DO you know, Mr Straw, I very rarely see any patients wanting treatment for whiplash, a senior orthopaedic specialist told me last week, “but I see scores who want compensation for whiplash”.

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Column: An accident waiting to happen

At last, the back pages of our national newspapers have woken up.

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Column: Alcohol abuse now an epidemic

I’m not sure how many Blackburnians there are in Glasgow, but for sure there are plenty of Glaswegians in Blackburn.

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Column: The great genius of our constitutional monarchy

How about a ‘People’s President’, a popularly elected politician, in place of an hereditary monarch? We’re a democracy, after all. How is democracy compatible with the idea that our Head of State is...

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Comment: The game's up for dodgy insurers

I’ve just had the most ridiculous tussle with an insurance company – to save them money.

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Column: Clubs are part of the soul of their area

Britain is a free country. Sport should not be controlled by the state.

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Column: Nobody here can ever be above the law

Here’s something to be proud of, in addition to England’s performance (so far) in the Euro 2012 finals: the Leveson Inquiry into the press and politicians.

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Column: Going back to two-tier exams is a bad idea

ASK any of the thousands of young people across East Lancashire who have just taken their GCSE exams whether they’ve had an easy time, and they’ll look at you as though you’re mad.

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Column: Are there any silver linings from the latest banking scandal?

Are there any silver linings from the latest banking scandal?

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Column: Getting tough on career criminals does work

YOU, dear reader, may think that if the police catch more criminals, and they then serve longer prison sentences, fewer crimes are likely to be committed.

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Let’s hope we now see some humility

How the might have fallen.

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Accrington collapsed building stabilised

SCAFFOLDING has been put up to stabilise the remainder of a building which partially collapsed into the street.

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Column: Why I’m trying to protect town centres

The first television set I bought for our home in Blackburn, shortly after we’d moved in the mid-1980s, was from a store in the town centre.

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Column: Good to see Shebby fill the vacuum

I was on holiday last week and so missed the big Rovers meeting at King George’s Hall on Saturday addressed by Shebby Singh, the new “supremo” of the club. But plenty of my friends were, and I’ve read...

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