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Neighbourly love, or war?
Do you get on well with your neighbours? Would you want to live next to them for 96 years? That is the extraordinary record of Alex Baker who has never left the two-up, two-down terraced house in Portsmouth where he was born. Being on bad terms with your neighbour...
Meet Sheila and her dream machine
Guest post by Sheila Rainger who I met at the auto blogging day last month. She prefers two wheels to four and rides a powerful Triumph Adventurer 900cc, she loves the "elegance" of it, and this is her story: There is a condition which affects 1...
Our booming population – what are the answers?
As China becomes increasingly wealthy, the country's nouveaux riches want to have larger families and are defying their government's "one couple, one child" family planning policy. 10% of wealthy couples and celebrities are having up to three children...
A walk with Grant Shapps this Sunday
It hopefully won't be long before Patricia Hewitt gets sacked as Health Secretary in a radical Cabinet shake-up after Tony Blair hands over to his successor. People up and down the country are campaigning to save their vital health services from savage cuts or...
My new social networking site
I have just signed up to a new social networking site aimed at communicators on the recommendation of the very highly esteemed Neville Hobson. It is being developed as a hot spot for journalists too. It is certainly unique and fills a niche. MyRagan.com was...
A disappointing night of decadence
If you heard that Rowan Pelling, the celebrated former editor of The Erotic Revue, was staging a Decadent Cabaret, what would you expect? I think others like me were hoping for something teasing and provocative, something splendid to the eye that was...
Much hard work still to do
Conservatives triumphantly snatched eight seats from the failing Lib Dems ( and one Independent) at the City of York Council - and narrowly missed a ninth . It was a great endorsement for Julian Sturdy, the parliamentary Conservative candidate for the...
Are you a psychopath?
Answer the following question to discover if you a psychopath, it is not a trick question: A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing. She believed him to be her dream guy so much, that she...
Will Gordon recycle landfill tax money back to Cambridgeshire?
Landfill tax increases of £8 per tonne a year could mean an extra £1.4 million of Cambridgeshire taxpayer's money ending up in Government coffers. Robert Sturdy MEP, who sits on the Environment Committee, is urging Gordon Brown to plough this extra money back...