A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 If you dropped a £20 note in the street, you wouldn’t expect the Government to give it you back. You’d just smoke Lambert and Butler and drink
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Trouble at Beelzebub Mansions. Whittaker, our wrinkled retainer and odd job man, has been pursuing a vendetta against the greengrocer in the village after being thrown out
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We recently carried a story about Essex Chronicle girl Kate Eshmade spending a day with the Territorial Army. She wasn’t the only hack from around the country who spent time in the company of the part-time soldiers at their Midlands
Bridget has a lot to answer for
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 That Bridget Jones woman has a lot to answer for. All over the country, women are whining on about their weight, their meaningless lives and the state
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 We men invest an awful lot of cash in a relationship. Apart from the costs incurred during the initial wooing (Babycham, cinema tickets and chips), it seems
Flesh – the politically-incorrect restaurant
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 I’ve decided to go into the restaurant business. Well everyone else is. Not a day passes without another poor sap sinking his life savings into a Polynesian-Irish
Where's that Trude when you need her?
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 We are told that a shortage of vets is causing a backlog of Foot and Mouth-infected animals waiting to be slaughtered. Well it’s time to mobilise the
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Seventeen primary school children in Brighton have made themselves ill after eating daffodils and were sent home clutching their stomachs in pain. Why should we put up
Pin money for the royals
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 Am I alone in wondering why all the fuss about Sophie Rhys-Jones wanting to earn a few bob? Let’s face it, she’s married to an inept Mummy’s
Make a packet from litigation
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 Declan Swan. It’s a name to strike fear and revulsion in the heart of every telly viewer. Declan Swan isn’t an IRA terrorist. He isn’t a dim-witted
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Perhaps you could give some thought to guiding your headline writers to avoid offending different racial groups with the use of such terms.” Now this is a
Barry's worry over the Welsh
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 Look out! The police are kicking the door down! I suppose it was to be expected. Once they’d decided to investigate the appalling Anne Robinson for making
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 The latest lucky recipient of the big cheque is Acting Chief Superintendent Anil Patani of Nottinghamshire Police. (Yes, he’s Asian, but I’d be saying the same about
Women – can't live with them, can't live without them
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 Women eh? Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Not until they invent oven chips that do the ironing, anyway. It was Mrs Beelzebub’s 40th birthday
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Then there’s their gullibility, not that such a trait is all bad. After all, how many trainee astronauts really frequent dodgy night clubs? But still. Another story
Hand-wringing over Selby
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 Remember when your child reached the age of two and you had to clear the house of any sharp or breakable objects that would be within a