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Kelly Rose Bradford: Why not anger appreciation week?

It is National Anger Awareness Week, which is surely very timely,given Christmas is the occasion when anger reaches epidemic proportions and we are all clinging precariously onto the tiniest scraps of our tethers. Read

Kelly Rose Bradford: Here's a tip - don't worry about it!

I have a confession to make: my house is a tip. My stairs have long since been utilised as some kind of ultra modern filing system - I've drawn the line at alphabetically labelling them, but each stair has a distinct pile of junk on it, mainly odds and ends that have no home anywhere else. Read

Riverwatch with Mort Smith

Mort Smith

Riverwatch: Des's painful memories

Des Davidson from Shepperton has contacted me about my description of the activities of the Upper Thames Patrol, a branch of the Home Guard during the Second World War that was given the responsibility of defending the locks, weirs and bridges on the river. Read

Riverwatch: How we defended the Thames from Hitler

Des Davidson from Shepperton has contacted me about my column describing the activities of the Upper Thames Patrol. Read

Boy Meets Girl

Vicki Eltis and Ed Saunt

Boy Meets Girl: All approaches appreciated?

Ed writes: As a dating columnist, I am constantly being handed opportunities to meet new acquaintances. Whether it be my friends trying to set me up or my fame-hungry mother trying to fix me a date, I’m rarely short of openings. Read

Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl: It's (credit) crunch time

Even the dating world is not immune to the credit crunch, as our intrepid daters Ed and Vicki discover. Read

A view from the house

A view from the House

We must fight for Parliamentary independence

These days, the defence of ‘privilege’ tends to look distinctly old-fashioned and out-of-place. Read

View From The House: We must fight for parliamentary independence

These days, the defence of 'privilege'tends to look distinctly oldfashioned and out-of-place. Read

A Postcard From Canada

Howard Nicholls

A Postcard from Canada: The last hurrah

Down to my last stamp, so here's a final Canadian postcard - a Tale of Two Cities, contrasting Summerland in B.C's Okanagan region with Vancouver, host city for the 2010 Winter Olympics, on the Pacific Northwest coast. Read

A Postcard from Canada: Theatre to warm the heart

This week Howard is charmed by an 80-year-old community theatre, discovers the plight of Vancouver's whales, and the aftermath of elections. Read

Legal Eagles

Legal Eagles

Legal Eagles: Probate and inheritance tax explained

Legal Eagles is produced by W Davies Solicitors of Woking. This week the team discuss probate and inheritance tax. Read

Legal Eagles: Where there's a Will

There are various ways to protect your family and estate on your death or in the event that you became mentally incapacitated. Read

Letters to the Editor

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Help cut down on children smoking

As many as one in six school children who are regular smokers usually buy their cigarettes from vending machines and the British Heart Foundation estimates that in 2006, more than 46,000 children got their cigarettes through vending machines in England and Wales. Read

Let's put an end to the greedy system

It seems a long time now since the turn of the new millennium, but many readers will still remember the Jubilee 2000 campaign which culminated that year. Read

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