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70The Parent Trap
(Guest Writer: Ashley Storrie) Mother’s in Spain at the moment, she’s under a lot of travel stress and asked if possible, could I write her Sunday column. I agreed of course and have wracked my...
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67The Dog Killer
Back in the 60s I was known locally as the dog killer. Before you get all humpty and start a furious dose of complaints, let me explain. My wee hometown of Shettleston wasn’t a middle class suburb; it was...
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65First warm day of spring
The first day of decent weather in Scotland is something to celebrate. This has been the first warm day since the harsh winter here in the UK and the first thing you notice is children. They are everywhere...
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75Sexual Abuse in the Military Bases
I read with horror that “A woman in the military is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq,” Representative Jane Harman, a Democrat from California, said at a...
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60Blank Space
I travel almost every week of the year, usually on aeroplanes and a myriad of public transport systems. For a short flight I pack a book, an iPod and my laptop so that I can work or listen to my favourite...
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60Safety and Kids
Last week in South London Oliver and Gillian Schonrock were warned by their kid’s school’s headmaster that they must not let their five year old and eight year old children cycle alone to school or he...
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59Raoul Moat, Legend?
If you missed the news coverage lately, I will bring you up to speed. Raoul Moat was an alleged wife-beating, child-harming, policeman-attacking, shotgun-wielding man who hid from the police recently and ended up shooting himself after an armed...
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59Guilty and Anonymous
Jon Venables, one of the killers of three year old Jamie Bulger has been jailed for two years after admitting downloading and distributing indecent images of children. Now 27, Venables was 10 when he and...
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58Nativity time in Secular Britain
Christmas brings out the best in people, but not the Christian support that the churches of the UK beg for. Britain is largely secular now; Christianity is no longer forced onto the youth as a ‘way of...
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59Mother's Day in the USA
My column this week is about mothers. I am in Atlanta, Georgia, as I write this article and we have Mother’s Day happening upon the nation. I already had a Mother’s Day back in March in the UK, so I...
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