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'Deep clean plan must be start of year-round effort in Sandwell' - Your Letters and a snow day throwback picture of Bridgnorth kids in 1964

'Deep clean plan must be start of year-round effort in Sandwell' - Your Letters and a snow day throwback picture of Bridgnorth kids in 1964

One reader applauds Sandwell Council’s latest green initiative, urging that it marks the start of a wider, ongoing effort, and the need for energy...

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Tania Taylor

Mark Andrews: MPs contend with an outdated gym, Alf Garnett's mansion tax, and Rachel's troublesome Uncle Terry

Mark Andrews: MPs contend with an outdated gym, Alf Garnett's mansion tax, and Rachel's troublesome Uncle Terry

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news As if there is not enough wrong with this country at the moment, government minister and...

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Mark Andrews

A particularly miserable Budget, lockdown inquiry hindsight and David Cameron's cancer revelation: Toby Neal on politics

A particularly miserable Budget, lockdown inquiry hindsight and David Cameron's cancer revelation: Toby Neal on politics

Tax when you move, tax when you stop, tax on your house, tax on your job. Tax when you spend, tax when you save, tax in your life, tax in your...

29.11.2025 2

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Toby Neal

Mark Andrews: Mandelson takes a leak, the problem with Shabana's asylum plan, and why I favour building a town even more horrible than Milton Keynes

Mark Andrews: Mandelson takes a leak, the problem with Shabana's asylum plan, and why I favour building a town even more horrible than Milton Keynes

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In government, New Labour svengali Peter Mandelson had a reputation as being king of the leaks,...

22.11.2025 2

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Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Small boats v private jets, institutional bias at the BBC, and why the PM has copped a wrong 'un on police commissioners

Mark Andrews: Small boats v private jets, institutional bias at the BBC, and why the PM has copped a wrong 'un on police commissioners

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news "The people who do the most harm to this country are those who arrive by private jets, not small...

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Mark Andrews