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I had a burger once. It was served on a TRAIN. With wheels and windows and everything.

And, if you read the article, the allegations were first made about 77 years ago, when young Margaret Roberts was about 12 years old. Still, the episode no doubt taught her the benefit of covering up a scandal and how easily it could be done.

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And it's "fraarrrcus"

I knew an American called Gerald, pronounced with a hard G (as in "gubbins"). He wrote children's books, so was obviously engaged in some sort of conspiracy to undermine young people's understanding of English.

Do you not remember Glenda Jackson mispronouncing the 'erb as ORREG-ERNO in Sunday Bloody Sunday?

An Old Git replies ... Of course they can.

Powell's speech didn't happen until 1968.

Labour won the 1964 election because of a massive shift of opinion against the Tories. The Tory Prime Minister, Scottish laird Alec Douglas Home was seen as a throwback to a different age. Labour was seen as the modern party, committed to what Harold Wilson called "the white heat of the...

The constituency reverted to Labour in 1966 and it has remained Labour ever since.

He had a majority of 1,774, having increased the Tory vote by just 2.3% compared with the 1959 General Election. Patrick Gordon Walker' s vote fell by 12.1%, largely because the Liberals put up a candidate in a seat that they didn't contest in 1959. Griffiths won not because Smethwick was full...

I was living in the West Midlands at the time and remember the widespread revulsion at Griffiths and his nasty campaign. I don't believe he won because of the racism. It was more the fact that Patrick Gordon Walker wasn't a popular MP in Smethwick. Griffiths lost his seat in 1966.

No-one has mentioned the significant Sudanese community in Brighton and Hove, or the Coptic Christians.

But the incinerator has allowed Beddingham landfill site to be shut down and re-landscaped - vastly improving the views down the Ouse Valley.

The odd thing is that none of the questions are designed to draw out any inferences about class. I've not completed the questionnaire on the grounds that questionnaires are useless research tools for anyone who wants to do quality sociological research.

It's no problem at all getting to Mountfield Road from the east (or the town centre), even if the railway bridge is closed. Just drive along Friars Walk and Lansdown Place to the bottom of the Station Street hill, then cross into Southover Road, take the first left into Garden Street and then...

Nah. He was probably engaged in an armed robbery. If a chap can't park the getaway vehicle outside the shop, what is the world coming to?

The case for naming the person who has been arrested, at this stage in the enquiries, is that this encourages other victims (if there are any) to come forward to assist in the enquiry. "Innocent until proved guilty" isn't the only piece of public policy that matters.

I used to drive a pony and trap, and I don't recall any licensing requirements. Have things changed in recent years?

It's not as if the media ever refer to these guys as "former Brighton player, XXX" is it? It might be different if we were Dirty Leeds of course.