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Richard Ingrams' Week
from The Independent 
"There has been delays," admitted Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, when he finally appeared in public on Channel 4 News to answer questions about the Sats marking scandal.
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THE OLD UN'S DIARY
IN RECENT weeks, keen allotment-holder Beverly Mussell was devastated to receive a letter demanding swift eviction from her plots on the Aldershot Road Allotment, Guildford, on the grounds that they are not up to standard. Mrs Mussell has been paying rent on one allotment for over 30 years and on the other for ten years. The council also claims that the plots were ‘mistakenly let by Guildford Allotment Society to Mrs Mussell’, and that the land is now required for affordable housing.
All those who know Mr and Mrs Mussell know them to be superb gardeners. Many believe that the council is exploiting the obligations on allotment-holders to keep paths clear and plots weed-free in order to reclaim the land.
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WEBSTER'S BLOG
The Oldie's technology correspondent keeps his own blog.
NEXT YEAR, the awful (and expensive) 0870 numbers will be outlawed - or severely curtailed - thanks to Ofcom. So it should come as no surprise that companies are looking for new ways to milk us through the telephone system. The latest effort is from eBay - who have just announced a text messaging system that will let you know when you have been outbid. It will cost you 12p to receive this text - most of which, I imagine, will go to eBay. What a rip off.
