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EAST OF ISLINGTON by Sam Taylor
The gas man cometh...

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HOUSE HUSBANDRY by Giles Wood
In which Mr Wood contrasts the modern boarding school experience with the rigours of the ancien regime

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VIRGINIA IRONSIDE: GRANNY ANNEXE
'I wonder whether now isn't the time to do drugs. I mean 'do' them rather than 'take' them

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SUPERBYWAYS by Webster
Fair shares

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WILFRED DE'ATH
On Esther Rantzen

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DR STUTTAFORD'S SURGERY
Urine colour and budget eating

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WHITEBOARD JUNGLE by Kate Sawyer
Better the Head you know

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GOD... with Melanie McDonagh

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MAMMON... with Margaret Dibben

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WORDS, WORDS, WORDS by Diarmaid O'Muirithe
Frogs of throat and pond

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UNWRECKED ENGLAND
Candida Lycett Green on the UK's unspoilt places. This month: The Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

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ROVING REPORTER by John Sweeney
Building bridges, a comparative study

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