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Rotherham’s Brown Wall And Thin Blue Line

23rd August 2022 Always Worth Saying 3257 Comments

Previously in Oldham In July’s first part of Brown Wall, Blue Line we looked at Oldham. A report entitled Review into historic safeguarding practices in the borough of Oldham exposed a seedy underbelly of child [more…]

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Blue Line, Brown Wall

5th July 2022 Always Worth Saying 3346 Comments

Life in a Northern Town If this were the Whitechapel in the 1960s, retired dockers debating over pints of London Pride in the ‘Blind Beggar’ would glance nervously about while muttering under their breaths. Faces [more…]

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The Woman Reporter, Part One

21st April 2022 Going Postal 3176 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) No Half-Way For Ladies When I got my first job on a newspaper twenty-five years ago [more…]

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The Crime Reporter, Part 2

13th April 2022 Going Postal 3417 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) When people think of the crime reporter they associate him inevitably with the hurly-burly of Fleet [more…]

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The Crime Reporter, Part 1

6th April 2022 Going Postal 6254 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) As long as there have been newspapers there have been crime reporters. For crime is as [more…]

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