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Profession? Northerner!

13th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time we looked at the early career of Jimmy Tarbuck. We noted his success hinged upon – or was at least boosted by – a cheeky-chappy persona, quick wit, smart suits and a mop-top [more…]

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The Crime Reporter, Part 2

13th April 2022 Going Postal 0

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 Swaling, Part Fifty Seven

29th May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

In the Sleescale constituency office of Major Sir Fergus McDee MP, I have read out from my Royal and Industrial Insurance Company notebook a list of names inscribed on a nearby mining tragedy memorial. I [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Six

22nd May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

My colleague Captain Davies and I are in the constituency office of wet Tory grandee Major Sir Fergus McDee MC MP. Three hundred miles to the south, former Prime Minister Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Five

15th May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and my colleague Natasha Williams are at our department’s private election night party at a packed and noisy Dolphin Square bistro. In the early hours of the tenth of June nineteen eighty-three, a colour [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Four

8th May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and my colleague Captain Davis are in the constituency office of Sleescale MP, Major Sir Fergus McDee MC. He is standing at the window facing into the room, eying us up. His secretary, Miss [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Three

1st May 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and Davies are sat in the local MPs surgery waiting room in Sleescale. In one of the better parts of the town, outside are cobbled streets where old gas lights stand redundant next to [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty Two

24th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and Davies were sat on a hilltop (the flat limestone pavement type) in our bivvys and sleeping bags, squashed together for warmth. We faced towards the coast. At the horizon, a flat sea was [more…]

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The Swaling, Part Fifty One

17th April 2021 Always Worth Saying 0

Myself and Davies are two dots in the landscape running along county roads from Sleescale to a neighbouring town. Occasionally, we take short cuts across farmer’s fields. The weather is cold. So cold that the [more…]

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