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  Last updated: 11 Mar 2010 09:00

  Taxpayer-funded designer handbags at dawn

  THE nearer we get to the end of the phoney war and the commencement of genuine electoral hostilities so the stench of hypocrisy intensifies.

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  Published: 11 Mar 2010 09:00 (1)

  Leader: Great souls, even greater sacrifices

  SACRIFICE has been called the passion of great souls.

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  Last updated: 11 Mar 2010 08:00

  Martin Salter's Westminster Diary, March 11, 2010

  A little bit of history was made in Parliament this week, when both the Government and Opposition front benches were defeated by a large margin when backbench MPs of all parties...

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  Last updated: 4 Mar 2010 11:00

  Stop the barbarism and start the reform

  WHEN will we stop treating the NHS like some spoiled brat who must be indulged to the full to ensure all the toys don't disappear from the pram in some epic tantrum?

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  Published: 21st February, 2010 09:00am

  Letter: Haunted by shopper's attack on child

  by Correspondent

  I visited Reading this weekend with my two young children and we spent our last day enjoying a shop at The Oracle followed by lunch and a film.

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  Published: 18 Feb 2010 12:00

  Letter: Closing the lid on loo debate

  TRUE to form Woodley Liberal Democrats bring a whole new meaning to political opportunism when complaining about the new toilets being attached to the library.

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  Published: 18 Feb 2010 11:00

  Letter: Tories should lift foot off the peddle

  IT seems that Tories Rob Wilson and Alok Sharma will stop at nothing to run Reading and Britain down.

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  Published: 18 Feb 2010 08:00

  Letter: Keeping things in proportion

  I NOTE the comments of Rob Wilson on Gordon Brown's starkly political attempt to woo voters by dangling the proportional representation referendum carrot under their noses...

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  Last updated: 12 Feb 2010 13:28

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  Last updated: 10th March, 2010 09:00am

  You can bank on the irony

  by Alan Bunce

  Four different bank managers have told me the same thing in recent weeks.

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  Last updated: 18 Feb 2010 21:00

  Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, February 18, 2010

  MONETARY union via the Euro was always half-baked because it was never really a genuine economic union.

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  Last updated: 18 Feb 2010 13:42

  Sadly this war is just not cricket

  THE three years in which erstwhile defence secretary John Reid declared Britain would be happy to leave Afghanistan "without firing one shot" will soon become four.