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Lindy McDowell

This infatuation with our food is a recipe for disaster

Which is worse? Wolf stew? Or chicken goujons? Actor Liam Neeson has landed himself in the soup with the animal rights people after an interview in which he described how he'd wolfed down a couple of bowls of the former in order to get into character for a role in his latest action movie.

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Let's bring bad tenants and landlords to account

Thursday, 9 February 2012

Last week in this column I let rip at landlords who hold on to tenants' deposits even though, in many cases I've heard about, there has been no damage to the rental property.
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Melissa's tragic tale is just so inspiring

Thursday, 9 February 2012

There's a spate of road safety ads currently showing on television featuring families who have been directly affected - in the worst way possible - by the death and injury toll on our roads.
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How our schools are seeing red

Thursday, 2 February 2012

Bad news for the Smurf community ... a school in Essex is supplying pupils with a colour chart to advise them on which hair colours will be permitted in class.
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Will hope and history finally rhyme in 2012?

Thursday, 2 February 2012

One of the ways in which we have traditionally shielded ourselves from major disappointment in Northern Ireland has been by not getting too carried away in the first place.
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Time to stop rogue landlords ripping off tenants

Thursday, 2 February 2012

You know the way nobody has ever actually met the Yeti? Other phenomena we've seen little hard proof of over the years ...
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Jokes at expense of the vulnerable aren't clever and they're not funny

Thursday, 26 January 2012

The weather is bleak, recession is biting and the news headlines generally grim. Never mind folks - here's something that'll give you all a right laugh. Handicapped children. Vulnerable adults. Oh, what a hoot their disability is! Let's all gather round and have a good snigger ...
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Should Captain Coward be the only one in hot water?

Thursday, 26 January 2012

All of us would like to think that when faced with crisis and emergency we wouldn't accidentally fall into life's lifeboat. That we'd come up with the goods and do the heroic thing.
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Denise's capers are sobering experience

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Denise Welch is one of those "celebs" whose forays into the glossy mags is more often towards the "fighting her demons" section than the "looking stunning on the red carpet" pages.
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Peaches is blooming wonderful

Thursday, 19 January 2012

She's been in the headlines not always for the best of reasons. The wild partying. The crazy tattoos.
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Why it's time to give Derry Giant a decent burial

Thursday, 19 January 2012

A few months back I watched a truly outstanding Irish language film on the BBC (made by Ronin films) about Charles Byrne - the man they called The Irish Giant.
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It's carjackers, not women drivers, who should be locked up

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Like some malign virus, nothing spreads quicker in this place than any new form of criminal maggotry. In the last couple of weeks it's been carjacking, where unsuspecting motorists have been forced to hand over their vehicles to weapon-wielding thugs.
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No shame in dementia plot

Thursday, 12 January 2012

I haven't seen Meryl's Maggie yet. But the one aspect of the coverage of the movie The Iron Lady that intrigues me is not what it tells us about Thatcherism, the Falklands, the strikes (miners and hunger) the poll tax, milk snatching, back-stabbing or even a woman's place in politics ...
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Would AWT's defence get us out of the stew?

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Antony Worrall Thompson, celebrity shoplifter - now there's an unexpected item in the bagging area. Old AWT as he is more snappily known has been given a caution by the police after being caught five times in 16 recent days nicking stuff in his local Tesco.
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Fair play to Alasdair for straight talking

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Words you never imagine you would say ...
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Who will flash the plastic for new ops?

Thursday, 5 January 2012

One man described this week how he'd paid over 30 grand in order to gain two inches in height. The details of the operation were gruesome (look away now if you're squeamish). They involved breaking bones and stretching them with a medieval looking contraption.
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