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Maureen Messent

Why be embarrassed? Couple have hit passion jackpot

CONFRONTED by her 65-year-old father beating his chest in Alpha male mode to announce he’d impregnated his blind girlfriend 43 years his junior, daughter Kelly evicted the old ‘un from the housing association bungalow they shared in Birmingham.Read

Feeling let down by deluded womanhood

IN A week remembered as a female nadir, bottle-blonde slapper Denise Welch – drink and depression problems, over-whelming urge to flash breasts, a couple of alleged extra-marital flings – wins a reality show and announces her young son “will just have to put up with my antics”.Read

Year of Pretty Boy at Beeb

HAS the BBC designated 2012 as the Year of the Pretty Boy?Read

Made to pay for lifestyle

THE inevitable Housing Allowance, to be introduced next month, brought girly squawks from Ladywood’s Gabriella Sinclair who, at 21, has three young children and is currently on maternity leave from her job in a nursery kitchen.Read

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Suicide for a debt? Think of your child

IF THAT “eat or heat” mantra truly describes the plight of the woefully hard-up on benefits then our hearts go out to them.Read

Drama queen suffers too much for her art

FEW musings on their careers are as unintentionally hilarious as those evinced by the jobbing troupers whose names we can’t remember.Read

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Don't let the bereaved go through hell

A CLUTCH of mothers whose children died in Southampton General Hospital were told this week that their brains, removed after death for experimental work, have been found stored in an old cupboard.Read

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Perils of thinking in black and white!

DYSPEPTIC from festive overload, Britain implodes.Read

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Human rights brigade leaves Britain broke

NEW Year 2012, still the same old, same old.Read

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Thin, fat or fiery... ladies you did us proud in 2011

AH, THE ladies... what would we have done without their wisdom, finesse and charm in 2011?Read

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We are blessed to be a Christian country

HAVE you noted yet the worm in our seasonal Christian bud? Whenever David Cameron is seen across media channels calling for a return to traditional Christian values, he is followed by an atheist proclaiming that since there is no God there is no Christian tradition.Read

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Crocodile tears of publicity seekers

AT LAST comes some dignity at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, prying, preying and personal privacy.Read

It's just Jeremy's midlife crisis...

WELL done Jeremy Clarkson for pulling off a good ‘un and inciting 21,335 of the po-faced who don’t know they’re being sent up to complain of that jokey “I’d shoot the strikers”.Read

Question of animal organs

Young vegetarian Robyn Cairney’s life was saved when surgeons used a pig’s heart valve in a transplant procedure.Read

Fatal case of discourtesy

SIXTY-one-year-old university lecturer Brian Dudgeon walked free from a disgraceful attempt at prosecution this week.Read

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Is Blatter all that wrong..?

PUT ME right if I’ve got the picture wrong.Read

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They fought for right to forget

REMEMBERING our war dead is one thing. Wasting the Ministry of Defence’s time to explain why a Government Minister wasn’t wearing a poppy during a brief television interview verges on the barmy.Read

Maureen Messent

A desire to punish - not concern for the unborn

HOW satisfying their 40-day prayer vigil outside an abortion clinic must have been for those high-principled Birmingham rosary-rattlers.Read

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Freedom of Libya is turning sour already

GADDAFI’S death was brutal. Those Libyan freedom-fighters who first manhandled him from that drain, denied him time to prepare to meet his maker, then despatched him with a bullet to the head, revealed themselves as merciless.Read

A downer on Downton

Downton Abbey crumbles into farce.Read