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Neglect to blame

Four years ago this week Fiona Pilkington, aged 38, killed herself and her disabled daughter by setting their car ablaze in a lay-by a few miles from their Barwell, Leicestershire, home.Read

Maureen Messent

Big Society..? Cameron's lost his nerve

REMEMBER Cameron’s Big Society, in which we were to adopt brotherhood and strive for a better world?Read

Currie no dish

LONG ago in Edwina Currie’s days as a city councillor here, a Birmingham Mail news editor reckoned she wouldn’t pass wind without ringing our picture desk for a photographer to record her flatulence.Read

Sally's got ex-factor

A PAIR of deluded women this week.Read

Honesty should be taken for granted

A COUPLE of 17-year-olds found a briefcase containing £5,000 in notes at a Bath, Somerset bus stop.Read

Vulgar spenders put to shame

CHRISTINA Aguilera (bottle-blonde, chisel-face, sings half-naked) spent £6,000 reserving half a first-class carriage for herself and her gofers to travel between London and Cardiff.Read

Maureen Messent

Far too many wrongs made of our 'rights'

IT’S been a Godsend for overseas scum, a lifeline for society’s criminal underbelly, as welcome as oil slicks to our shores.Read

Practice what you preach....

THE greatest pleasure of provincial newspapers is their ability to probe small-time but scrumptiously revealing dishonesties and misdeeds.Read

Maureen Messent

True love would be letting daughter die

LOVE’S cruelest outcome is loss.Read

Murdoch's millions can never bring Milly back

WE loved Milly Dowler, 13, who went missing as she travelled home from school and was later found murdered.Read

Good citizens? No, just snobs and prudes

Oh, how our little sexual hang-ups and snobberies mask themselves as good citizenship.Read

Maureen Messent

Concentrate on stopping the sticks and stones

I CAN’T say I’ll lose sleep over Birmingham’s schoolkids reportedly coming top of the class for “racial and homophobic” insults.Read

Shed no tears for the thugs like Raoul Moat

WHY have our police become public whipping-boys?Read

Fond farewell to a true racing legend

HE WAS – in his own words – a cantankerous old bugger, short on social graces and quick to deflate the pompous.Read

Fleeing the limelight

TALKING of the not-so-regal royals, scan all newspapers for the latest picture of the awful Fergie, Duchess of York.Read

A royal pair of bruisers

MY SOB-SISTERS were out in packs in last weekend’s papers lamenting “Zara’s heartbreak” at her new husband larking with a couple of nubile blondes in a New Zealand club.Read

'Gangsta' culture is alive and well in the UK

THE eloquent and playfully malicious historian David Starkey has fallen victim to kow-towing liberalism by deploring on Newsnight that rioting white youths were aping black gang culture.Read

Maureen Messent

Do we want our police - or not?

POLICE redundancy worries us. We need more coppers on the beat, their presence a criminal deterrent and balm to the law-abiding.Read

This ex-comic is not the Full Monty...

JOHN Cleese, vaguely remembered for Fawlty Towers and Monty Python, waits to reach Sydney before snitching on Britain.Read

Jessie's 'not so private' life

JESSIE Wallace, the EastEnders actress whose private life seems as picaresque as in Walford, allowed her husband-to-be to take horrid pictures of body parts best reserved for intimate moments.Read