John Prescott

                   

Editor-At-Large: The BBC is the biggest joke of all. Bring back Brand

independent.co.uk
02-Nov-2008 606 related
        

The BBC is taking a firmer line on taste and decency, according to the trustees. If so, it can kiss goodbye to retaining its audience, because, whether the middle-class gentry likes it or not, everyday life in Britain is pretty...

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Kathryn Flett on television: Piping hot Dickens, nicely browned

guardian.co.uk
02-Nov-2008
        

What she watched:Little Dorrit BBC1Prescott: The Class System And Me BBC2In Love With Barbara BBC4Ah, excellent - the clocks go back, the world turns sepia, boilers burst, snow falls in October, candles randomly gutter... let's...

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Papers gripped by US elections

bbc.co.uk
02-Nov-2008
        

The US Presidential election gets a great deal of coverage in the Sunday newspapers. The Independent on Sunday is just one of the papers offering an extensive guide to election night - and highlights the key states to watch....

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Television: Little Dorrit, BBC1 In Love with Barbara, BBC4 Prescott: the Class System and Me,...

independent.co.uk
02-Nov-2008
        

'No BBC presenters here!" was chalked up on the blackboard outside my local café this week, archly reassuring people it was safe to come in. Well, it's the perfect time of year for a witch hunt. Or warlock hunt, if you like....

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Austerity style: Men of Britain, put down your hair gel

independent.co.uk
02-Nov-2008
        

What is the correct response to a sudden straitening of circumstances? More specifically, what is the manly response? Is it one final, hysterical, shop-till-you-drop sweep of the Selfridges menswear department, girlish tears...

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PN-GROVES AT BEAUMONT OZEN

panews.com
01-Nov-2008 1 related
        

KICKOFF TIME The Port Arthur News • Where: Durley Stadium, Beaumont • Records: PN-G 3-4, 1-4; Beaumont Ozen 1-6, 1-4 • Series: PN-Groves leads 6-1 • Last year: PN-G, 21-19 • Indians capsule: How agonizingly close coach Matt...

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Class act by a character out of Dickens

ft.com
01-Nov-2008
        

Claire Foy as Little Dorrit is near-perfect: pinched but cheerful, expecting little and joyous over the little she gets; an impossible being, but a fitting subject for the small screen, writes John Lloyd

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Alexander Chancellor on the Brand-Ross affair and John Prescott's, The Class System and Me

guardian.co.uk
31-Oct-2008
        

A point regularly made by people who think that the kerfuffle about Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross has been grossly overblown is that only older people are feeling outraged. The young, they say, can't imagine what all the fuss...

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Workshops target China

scotsman.com
31-Oct-2008
        

Published Date: 31 October 2008 ADVICE on how small Scottish companies can do business in China is being offered at a series of free workshops, which begin this afternoon in Edinburgh. Sir Richard Needham, deputy chairman of...

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Shared opinion

spectator.co.uk
30-Oct-2008
        

Obviously, the senior powers at the BBC should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. What a cock-up. What a failure of leadership. What a grubby betrayal of Reithian values. Is our licence fee really well spent on this gibbering...

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