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    What is Lineker’s role during these proceedings? He is found at a distance, watching these random people doing random things through field glasses, like a peeping Tom or a looker-on at a hunt, and adding vital commentary along the lines of: ‘Oh no, he’s dropped his egg.’ The
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    Just after Christmas I was standing in our woodshed when my wife appeared and told me our school was closing. It was a very small school, just 150 pupils, yet it was a special place. For 850 years it had educated the choristers who sing in Exeter Cathedral. As my wife read out
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    Everyone agrees that England’s special educational needs (SEND) system is broken. Earlier this year, the government said so itself. It argued that the current system does not "lead to better educational or life outcomes", "leaves too many families fighting for support", and that
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    Drumcree Parish Church on the outskirts of Portadown in County Armagh is what comes to mind when thinking of Winston Churchill's comment about the 'dreary steeples' of Northern Ireland. A drab Church of Ireland outpost on a hill, it was catapulted into global consciousness in
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    Vladimir Putin has not changed his war aims a jot since 2022 and remains determined on fighting on. Donald Trump has no new plan for peace other than bringing the Ukraine war to an end on Putin's terms. And Kyiv is running out of money and men to defend itself, just as surely as
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