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Credit crunch brings cruelty to animals

They’re other victims of the credit crunch. Pets – particularly dogs – are being dumped because their cash-strapped owners can no longer afford to care for them. ANDREW BALDWIN reports Read

Denis: Policing library readers’ activities

NORFOLK county council is thinking of installing traffic style warning signs to stop anti-social behaviour in libraries. Read

The cry’s gone out to save our pubs

Chancellor Alistair Darling has been urged to announce measures aimed at saving pubs in his Pre-Budget Report today. But, as ANDREW BALDWIN reports, it’s too late for many Read

Denis: 2012 Olympics can be staged on shoestring

I HAVE been considering how Britain is to pay for the Olympic Games which are to be staged in 2012. Read

Denis: Still scrabbling around for gift ideas?

FORGET about expensive Christmas presents. Buy the one that everybody will welcome. That’s right, a Scrabble set. Read

Hilarie: Call of the wild

I KNEW there was a good reason why we’ve not been doing any gardening for the past couple of months. Read

All you gardening folk, don’t forget to follow our expert’s advice

This week’s jobs . . . Read

Hilarie: First among equals in family politics

SECONDBORN was cross that I’d put her name down to run a stall at the school’s Christmas fayre. Read

Graham Porter’s plant of the week, Nov 22

AS I sit typing this piece up I can almost watch the leaves of the field maple in my hedge change before my eyes. Read

Hilarie: Thanks to the gentleman

THIS is not one of those letters that people write to the editor to thank the person who helped them when they fell down outside Sainsbury’s. Read

Graham Porter looks ahead to gardening in 2009

The economic climate is certain to have an effect on the number of people visiting garden and flower shows and making spontaneous purchases Read

Denis: Road to traffic chaos!

I WAS thrilled when I bought a copy of the Irish Independent on a recent trip to Galway to find it came with a free DVD. Read

Denis: Strictly for fun - well isn’t it?

JOHN Sergeant will be tripping the light fantastic for the last time tomorrow evening on Strictly Come Dancing and sending the judges wild - with relief. Read

Senior moment: Chance for charity givers to flaunt their cash

Last week’s Children In Need appeal raised millions for worthy causes. But not every aspect of the fundraising effort went down well with Denby Dale’s RICHARD NICHOLLS. Here, the bookseller wonders whether the wealthy have lost the art of giving graciously Read

Denis: On the buses with a conductor

REG Varney, star of the 1970s TV comedy On The Buses, died this week. Read

Poetry and Yorkshire puds; Read Denis Kilcommons’s column

MY elegy to Yorkshire pudding brought a response. Sam Hinchliffe sent me this photo of a rather magnificent specimen and Brian Ferguson went all poetic. Read