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Hilarie: Competition’s just champion

‘Last year we even held a Champion of the House tournament, where we played each other at everything from chess to American pool’ Read

We will remember

TOMORROW is the day when publicly at least, the nation will pay tribute to those who lost their lives in its service – and continue to do so – in conflicts around the world. Read

Hilarie: President’s pet pledge

I DO HOPE that President Obama has remembered that puppies are for life, not just for a l term of office. Read

Comment: Badge of dishonour

THE BLUE badge parking system is a boon to those who have difficulty getting about. Read

Wilf Lunn: The Jonathan and me story

IN June, 1993, I did a series with Fiona Armstrong and Jonathan Ross. Read

Wilf Lunn: This is real toilet humour

THERE are a lot of television advertisements aimed at women. One of them is for ladies worried about “slower lower digestive transit”. Read

Old is best in LBT show

MYTHICAL beasts are few and far between in Huddersfield, but Sheffield singer and all- round stage presence John Shuttleworth brought a little bit of ancient Greece to the LBT last night. Read

Denis: Why the US was ready for Obama

I’LL be honest. I didn’t think America would elect a black president. Read

Comment: Jobs’ gloom in the offing

SPARE a thought today for the workers at Greenberg Glass Emergency at Crosland Hill who have just lost their jobs – days after being told that they were safe. Read

Denis: Anyone seen my vest?

DON’T the young feel the cold? Read

Denis: Shaken but not stirred

WHAT is it with Daniel Craig? Read

Denis: By George, I’d rather have a woolly mammoth

THE world is going mad. Scientists say that before long, they could be able to clone extinct animals that have been frozen. Read

Comment: Just pass it on ...

DRAMATIC news yesterday as the Bank of England slashed interest rates to a 50 year low in a bid to rescue the country from economic gloom. Read

Search for the family’s Joes

‘A cramped and arduous journey 94 years ago, by train, ship and on foot to live in trenches on an open battlefield’ Read

Stephen Jackson: The voting’s over, so now for some US fast food!

HELLO everyone. As I write this week’s article it’s the end of two frantic years of electioneering in the US. All very exciting, wasn’t it? Read

Forum: Top stories on www.examiner.co.uk this week

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John Avison: Assistant didn't fade away

A COUPLE of weeks ago we were staying with relatives in Ireland. Read

John Avison: Soliders who pay with their lives

I WEAR my poppy with pride. I am amazed and grateful that each year thousands of young men and women join the armed forces to do the defending our freedom thing out there in a very unfriendly world. Read

Win a new look for Christmas - free competition

Time for glam in £700 make-over competition Read

John Avison: No pleasing folk

THEY always say it takes 10 Irish people to change a light bulb; one to put the new one in, the other nine to write sentimental folk songs about how good the old one was. Read

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