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Barry lives and works in Huddersfield. Born and bred in Ireland, he was a teacher for three years before taking up journalism. Barry's twin obsessions are politics and his rapidly-receding hairline. Read

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Denis Kilcommons

Denis, who lives in the Holme Valley, is the Examiner’s longest-running columnist and in a twice-weekly diary offers his unique observations and comment on life and the world as he sees it. Read

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Hilarie Stelfox

Hilarie was asked by the editor if she'd write a weekly column about family life - and occasionally comment on events in the news. Her children - aka Firstborn and Secondborn - have become wise to this and no longer tell her what they get up to. The Man-in-Charge, who married her before she became a columnist, is similarly tight-lipped. Fortunately the family has four extremely interesting cats and a rabbit. Read

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John Avison

John started working for the Examiner when teams of monks slaved with coloured pens and willow bark and hit deadline every three-and-a-half years. He is writing this from a geostationary space capsule by thought transferance. How times change. Read

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Keith Hellawell

Keith is the former West Yorkshire Chief Constable and was the Labour Government’s first-ever Drugs Tsar. He resigned in 2002 after four years in protest at the reclassification of cannabis from a Class B to a Class C substance. His weekly Examiner column is an often hard-hitting commentary on the issues that matter. Read

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Terry George

Terry owns bars and a nightclub in Leeds. He also publishes a gay lifestyle magazine. Terry lives in Stainland. Email him at terry@terrygeorge.co.uk Read