Conservative women and pensions

Posted by on May 24, 2007 in updates | 17 comments I’m kicking myself that I shall be away next month when this important pension summit is held by the Conservative Women’s Organisation. It is such an important subject, one which fills me with dread if I think about it very long. In fact, I tend to shrug it off and leave to my husband to sort out because the fact is that I have very little pension to look forward to. I...
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The missing – Sarah Benford

Posted by on May 24, 2007 in updates | 3 comments Police have launched a murder hunt following the disappearance of Sarah Benford, even though her body has never been discovered. Her story was also re-enacted on Crimewatch. Sarah went missing from a children’s home in Northampton in April 2000, when she was 14 years old.  Her mother saw her in Kettering three days later but none of her family have seen or heard from her...
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Can journalists converse online too?

Posted by on May 24, 2007 in updates | 12 comments Continuous rail delays and a fire on the underground, followed by a snail’s pace taxi crawl in bumper to bumper rush hour traffic, meant that I arrived breathless and late and missed half the seminar on the politics of online journalism yesterday. The debate that I heard centered around whether quality mainstream journalists can write successfully online and...
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