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Atherton Out?

Simon Barnes ENGLISH cricket's little boy is about to take his finger from the dyke. After a career of holding back the waters of destruction, it looks very much as if Michael......

Q. Problem: How To Give Money Without Causing Offence To

a poor, proud, but intellectually combative person? Solution: Deliver yourself of a flawed but challenging assertion like: big rivers in France are masculine so, le fleuve, le......

Q. I Am Preparing A Translation Into French Of Sir

Hubert Parry's majestic coronation anthem 'I Was Glad', so that my local choristers can sing it before Holy Mass on Sundays during term-time. The translation itself seems......

Q. I Am 48 Years Old. I Am Nearly Six

foot and weigh about ten stone, and have done for 25 years. I do not diet and my husband is happy with my bones. My problem is that when I go out people often comment with......

Q. I Share A Large House In Islington With Three

friends, and, as most of us are very busy, we are not keeping up to date with our cleaning duties. The obvious solution is to hire a cleaner, but when I raised the issue at a......