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Trouble At T'pit

Isabel Wolff confronts a vision of hell when she visits the coal-face of a Nottinghamshire mine `WHAT SHOULD I wear?' I asked the British Coal official who was arranging my......

Missing, Presumed Dead

Christopher Howse on how some illustrious corpses were finally rounded up for posterity WHY SHOULD anyone buy the latest volume in the ever-expanding Dictionary of National......