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A Bar With No Hats

Roy Kerridge Handsworth, Birmingham M ost people have an instinctive liking for their own kind' is a remark that is often heard nowadays. Well, all I can say is that 'most......

One Hundred Years Ago

There is, we fear, little ground for hoping that General Gordon is alive. The news of his death is not official; it is conceivable, although improbable, that he is defending the......