As the vehicles accelerated into the small yard the Sergeant once again repeated the instruction “stay with someone the whole time.” We braked to a halt and immediately somebody shouted “they’re running.” Police officers jumped out of the van and began chasing around a dozen Albanian farm workers who were
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A few years ago my Hungarian girlfriend, (now wife) woke up needing a doctor. “How much will it cost?” she asked. I laughed at the preposterousness of the question. “This is Britain I said it doesn’t cost anything” But she persisted in asking for cash “Of course they don’t charge
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I put my hand into the rucksack and pulled out a metal object concealed in a sock. Before the thought “what’s this” had flashed through my mind I realised. “Gun” I yelled putting it down. I ran over to the youth who we had just pulled over for a ticket
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Amnesty International was set up with the laudable aim of encouraging members of the public to write to despotic governments on behalf of imprisoned political activists and I have been happy to support the active local branch for a number of years. Unfortunately as it got larger, and began employing
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Being an MP I am used to getting plenty of gentle, and not so gentle teasing about the “holidays” I get. In vain do I explain that the Parliamentary recess does not mean the MPs all go on holiday. Like most I have an office in the constituency and if
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It was the middle of a weekday afternoon in an urban shopping centre. Puffing away on ever present cigarettes and swigging from cans of strong lager, a group of youths in their late teens and early twenties lounge around watching the world go by. It could have been anywhere in
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