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A blast from the past. Don’t miss it
It's just days away on Saturday Aug 2. Get your diary out and make a plan. It'll be worth it....
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Anyone for tennis?
Two of them were betting on the Wimbledon final. The one whose barks and yelps favoured Jannik Sinner won...
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Money doesn’t grow on trees …
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Howie Burditt, our all-weather china
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Buckets full of bull
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Felicity Wood: Another legend gone
Harare, Zimbabwe Felicity Wood, a beacon in our contemporary history, has died after a long and fearful battle with cancer....
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Monkey business in Milton Park
Charlie, the young vervet monkey, was dead, heartlessly gunned down in the leafy Harare suburb of Milton Park. For about...
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Cocaine, Ukraine and the French
The French have found it necessary to deny that Monsieur Macron and his British and German buddies Starmer and Merz...
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So farewell then …
As the Jesuits used to say: Give us the boy and we'll keep the man, no matter his digressions in...
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