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WOULD you look at the man!” Maggie said. She wasn’t much to look at herself, being as black as sin from the coal dust. She’d just finished a shift at the colliery screens, picking lumps of coal out of

Movie magic I watched A Day to Remember after reading John Bird’s column [Issue 1697, 15-26 December]. Please say thank you to him. The movie had a depth and poignancy that I would have missed if he h

My only commandment is ‘Thou shalt not bore’

W hen 17-year-old Lily vanishes, it leaves her twin sister Abby, family and local community reeling. Twisty, six-part drama Girl Taken follows what happens when Lily returns five years later and the f

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