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Plastic bags: would young shoppers really go green?
Originally published in the North Norfolk News, May 2008. Lightly proofread from the surviving column copy, with routine sign-offs or unrelated asides trimmed. The views, figures and circumstances are those of the period. IN February 2008, Gordon Brown set out to banish plastic bags forever by threatening action against the supermarkets that aren’t doing their…
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A year later, why I reconsidered going to university
Originally published in the North Norfolk News, August 2008. Lightly proofread from the surviving column copy, with routine sign-offs or unrelated asides trimmed. The views, figures and circumstances are those of the period. When I finished college a year ago I had the belief that I would be able to put my education behind me,…
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An alternative Norfolk bucket list
Originally published in the North Norfolk News, June 2009. Lightly proofread from the surviving column copy, with routine sign-offs or unrelated asides trimmed. The views, figures and circumstances are those of the period. Recently I caught a glimpse of a high-brow magazine which was running a feature entitled ‘ten things to do in Norfolk before…