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The view of the world from an eyrie in London's Fleet Street is somewhat different to one from a saloon bar in Mansfield. And it was to try to reconcile these radically opposing standpoints that John Michael Wade, a Fleet Street journalist, chronicled the strange world of 1985 and also set off on a journey across mainland Britain to record the changing aspects of the land as he and its inhabitants saw it in the Thatcher apogee. It was a world of contrast - from the rural shenanigans of a shepherds' meet in Cumbria to the metropolitan sleaze of the Derby at Epsom Downs. Towns that only long-distance lorry drivers and travelling soccer fanatics ever visit are here laid bare to display undiscov...
The ancient oaks of one of England's major forests had just about seen it all - wars, droughts, fires, floods, you name it, they've survived it. But how would they cope with a maverick golf club skipper, one Captain Mashie Niblick, intent on demolishing old dogmas and bringing in his New Model Army to put matters to rights? As it happened, the New Model Army turned out to be an Old Model Army, the bow and arrow brigade of one Robin the Hoodie who was keen on extending his domain from Sherwood to the back of beyond. In an age of mobile telephony and electronic tablets, the Outlaw was proven to be out of his depth. Niblick was not. As last man standing in the captaincy stakes Mashie Niblick st...
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